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15 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. When brainstorming a name for a new venture, zero in on the promise you want to make to your customers. 1 – Modern Warriors.

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Consistent Revenue Growth At Core Of Google’s Mobile Advertising Strategy: TBR

YoungUpstarts

Google’s gross and operating margins improved sequentially in 4Q14, and even as they continue to be lower than when desktop search advertising was at its peak in 2011 and early 2012, TBR believes margin growth is of lesser importance to Google than consistently growing total revenue and gross profit between 10% and 15% year-to-year each quarter.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. I recently read this anecdote in the press (withholding company name because I actually really love the concept). It seemed to be purely speculative.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Both Sides of the Table

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. Prices have definitely gone up in 2011 as depicted in the anecdotal chart below. Why you shouldn’t stack too many brand names into a round. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

4: Zipline (2011). Zipline provides vital, on demand delivery for the world. Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. 5: Scopely (2011). Techstars Ventures 2009 invested in the angel debt round in 2011. 6: Outreach (2011). 6: Outreach (2011). 7: R emitly (2011).

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

ReadWriteStart

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. Girish and his team are former Zoho employees and bring to their entrepreneurial efforts the perspective and learnings of Zoho, which has been successful in drastically undercutting high-end competitors in a major market, namely CRM, the office suite, and so on. At 11 a.m.,

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

At the time, a company called Network Solutions was essentially the only place from which people could register domain names. In 2011, 65% of the company was sold to a group of private equity firms for approximately $2.25 Father Knows Best GoDaddy is a familiar name on the Internet and with good reason.