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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). #17-

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Most of the Internet startup consulting firms went bankrupt.

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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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What is the right age to found a company?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Research suggests that age may in fact be an advantage for entrepreneurs. Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007. founders startups infrastructure internet VC' But I did a quick and informal poll with my partners and found results consistent with Wadhwa’s findings.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23. I always knew that I would someday start my own company.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). So much for timing. hey eric, love the blog.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. Chaos often creates some of the best opportunities, so we tend to back category leaders. It’s very different for every company in every category. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns.

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