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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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I’d previously been the lead publicist at a very posh PR firm, and the running joke was that I was incredibly “off brand.” And really in PR, the best media coverage starts with the basic pitch. I came up with the name Excel Global Partners for my corporate consulting firm because of the vision I had for the company.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people. It's some of the top PR people in the world. Jeremy Howard : So people who demand gold standard evidence to do anything, like masks for example. Eric Ries : Well that.