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25 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. These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. 3- Name description.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

They also need to decide whether to structure terms as an equity deal or a convertible security deal. “If you’re going to raise $1 million, my advice is to propose a convertible security, because you can get it done quickly and less expensively,” said Schmitz. Convertible Securities.

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What Recent Data Breaches Signal to Nonprofit Organizations

Board Effect

They remain concerned about the leakage of accounts that contained names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial information, medical data, health insurance information, and other government identification. Management security means that organizations need to manage cyber risks by implementing various controls.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

That story is how you recruit employees, convince customers to give you a shot, and secure funding. Six years later, in 1886, her parents called upon Anne Sullivan, an experienced teacher of the blind, to help a seven-year old Helen learn to communicate in terms of names and letters.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. Implications of Secure Search Decision.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Note to Chinese Communist party – the best name for your propaganda department should probably not be the “Propaganda Department.”). (They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) It’s an amazing cat and mouse system.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. It's kind of like whoever discovered penicillin, you don't need to know their name. And all the security and backups were being kind of managed by this company. You can't even know everyone's name.

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