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Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

YoungUpstarts

Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. They set about registering an internet domain name and preparing for the release of a Beta version of their app later that year.

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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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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

July 18, 2012 by Chris Taylor. But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. The company helped Google improve its mobile advertising solutions. Like Tweet.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

Friday, August 31st, 2012. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Ressi, Wilson Sonsini and a top-tier accounting firm (which preferred not to be named) have been working on developing this set of documents for some time now, says Ressi. Advertise Here. Advertise Here. Disrupt SF 2012.

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Getting Better At Email

YoungUpstarts

To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. She was named Adweek Media’s “Publishing Executive of the Year” in 2009. The rest is just digital noise.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

On November 28, 2012. A name like 500 Startups says it all. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. PandoDigest. Share on Twitter. Share on Facebook. Share on LinkedIn. The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? By Sarah Lacy. Open Sesame! (A ” - MC.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Update March 2012: See also my expanded critique of Colin Wheildon’s legibility research. In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Alex Poole says: March 8, 2012 at 4:50 pm. ← How do people find and recognise browser bookmarks?