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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. And what about picking a name that’s available as a domain? Obsessing over a name is an easy time trap to fall into when you should be focused on more important obstacles (i.e. Apr 27 2010. 27 Apr 10.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. The mantra was as follows: “no one is coming to save us, we are going to make it on our own&#.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. Again, it comes back to that point of if your numbers don’t quite match, a lot of us know where we’re weak. Jonathan: Yeah, that’s right.

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How to Get the Most Out of a Sample Business Plan

Up and Running

Mistake 1: Looking for a sample plan that’s an exact match. It really doesn’t matter if it’s an exact match in this case. Look for a sample plan that’s a relatively close match, but don’t get hung up on the details. Let’s say you’re opening a Pakistani restaurant. Mistake 2: Assuming the sample is perfect. Form follows function.

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Transcript of The Power of Little Ideas

Duct Tape Marketing

That kind of innovation matters, but it’s pretty rare and I think an improvement, a new way, the definition I like is a new match between a solution and a need. They know my name. Could you leave an honest review on iTunes? Your ratings and reviews really help and I promise, I read each and every one.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

Since so many distinguished people report a broad variety of qualitative bubble signs, let’s attempt to pattern match the quantitative data. Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. It’s the valuation:value ratio. Much better.

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The Complete Guide to Writing Product Descriptions That Convert

ConversionXL

Early on, Mark Zuckerberg described Facebook as , “Something where you can type someone’s name and find out a bunch of information about them.” This input-output pair matches our intuition about how software works. You can also do it, As Joanna Wiebe suggested, by scouring authentic customer reviews.

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