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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

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. 1- Combined my last name and what I do. My last name is Sorter, and I write. 4- Description of our software. Photo Credit: Amy W.

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces have proliferated in Cambridge and Boston. Yes, WebInno is becoming BIG.

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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

Home to major branches of many advertising and marketing agencies, including Publicis, Ogilvy, IDEO, and Razorfish to name just a few, San Francisco also offers a rich talent pool of workers with sales and marketing expertise. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work. Pham left the startup in June 2011 over unknown reasons and went to work at Los Angeles incubator Science. Color said that it had six patents pending at the time of its funding, including its ‘elastic’ social.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. Sam Gichuru CEO at nailab.

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How To Get Past Buzzwords And Make Better Hires

Transformify

A growing body of research shows we make a bunch of snap judgments starting just with people’s names–and continue from there. One widely cited study found that candidates with white-sounding names but otherwise identical résumés were 50% more likely to be called in for an interview.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

Ressi, Wilson Sonsini and a top-tier accounting firm (which preferred not to be named) have been working on developing this set of documents for some time now, says Ressi. They are completely free for startups and investors to use (and are embedded below, and can be found on TheFunded). Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011.

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