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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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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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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

Up and Running

But, before they were big names, they were simply a team that needed additional money urgently to pay their website development firm. In 2003, Ben Luftman, fresh out of law school, started Luftman, Heck & Associates, LLP, with partner, Jeremy Heck. I used traditional methods of funding, namely bank loans, for the purchase.

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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. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012.

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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. July 18, 2012 10:15:01. July 18, 2012 10:20:12. July 18, 2012 10:26:22. July 18, 2012 10:36:46. July 18, 2012 10:52:20. July 18, 2012 11:14:22.

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Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Model: Not Just For Startups Any More

ReadWriteStart

Blank first started piecing together the concept in 2000 and created The Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2003. The Startup Owner’s Manual was published in 2012.Blank’s One of his students, Eric Ries, later wrote a book about the concept and named it The Lean Startup. The lean startup model is not new.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0 Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2012. He has lectured and consulted extensively for industry, academia, military, and intelligence communities.