Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

Having grown up in Northern California and living near a Japanese family when I was really young, I always had a fascination with Japan and wanted to live there. If I asked and my partner predictably told me “no&# then the only way to go would be to directly defy his instructions – never a great idea in business.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 22, 2019

In the seventies they used an image of a stork and a baby for the introduction of Pampers in Japan. Great idea, one would think… Where it not for the fact that in Japan the stork has nothing to do with babies. In the Netherlands it’s common to be on a fist name basis in communicating with both companies and consumers.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

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. I come up with this business name with a few ideas that lead to one thing. Thanks to Lewis Daniels, Salvador Partners. #4

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2017

by Shane Cragun, founding partner at SweetmanCragun Group and coauthor of “ Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption “ Two years ago, Boston Dynamics released a video showing a 6’ tall, 320 lb. humanoid robot named Atlas running freely through the woods. Nuclear weapons: The U.S.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

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. To play up the name even more, I use when you need a best friend on the web as my tagline. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

which will help with recruiting employees, finding the best partners, fast-tracking distribution in key countries, and landing marquee customers. Some of the names you want to get in front of include GGV Capital , Sequoia China , IDG-Accel , GSR Ventures , and Qiming Venture Parters. The players in Japan have had their ups and downs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

If you want to come off as the more professional party, you can take it upon yourself to learn a little bit about your partners’ business culture and adjust your behavior accordingly. Of course, you’ll want to do this subtly; you don’t want to come off as overly unprofessional. Keep Power Distance in Mind.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. Still, I thought Id share this email that happened to arrive during class. Ive been talking to the folks at [a very good VC firm] about helping them with a new venture. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2016

During the six-month window that the trains run, there will be people from a lot of software companies coming to the Bay Area to attend events such as NetSuite’s SuiteWorld, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce, and Oracle Open World, to name a few of the big ones. We hope the train car will get them thinking.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2018

You also cannot sponsor partners either, since you have to be married in order to live with a partner in the UAE. Other sectors that are growing rapidly include education, engineering and construction, IT and telecommunications, retail, trade and logistics, and automotive manufacturing to name just a few.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

The referrals the company got, especially from vendors and external partners were, in Perraults words, "spot on," and the experiment was a success. Instead, the takeaway message for recruiting is: play to your strengths (in Meebos case, its networking), be active, not passive, and get your name out there. Were going to be in Japan.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2016

I had to reach a lot of people I’d never be able to meet personally, let alone learn all of their names. Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay , is a sales veteran with more than 20 years of experience in direct sales, channel and partner development and business strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. It strokes your ego.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I want to thank Techstars for putting this event together and giving me a chance to experience the scene, even if it lacks a name. For what its worth, I like Silicon Mountain. Brad Feld also had some thoughts on this event on his blog. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. Japan overcame these barriers by using their import quotas to ship high-end, high-margin luxury cars, establishing manufacturing plants in the U.S. Ally with some larger partners who see you as a way to break the incumbents lock on the market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The studio’s design talent boasts some famous names among the list of partners, including Paula Scher, Michael Beirut, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Harry Pearce, and many more. Since then, it has taken on design work for clients large and small, including big names like The Economist and Apple. Headquarters: London.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. And they expose the startups to a vast network of mentors, none of whom get paid for their involvement.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Partnering with the United Nations’ School Feeding initiative, the company blends business and activism by selling merchandise and donating the profits to Latin American, Asian, and African children in need. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec. Chuck Feeney at RTE Radio 1 , Jan. Blake Mycoskie at TreeHugger , Sept.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2018

John Jantsch: We sat their doll to the hospital, and it was going to be about a two-week process, and about halfway through, my daughter gets a letter from the doctor saying how … I can’t remember the doll’s name, but how the doll was doing. Steve Miller: Right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. Japan overcame these barriers by using their import quotas to ship high-end, high-margin luxury cars, establishing manufacturing plants in the U.S. Ally with some larger partners who see you as a way to break the incumbents lock on the market.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2011

And, because I want you to have the details you need to market your business effectively (I do, I REALLY do), I partnered with the good folks at Langton Cherubino to give you some actionable information about this new means of leading your target market directly to your (helpful) content that you want them to read (how cool is that?!).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2013

I may be better known by my fans and the creative industry as “kunkka” ( a name I have plucked out of the depths of my mind without rhyme or reason). That was 2005, and I have been with IFS ever since, growing the company and doing the things that I love, namely illustrating and designing cool concepts for the games industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon systems to defeat Germany and Japan. There they would be tasked to develop military weapons systems and solve military problems to defeat Germany and Japan. The weapons were then manufactured in volume by U.S. corporations.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

As David Heinemeier Hansson (the creator of Ruby on Rails and a partner at 37signals ) notes in a recent speech to Stanford students : "Nobody is an overnight success. magazine named Walker Telecommunications Corporation one of the nation's fastest-growing companies. And that's exactly how it was for us." [ starting at the 0:12 mark ].

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These are the four villains of listening and these four villains of listening from the research and in fact named by the research participants, dramatic interrupting, lost and shrewd, a listening villa. The big cultural variance across Asia and high context cultures, Korea, Japan, China is the role of silence. (14:14):

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Establish credibility with potential partners. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators. A marketing launch can help you get in the door with those partners, if youre having trouble getting their attention. Who doesnt want to see their name in print?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

We have the second highest corporate income tax structure, and soon to be the highest as soon as Japan reduces its rates this year. He already had a discount shipping platform through UPS , which we decided to leverage for the online business by simply changing the name on the “Sent From” field to reflect our business’ name.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

日本 (Japan). NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. América Latina.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. We are encouraging all of our companies to put in place a dual-class share structure if and when they go public, said Marc Andreessen, a general partner at the firm, which has taken stakes in 156 tech enterprises over the past three years. billion in an effort to meet new deficit targets agreed with euro-zone partners.

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