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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. As a financial planner, money was my stock in trade; however, I discovered true wealth was in good health and relationships. My family and friends helped me bounce ideas around, and when someone said it was a soft as butter – voila!

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) The way to getrich from a startup is to maximize the companys chances of succeeding,not to maximize the amount of stock you retain. The problem is, for the company to exist, you have todecide who the founders are, and how much stock they each have.

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Channel your Inner VC to Understand Startup Valuations

www.currentlyobsessed.com

i never thought about it like investing in stocks before. Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. You alluded to this in your post. joe heitzeberg Great point! That analogy works very well, thanks!

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Find Innovation 5 Times A Day

YoungUpstarts

At University, I had similar ventures and started a software company with a professor to teach stock traders virtually how to trade. More and more, my obsession and appreciation for voice over IP (VoIP) and hosted PBX grew. Through this journey, I created a hosted PBX system to run our communications systems.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. Look at what happened with Microsoft’s attempt to get the London Stock Exchange onto.NET – a total failure. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? IP Location Tools. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business.