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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results. Thanks to, Conure, LLC

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Gaming is Eating the World

VC Cafe

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. Second Life has been around since 2003, has over 30m registered users of which about 500k are active monthly. PubG alone has generated over $1 Billion in revenues in 2019.

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The Best Entrepreneurs Are Hyper Competitive & Hate Losing

Both Sides of the Table

Funnily enough I was at the Twiistup conference yesterday and I was chatting with an engineer whom I really like and he told me that he enjoyed reading this series but that now he wasn’t sure he was ready to see me because he wasn’t sure that he scored highly enough on all attributes. The list is getting quite long.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. In three month’s time, the team redesigned the site, introducing the queue, the rating system, and the recommendations engine all in support of Netflix being a subscription service.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). I do think there is a built-in level of inefficiency with offshore development.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

Theres an engineer currently looking at it, hopefully it (along with the email mock-up) should be back online within the hour. I think, if you can swing it, the first round of the core technology / IP should be developed by the founders. The engineers are currently working on it. Once wed got a tight mock-up wed won the battle.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Allot Communications -a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology. Asocs – Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiCommsâ„¢. processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks.

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