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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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The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Start a Business in for 2016

Up and Running

Charlotte, NC. Coming in at number seven overall, Charlotte also ranks as the second best city after Grand Rapids when it comes to growth in number of small businesses. If you are interested in starting a business in Charlotte, check out these resources: Charlotte Business Resources: Starting a Business. Springfield, MO.

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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

Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. But branding isn’t solely about tangible concepts like a company’s name and logo. It directly affects your ability to sell, to fundraise, to hire the best employees, and to grow.

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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. We had to make this work.

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Remembering old times

Jeff Hilimire

And then this past weekend I was out in Snellville and realized I was about to drive past our first official office (the first “office” was our dorm room at UNC-Charlotte and our second “office” was my mother’s basement.) The original name of our company was NBN Designs. 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

Charlotte Yarkoni – a senior exec at Amdocs, was asked to take over as CEO, and see if she could turn Xeround into a sort of ‘mini Amdocs’. “You don’t need an MBA to realize that this sort of business model wasn’t going to work” “Nothing ever filtered down properly to the operational employees.

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