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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When my partners and I decided to start a law firm focusing on trademark services, we decided to practice what we preach to our clients about choosing a new business name. One of my partners also happens to share the same name as the comedian Will Ferrell. Thanks to Kim Clancy, Hampton O’Bannon Partners, LLC. #4

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Multiculturalism: Lorie Valle-Yanez on driving diversity initiatives into business benefits

Transformify

Valle-Yanez believes her diversity training began at birth as a first-generation American, raised in Hawaii – where multiculturalism and inclusion are a way of life – by parents from the Philippines and Nicaragua. Lorie, you were raised in Hawaii where inclusion and belonging are a way of life. in Organizational Behavior.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. I canceled my first ever extended family trip to Hawaii less than a week before going. Dinners were consumed with customers or in hotels and often past 10pm. My family went without me.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The actual goal here is really to increase the main metrics – the amount of money it generates and the amount of traffic it gets. Yaro: Yeah, as you saw on the slides I went to Fiji, Hawaii, America, Canada, Europe, down to Dubai, Singapore, and back home over eight months. You can do all of these things or some of these things.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

BHAG is one day be able to truly focus on what is ahead and its achievability and aim to change my goals always to stay relevant to my customers, employees, market, partners, investors and the society. 9- Be the #1 Small Giant in Hawaii. You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. The biggest one?

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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

Eric Ries : I appreciate you saying that, and we should certainly reserve a moment to say thank you to all of the spouses and supportive partners that have made possible so much of this relief work that we have been talking about in this series of conversations. Hawaii and Alaska defacto have closed borders.