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35 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. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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David S. Rose – Father of Angel Investing in New York

Startup Professionals Musings

Rose, who has been described as "the Father of Angel Investing in New York" by Crain's New York Business, and a "world conquering entrepreneur" by BusinessWeek. The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking.

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Dean Vagnozzi on Commercial Real Estate Market Trends & Advice for Newcomers

The Startup Magazine

By 2001, he was invested in the stock market and witnessed a unique situation where the stock market was in a tumble and, simultaneously, real estate was going up. A perfect example of this is the American Dream Mall, which just opened in NJ, and the Nike’s new flagship store in New York City. Work with Dean Vagnozzi.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The New York Times, January 2001. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . That was all most people knew. But few could wait to learn more. Deprived of source material, journalists wrote articles about articles.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The New York Times, January 2001. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . That was all most people knew. But few could wait to learn more. Deprived of source material, journalists wrote articles about articles.

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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

Up and Running

million—than at any point since 2001. Generation or “Greatest Generation,” as Tom Brokaw coined them in his book of the same name, grew up during the Great Depression and went on to fight in World War II. That’s up from 89 percent five years ago and 85 percent ten years ago, reports the New York Times.

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RIP Len Fassler

Feld Thoughts

I still have the Brooks Brothers striped shirt that Len and his partner Jerry Poch gave me when we signed the documents for Feld Technologies to be bought by Sage Alerting Systems (which changed its name to Sage Technologies and then changed it to AmeriData). Under the terms, he signed his name. Len – I love you.

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