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

YoungUpstarts

Google is focused on expanding its already broad reach into the advertising market by increasing the span and coverage of its digital and mobile platforms, and the company’s 4Q14 results highlight how the company’s efforts to buttress its core services is paying off: Google’s revenue and gross profit climbed 15.3% billion and generated $4.1

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.” Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. Naval Nuclear Power Program.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. And what about picking a name that’s available as a domain? Obsessing over a name is an easy time trap to fall into when you should be focused on more important obstacles (i.e. Apr 27 2010. Ty Fujimura.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I couldn’t resist, so I put my name in the hat. you might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company. I saw a posting on the Women 2.0 I had won. Logo and icon are very important.

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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. million post-money valuation with no revenue. Why you shouldn’t stack too many brand names into a round.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I couldn’t resist, so I put my name in the hat. You might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company. I saw a posting on the Women 2.0 I had won. Ipad users willing to pay 5-10 per app.