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18 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. I named my lifestyle brand ‘Urban Spinster’ because I am an African-American woman who is single, never married over age 30.

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30 Entrepreneurs and Business Owners Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Silvia Borges, Regional Rural Finance ! #5- 26- After an inability to transfer a job Photo Credit: Don Shields I started the business that became Geelong Insurance Brokers on the 10th of December 1993. Being a mother to a pre-schooler, I wanted to be more present for my child, particularly when he falls sick.

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An Interview with Steve Ligouri, Serial Innovator

Startup Lessons Learned

This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. Because I’d made a name for myself as an innovative marketer in consumer financing, I was then recruited by GE, which still had a consumer finance brand at the time called GE Money. What was it, and how did it come about?

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at The Independent , May 16, 2006: As an economist, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and current World Bank presidential candidate brings something completely different and equally valuable to discussions of entrepreneurship than CEOs and investment bankers. Chuck Feeney at RTE Radio 1 , Jan.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

In 1993, Word 6.0 Realize that every bone and muscle in the corporate body works to protect that revenue, and so a transition of this magnitude means pushing the company far outside it’s comfort zone – finance, legal, marketing, sales, technology – few in the company would be left untouched.

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The Agony and Ecstasy of Selling My First Company

Feld Thoughts

It 1993, I sold my first company, Feld Technologies, to a company called Sage Alerting Systems (which, after several name changes, became AmeriData Technologies.) I can’t remember the name but it was a funky place I went to all the time. A new guy I hadn’t heard of yet named Jerry LeBow came in.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

In other words, the future of financing is continuous funding, not discrete. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. How to raise money with no lead - Venture Hacks , July 31, 2010 Paul Graham says “The future [of funding] is no fixed amount, no fixed closing date, and no lead.” Make it unique.