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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I’ve been a member of the North Face global athlete team for over 10 years. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test. It was 2004 and my wife and I were in New York.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. It became a global news story – yet still nothing has changed. The truth is the mixed economy model is what has provided the greatest distribution of wealth the world has ever seen. But when the web 2.0 Bust our own myths.