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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. How Do I Start? Ask yourself: 2.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. Never Get Even, Get Ahead With a set of orders from brand name customers, we had growing confidence that we had achieved product/market fit. Are These Your Slides?

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth. They told us that the name on the business cards was a code name, and that the logo was deliberately misleading. They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. * My professional blog is. The Customer Service Survey. Ive written a book called.

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Google Analytics Health Check: Is Your Configuration Broken?

ConversionXL

Is the office IP address filtered out? Are the IP addresses of your affiliates filtered out (agencies, freelancers, etc.)? Is your home IP address filtered out? Are the IP addresses of remote employees filtered out? Quotation marks not escaped or ansi characters not encoded in eCommerce category or item names.

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Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with wordpress and dreamhost

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Suffice to say you probably noticed this site was down for a few days last week (the RSS feed was down even longer). I’ll probably never know… Update: An awesome DreamHost tech support rep named Mike M. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 3)

Software By Rob

So I began a complete re-design of the site with a high-end designer named Ryan Scherf, and I worked with a contract developer to have the new design applied to the existing 200 or so pages. I hired a lawyer with experience in IP website acquisitions to draft up a custom agreement. For escrow I used escrow.com. Conclusion.