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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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. We chose the name Island because we want to encourage our consumers to kick back and take in the simple joy cannabis brings. 1- From our daughter.

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, January 28, 2008. Happy New Year 2008! Happy New Year to you, Cracking-the-code reader! and online gaming companies and 2/3 looking at the software and SaaS industry.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)

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Hiring a Freelancer? Here’s What That Means for Your Taxes

Up and Running

In 2008, 2.6 million people found themselves out of work due to mass layoffs and furloughs. As a result, the economic downturn gave rise to some of the largest companies in the world today: Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit, to name a few. In many ways, this trend was born out of necessity during the Great Recession.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective.

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. You named 3 in your post, but what are the 10 others? Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ► 2008. (11).

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An Austin Primer for Female Entrepreneurs— Follow These Leaders & Join These Groups

Austin Startup

Follow on: Twitter and Linkedin Dr. Oksana Malysheva | Managing Partner, SputnikATX Aside from having my favorite accelerator name (must be the Eastern European in me), Sputnik ATX and Dr. Malysheva have been the source of some of my favorite programming in the last 6 months. If you’re a female entrepreneur in Austin, this is a must-join.

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