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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. GeoInvenio.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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Nobody was leveraging digital, e-commerce or mobile. We would name our sales intelligence company Vainu. Our response has been very favorable and we’ve expanded into Ohio and Connecticut in addition to launching a related site for comparison shopping for residential natural gas. Thanks to Olivia Skuza, NuORDER !

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10 Best Apps For Small Business Owners

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There is an abundance of productivity and business mobile apps that can help you run your business remotely. Here are ten terrific mobile apps that you should consider using. Until recently, taking care of payroll, benefits, and other HR-related tasks from a mobile phone was a challenge. Adobe Scan.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. First Name. Company Name. * Mobile Content. Connecticut.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. Industry-changing RDFs are probably impossible to hold by yourself, unless you are Steve Jobs looking at mobile phones. The ecosystem is just hard to beat.