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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up with Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

2- Personal inspiration Photo Credit: Terina Nicole I launched my business 23 years ago in the year 2000. When we heard this, it totally clicked for us as to what we’re trying to solve- that leaky bucket of churn that people become aware of way too late, and can’t be solved by just increasing new business. We wanted to say no to Tingo!

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To Infinity and Beyond: How Entrepreneurism is Making Space Tourism Viable

YoungUpstarts

The early 2000’s was also when the likes of legendary serial entrepreneurs Musk, Branson, and Jeff Bezos founded their own space tourism companies. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Anderson, and Mike McDowell charged a wealthy Californian $20 million for eight days of space orbit. Named after Alan B.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.).

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

My first LLC was a very generic business sounding name – 24-7 Creative Solutions. Thanks to Julie Rustad, Julie Originals LLC. #4 Another reason was because when I started my business it was 2000, and people used the phone more, I wanted something short and sweet I could say while answering the phone all day.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Jake Geleerd, President and Chief Operating Officer, Ocean Tomo, LLC. Prior to joining Ocean Tomo, Mr. Geleerd was President and CEO of Terrapin Properties, LLC, one of Chicago’s leading real estate firms as well as one of Chicago’s largest and most active private companies. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Joe Battisto, Haven Environmental LLC ! #6 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! Thanks to Melissa Bruno, Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC. #10 6 – To Inspire Moms.