Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

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. The name To Tony Productions is a dedication to my cousin and close friend Anthony Ranoiccha III, or Tony, as the family would call him.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

An effective way of generating cashflow without having to do all the sales and marketing effort of a deal is being able to license out your value, but having someone else’s name on the product or services. Being wholly owned has the same effect, but it does obviously require a merger or an acquisition to occur.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

The new parents of your neighborhood are naming their new-born children after the Roman emperors! You recruit that marketing agency with the fancy name. Attend events to scout for any opportunities of vertical and horizontal mergers and tie-ups. How it would play out in reality: And voila!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. So what’s left?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. Success draws attention, and the last thing you would want to do is step on the toes of China’s Internet giants — namely Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

My partner had convinced several major Hollywood names that this was the inevitable consequence of the merger of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. We believed that by putting full motion video (i.e. This wasn’t just some random Silicon Valley fantasy. And at the time it was a plausible scenario.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. My pet name for the process is “Ortho.&# Building the sales channel and supporting the marketing can burn a lot of cash. These are the markets for continuous innovations of all stripes. Ortho kills. Increasing returns markets exist.

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