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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded. In 2008, while growing my employee benefits business, my mom took a fall at work that required shoulder surgery. In 2008, I had accumulated a large inventory of domain names and wanted to offer them for sale on my own website.

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6 Tips To Help Entrepreneurs Win And Grow A Strong Customer Base

YoungUpstarts

Jason and Peter were Lightspeed Summer Fellows in 2008. This made for some interesting phone calls from Mom’s in Indiana.”. I thought their idea was impossibly hard – mobile coupons. Why so challenging? For the first three years of their business, Gurwin said that he had his personal cell phone number in their App Store description.

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Startup Visa update

Startup Lessons Learned

He gave me the opportunity to answer questions about our proposal, and share the stories of immigrant entrepreneurs who are creating job all over America, including the Senators home state of Indiana.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

42:07) On how the 2008 financial crisis prepared banks for the pandemic. (44:25) And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. I have a family member back in Indiana and she's my aunt and she's been on a respirator for. Today is day 10. She's a fighter.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

2008 FOLIO Award Winners. FOLIO: Staff. --> Suppliers. Webinars Events. Industry Events. MediaNext 2012. E-Media Summit -->. 2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! 2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Digital Magazines. -->. AddThis Bookmark Button END -->. ADVERTISEMENT. ); ); ); Home » emedia and Technology. Trade Show.

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Justin Bieber: Incredible Teen Entrepreneur

Growthink Blog

Like this one that he posted on YouTube in February 2008: So, let's recap where we've been. I mean, this is a star talent that has impressed the likes of Usher, and he's doing small shows at middle schools in urban Indiana. And then, realizing that he could get serious exposure, he started putting videos of himself on YouTube.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel.