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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Before I started my business I went to a conference in Hawaii called Worthshop and one of the speakers was Jody Burr who talked about finding your inner CEO. Which brought us to think that in LEGO, she should definitely be a ‘brick’ shorter than him – which led us to our name, the Two Three Bricks!

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Digital Design & User Experience Best Practices: Happiness + Profits!

Occam's Razor

We definitely stink less in most cases. For example, I type in for "trip to Hawaii" (not an esoteric destination) into Google. Responsive design is not the right way to go, but you will definitely suck-less.]. Take any metric you want. Pick any metric you want. I mean look at Zappos. It is functional.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

I think that addressable market is probably, maybe, in the tens of millions, maybe hundreds but definitely not in the billions. One of my old Lean Startup sayings is that metrics are people too, and it came up in my conversation with Brian Chesky, too. Hawaii and Alaska defacto have closed borders.