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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Italist is the essence of what we do: bringing online the experience of shopping from the streets of Italy. When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. I also wanted to reflect my new, remote and off-grid lifestyle as part of the name.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). We have great intellectual property protection, and have efficient ways to enforce contracts. Think Philips Electronics, NXP, ASML and Tom Tom.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. ER : Do you know how big of a fraction of the California vaccine rollout you guys have been? And I would say like, we have capacity to do at least three times more than what we did if we had enough supply.