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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. 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

Michael’s view (full details in the video) is that right now there often aren’t multiple buyers for consumer Internet companies and prices often aren’t what people hope for going into the process. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth! But when the web 2.0