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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

2- Worked closely with our most active community members. We worked extremely closely with our most active community members to name Commaful. A name that our community helped choose and really reflects the people who use the site today! When I was focusing more on just the green part, I used Green And Profitable.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley

Steve Blank

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. … there was a time over the last 10 years where I started to refer to the startup community as the startup industrial complex.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. Kim and his co-founder, Theo Lee, did the formal market research—including a thorough investigation of Kickstarter. As Kim learned, segmentation can tailor marketing messages for small, loyal communities within a larger customer base.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Nancy D.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minteds community votes to tell us what to sell. However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals.

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Google Boulder’s Gift to NCWIT

Feld Thoughts

The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. While Scott and I don’t spend a lot of time together, we’ve both been part of the evolution of the Boulder startup community going back to the late 1990s.

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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

YoungUpstarts

BHAGs were established by management guru Jim Collins in his 1994 book “ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great) “ , co-authored with Stanford professor Jerry Porras. Reach $125 billion in sales by 2000.” It’s more costly for us to continue to be green, but we do it because we believe in it.