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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

If you search the word “Affygility” we are the only company in the entire internet that displays. Third, when choosing a company name, you want something that can be used as an internet domain name that’s relatively short (would love 8 characters or less, but most of those are taken and expensive to secure). Try it and you’ll see.

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

Amy likes to remind me that when I was an entrepreneur, I used to regularly give talks at MIT about entrepreneurship. Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. We never invested in anything together, but after I moved to Boulder, I got a call from Charley one day in early 1996.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. and Half.com. Investing Strategy.

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4 Essential Hires If You’re Starting a Business in 2020

Up and Running

Like many fledgling entrepreneurs, you might be thinking that you’ll need to wear not just multiple hats , but all the hats, when you’re first starting out. The internet is a very crowded place and it’s not easy to stand out, even if you’ve got the most exciting product or service in the world. What’s the problem with this approach?

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Innovator Behind a New Tech App That Makes it Effortless To Do Some Good

Hearpreneur

I have been an entrepreneur for 15 years and a major theme for my career has been innovation. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? . I worked on one of the first internet banking platforms in 1996 and it is now part of a major banking institution in the Midwest. Tell us your story.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. We had recorded $1.8

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