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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

EightSixtySouth is the rebrand of Post+Beam, an innovation and communication agency that opened over 10 years ago in New York. When the decision was made to rebrand during the acquisition, I called on my team to determine what our new identity was going to be going forward. It was 2004 and my wife and I were in New York.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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Scaling up: Gerson Lehrman Group Announces Bloomberg Partnership

VC Cafe

From now you, Bloomberg users can discover GLG council members, view profiles of select experts, request phone consultations, access news commentary and participate in events, including live meetings, teleconferences and webcasts. This is a huge distribution deal for GLG, and it may very well take the company to the next level.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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How to Run Effective Online Sweepstakes Campaigns

ConversionXL

For example: in New York one must bond prizes valued above $5000. Appsumo is an daily deals website for the coolest web apps and other digitally distributed goods. This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. I saw the product recently in New York and loved it.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. The Real Paid PAID Vacation Policy. 3 hours ago. 5 hours ago.