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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. My company name is 3 Leaf Tea. The name is from when tea leaves get picked there’s often one two or three leaves and a bud.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. And it may work. Dot Com Boom to Bust.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

consumer companies were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly – namely images and video. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

Another important project was launched in 1999 at the UC Berkeley which has arguably become the most famous example of the volunteer computing model — the SETI@home program (if there’s a “@home” suffix in the name of a project it means that it involves exclusively home computers).

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. million in 2004 to $6.5 image source.

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How To Develop Your Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. million in 2004 to $6.5 image source.

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