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10 Classic Business Naming Mistakes

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Did anybody else notice when Disney had to completely redo its future themes because the year 2000 came and went? And have you met Peter Norton, founder of Norton Utilities? What if a fashion dies and your business is still around? Things named for bellbottom pants, or fax machines, or Y2K, for example. Misspellings. I hate that.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

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My founders and I started the company about three years ago. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. I really think of entrepreneurship as the chance to solve a problem.