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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In 2008, while growing my employee benefits business, my mom took a fall at work that required shoulder surgery. Little did I know that the simple and cathartic act of writing would lead me to become not only an author of several more books, but also a nationally syndicated radio host and patient safety speaker and trainer.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). At the end of the day Kayak’s playing a key role in the online travel process, but it appears more of the revenue comes from filling top of the conversion funnel rather than the middle or bottom of it. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million.

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Seven Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Website

crowdSPRING Blog

Perhaps your site’s ecommerce performance isn’t up to expectations, or you’re not getting as many conversions you’d like. You use A/B testing to determine if a change or addition will improve conversions. A redesign or revamp might be the thing you need to fix these issues. This isn’t the case, however.

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How to find a good programmer or web developer

www.peterdrew.net

there is the 7 day full functioning Free trial so you can test it again at any time mate It costs me a lot of money to provide this for free for 7 days to people, though the conversion from free trial to full membership is great, so makes it worthwhile etc. Its easy to test it again to see this for yourself. Best of luck mate.

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Stories and Guidance for Non-Technical MBA Founders

Rob Go

Below is an interview I did with one such entrepreneur (thanks for our friends and OpenView for helping with the filming and syndication). Jason is a Babson MBA , and was previously an executive recruiter before starting the company in May 2008 (yes, one of the worst times to start a company).

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. Conversely I offered the same deal to another entrepreneur who decided to shop around longer. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. In 2008, and 2009, we were really starting to grow. They’ve come light years from there, that’s for sure. It was a huge piece of the puzzle for us.