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20 years ago Raj and I started a little company together in our dorm room…

Jeff Hilimire

Fast-forward a few years later and I followed her to Charlotte, her attending Davidson College and me at UNC-Charlotte. It was there that I was placed with a roommate named Raj Choudhury , a skinny British kid who was immediately the most interesting person I had ever met. Raj, thanks for everything. Love you, buddy.

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20 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 came up with our product name before our company name. The name had to be easily pronounceable, obviously spelled, and unambiguous.

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

Chapter 4: Brand Identity Design: the Building Blocks of Your Brand Identity. Chapter 5: Designing Your Brand Identity. Put another way: a designer’s job isn’t to design a brand. Designers design the brand identity (explained in Chapter 5 ). Chapter 2: Creating Your Brand Strategy. style guide.

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12 Tips To Leading Your Best Life (3/12)

Jeff Hilimire

But before we jump into it, make sure you saw my first two tips: #1 – Have a long-term focus #2 – Dream big, but start small (the 48in48 story) Storytime Once upon a time, in a land not-so-faraway, Raj Choudhury and I started a little web design business in the dorm room at UNC-Charlotte.

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Remembering old times

Jeff Hilimire

Last week I was straightening up my home office and I noticed an old business card from my very first company, NBN Designs, tacked to the wall. Rent was $1,000/month and it was oddly designed and loud from the fitness center’s aerobic classes and it was hard to find and…it was glorious. So I swung in and checked it out.

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How to pivot away $34m: Israel’s Xeround shuts it doors with a lesson

The Next Web

When they realized this direction wasn’t getting them anywhere, they pivoted, choosing to focus on designing databases geared toward handling large information loads with fast response times and high survivability (Real Time Carrier Grade Telco Database). Xeround was out of their element.” a source close to Xeround told Newsgeek.

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