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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In 2011, our family was sitting around the dinner table brainstorming when our teenage daughter Mia had a great idea – starting a company that sells the best possible organic roasted seaweed in delicious flavors. My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded. 1- From our daughter.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

This directory was created by New York-based digital agency Kettle , “because it’s easier for Indiana Jones to recover the Sankara Stones than for someone with an idea for an app to find a decent app developer,&# according to the site’s creators. Office for Mac 2011 Delivers the Good.

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Recruiting and Retention for Women in STEM

Women Entrepreneurs Can

In 2011, Catalyst, a non-profit that aims to create more equitable workplaces for women, released a report that showed that even when women did “all the right things” including using self-help books, participating in mentorships, and networking with leaders, their actual advancement still fell short of their male counterparts.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. Comcast Corp., and Verizon Communications Inc. But the company began to struggle after its relationship with Yahoo Inc. Of the 6,613 U.S.-based