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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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. After a quick google it became clear that this was the name for our new agency. 2- A name that came to my mind. 1- Suggested by a friend.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

There are folks who dont like me, or who are annoyed by me, but if Id broken somebodys trust in regard to their work, I guarantee itd be just about the first thing youd find when you Google my name. However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. Ideas are cheap.

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The Best Entrepreneurs Are Hyper Competitive & Hate Losing

Both Sides of the Table

I ran a marathon with my colleague in 2003 – I’m still bummed that he beat me even though he was clearly more athletic. We were once looking at a very hot market segment (which I can’t name or the people I’m speaking about will be obvious). If you’re way better than me, I’m probably not playing.

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How to Protect Your Small Business When Advertising Sales and Discounts [Part 2]

Up and Running

However, another piece of legislation, the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, requires that your privacy policy on your website must outline: The types of data gathered, How the data may be shared with other parties, The process your customer can follow to review and make changes to the data you have on them, and.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. We were all at each other’s weddings, brit milah / baby namings and unfortunately a funeral. They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Back in 2003, a full four years before the debut of the iPhone, a young product manager at the BBC, Alex Pressland, had just finished leading a product effort that enabled the BBC to be one of the first media companies in the world to syndicate content. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

Then came the second wave with Skype (2003), Blackberry Messenger (2005), and Google’s first incarnation of its messaging app, Google Talk (2005). first name and last name, photo, twitter handle, etc.). At Segment , for example, they’ve set up a bot that can identify what companies anonymous visitors work at based on IP address.