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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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. Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing.

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5 Ways To Protect Your Startup From Copycats

YoungUpstarts

Put a Face With Your Company Name. Danielle Tate is a name change expert, on-camera personality, writer, author of a top rated Google newlywed blog and a bridal magazine contributor. Advice For The Young At Heart branding business strategy Danielle Tate intellectual property'

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. The concept of The Black Swan was popularized by the great Lebanese thinker and writer Nicholas Taleb in his bestseller of the same name. In the U.S. This is HARD. The answer is corporate culture.

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

www.inc.com

That was the thought behind Meebos decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. Instead, the takeaway message for recruiting is: play to your strengths (in Meebos case, its networking), be active, not passive, and get your name out there. So are referrals.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

As it is with most teenagers, the concept of intellectual property didn’t exactly dominate Fanning’s thinking at the time, although, in his defense, it is unlikely that he could have predicted how popular Napster would become — or how many people would try to sue him for copyright infringement.

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The Future is Better than You Think

Growthink Blog

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. The concept of The Black Swan was popularized by the great Lebanese thinker and writer Nicholas Taleb in his bestseller of the same name. Now except for the very fortunate few (see Google et al.

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