Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

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. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A lifelong entrepreneur, Jason has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list and was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Midwest. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and The Economic Club of Chicago. Partner feedback is so important. Jason (09:14): It has to be guided.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

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. Coming up with our business name, Stellar Villa, was quite a process. This allowed us to knock a few more names off the list.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2023

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, naming your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Stephanie and I wanted to incorporate different elements and symbols of leadership in our business name. 2- Conventional sounding name.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. If a domain name is critical to a brand and the domain is not empty, the best course may be to find a new name. If someone violates the trademark by using a certain domain name, the startup could make claim in court.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Can you partner with other companies to reach new markets? Keep innovating and one day you will turn around and find that your success at being a disrupter the marketplace has turned your company name into a household name. Then as you get closer to your MVP, you’ll gain a better understanding of your own product and market.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It only seemed logical for Akos and his partners to bring this concept to the US. He opened the first of many PanIQ Escape Rooms in Hollywood, California, and today, they have locations in San Jose, Phoenix, Miami, NYC, Dallas, Nashville, Chicago and many more. How did you come up with your business name?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Henry Sy, the guy behind the world-famous SM Malls, is a household name in the Philippines. He has also been named CEO of the Shark Group, a brand consultancy firm. He envisioned a means for long-distance partners and team members to stay in touch when he founded the audio-visual cloud conferencing platform Zoom in 2011.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

News )—Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School, UPenn Wharton, Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, Kellogg, UC Berkeley Haas, and Columbia Business School—and eight of the top ten global MBA programs , are all on the list of unicorns. Unsurprisingly, software, consumer internet, and e-commerce companies make up the significant majority of MBA unicorns.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Our members value this additional benefit as they consider us as their accountability partners and feel comfortable asking questions they may otherwise hesitate to ask someone else. Thanks to Jeremy Cross, Team Building Chicago ! #7- There is no pressure to attend. Thanks to Sumeit Aggarwal, Finhive ! #4- Photo Credit: Douglas Dedrick.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

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 asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they came up with their business name. #1- 1- Suggestive and evocative name.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. The Happenstance app shares geolocated and little-known mini-podcasts about Chicago! Today The Startup Magazine features a Top 3 Exhibitor winner, Happenstance.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

We are so proud to be a part of the entrepreneurial and technology community in Chicago where we are based. 5 Must-Use Tools for Brainstorming Company Names – crowdspring.co/1wehUO7. The @crowdSPRING community partners with US State Dept for Social Impact | Justmeans – crowdspring.co/1ux55RH. Fewer bosses. 10baTD3.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Of partner? It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). call the companies that are doing well but not yet household names. Picking a VC is hard. Reputation of firm? Deals done in your industry?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

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. 1- Name representing a docking station. Once I had a name, CompareNewTyres, I then checked social media and web domains.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

The right company and colleagues are better than the perfect title, role or brand name. I found out he had a trip scheduled to Chicago. I sent him a message telling him I’d be in Chicago on such-and-such dates. I technically WOULD be in Chicago. I left Accenture a year before making Partner. Find your tribes.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. The Breathing Festival and the ICFB are my first global partnerships but I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2010 when I started my Around Chicago LIVE!

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 8, 2014

My name is Richard Simms and, I am a Cofounder of Tech Talent South. We actually met taking some web development classes in Chicago. I was doing an early-stage startup in Chicago and Betsy was running a physical product development company in Charlotte that she’d recently sold. Who are you and what do you do?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

Plus, people are just more likely to abide by an agreement if they’ve signed their name to it. Legendary basketball coach Phil Jackson once held a Chicago Bulls practice in the dark. But if you want your employees to be partners, you’ve got to reinforce them when they act like partners. Let only “Boy Scouts” lead.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2010

I generally try not to stalk people I don’t know when they announce they’re in town, but as a fellow VC (and a partner in Southern California’s largest fund), I felt we had a legitimate reason to connect. This was obviously more open than my Palo Alto Tweet because I actually named the location.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

Aristotle Loumis was born in Greece and grew up in Chicago, one of 8 children raised by a single parent. Aristotle still splits time between, Greece, Iowa, and Chicago, and refers to himself as “Greek born, city raised, and corn fed.” The name Ellison is a play on the Greek word for the sun, “Elios”. “Who Tell us your story.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

So read on and be inspired… At 30 Years of Age, Tianyi Joe Zhu, Chicago Entrepreneur, Named Amongst the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (PRWEB) JULY 12, 2017. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

Plus, people are just more likely to abide by an agreement if they’ve signed their name to it. Legendary basketball coach Phil Jackson once held a Chicago Bulls practice in the dark. But if you want your employees to be partners, you’ve got to reinforce them when they act like partners. Let only “Boy Scouts” lead.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2020

To tackle these issue in Chicago, I participate in networking groups and events that primarily attract men, such as CEO Roundtable, to represent successful businesswomen, create awareness to men in being allies to women in their respective roles, and to open the opportunity for other women to join like groups. Photo Credit: Nikola Roza.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. Before Giftly, Dan was a Booth Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2018

It all begins with Ronald Coase at the University of Chicago, Laureate for the 1991 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (yes, it does have a cool sounding official name). By: Joe Merrill, Partner at Sputnik ATX. Now go out and make Ronald Coase proud: start lowering those transaction costs crypto entrepreneurs!

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

As someone who owns eight successful daycares in the Chicago area, I know the strategies and approaches that work when it comes to developing a sound business plan for a daycare center. What are the details of your ownership structure, board of directors, investor list, partners, and so on? What’s your curriculum based on?

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association/Dow Jones VentureSource, the VC industry is dominated by men (89% of VC Partners), specifically white men (76% of the total). Of all VC Partners studied, just 10% identified as Asian, 1% as African-American, and less than 1% as Latino.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

by Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. Omaha is rising in prominence among entrepreneurs and investors, making a name for itself in a more broad and diverse range of industries than in previous years. Here’s a word association game: what do you think of when you hear “Omaha, Nebraska”?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. You’re two guys in a garage, two guys across campus trying to make a name for yourself. I finally got transferred, and the move to France, we had three tech centers around the world.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

She has been named one of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women every year since the list’s inception. We didn't have the big name. Basically we set out quarterly goals for when we're going to open offices, and we said, okay, Q one, San Francisco, Q two Atlanta, Q three, Washington, DC Q four Chicago. powered by

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

You got my last name right on the first try, which not everyone does. That it wasn’t just like here’s somebody we can give some money to and put our name on. Are you able in a sort of platform approach if you will, are you able to kind of really go deep enough to know who the two players are that you’re partnering?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

Names like Sun and Cornell (ironically, given the new tech campus) were brought in to try and tech-ify NYC's downtown area. Companies can't find the partners and employees they need. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". This also goes for lawyers and teachers, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen. Sydney Gressel : My name is Sydney Gressel, and I'm a nurse at UCSF in the Benioff Children's Hospital in the pediatric emergency department. Ryan Sarver : My name is Ryan Sarver.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. We would name our sales intelligence company Vainu. So as a result, out of the basement of my house with NO money and only a hand-me-down laptop, cell phone, and borrowed internet connection from my neighbor, my business partner and I created Quality Logo Products.

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