Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names. In the new bubble PR may be your new best friend, so invest in it. The revenue, profits and speed of scale of the winning companies can be breathtaking. The New Exits.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 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 started thinking about my company’s name by being honest about the criticism in my industry. 1 – Clear Company Value.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

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. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they came up with their business name. #1- 1- Suggestive and evocative name.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

The firm hires a lot of PhDs to do research and come out with a wonder drug, and then markets it widely with tons of PR. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002. As a second thought experiment, one could do the same in medicine. Imagine a biotech startup, Melchisedec Medicals. In fact, Melchisedec is a placebo.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. Do you know the name of the cleaning person? That’s it. That’s what we do.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

“The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. Can you name all of the scripts? Where the name of every country comes from – [link]. Avoid Decision by Indecision – [link]. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link].

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. The main reason was that we feared a brand-name VC firm would stick us with a newscaster aspart of the deal. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it.

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