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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I started Walletero as an independent personal finance site offering free tools and resources. So, I ended up naming the business after the place where it was born — Kansas City, Kansas. Thanks to Tim Sims, Kansas-Sleep ! #25- I was brainstorming names with my co-founders CTO Jesse Forrest and CMO Matt Reilly.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.

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When Big Companies Are Dead But Don’t Know It

Steve Blank

The company’s two co-founders had created a new technology and an innovative business strategy. The engineering co-founder had created a consumer electronics security product that created an entirely new category. Over time the co-founder responsible for the original business innovations departed.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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M&A and Finance. PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Finance/Accounting. Assn/Non-Profit. B2B: Business Media. City & Regionals. CMS Insights. Consumer Media. Design & Production. Digital Editions. eMedia & Technology. Lead Generation. Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. White Papers.

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Transcript of How to Stay Top of Mind

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the CEO of cofounder of Influence and Company and the author of a book we’re going to talk about today called Top of Mind, use content to unleash your influence and engage those who matter to you, so John thanks for joining me. John: So are you in Kansas City today or are you in Columbia?