1999 Naming Operations Technical Review 
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.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.
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Hearpreneur
APRIL 3, 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. 1 – A Name to Trust. 2 – Our Flagship Technology. The name of our company came from the name of our flagship product.
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.” Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. This is within our reach with technologies we are developing at Calxeda.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 14, 2010
Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. He said, literally, I sh*t you not, “well, my report was due and I didn’t have much time.
Transformify
APRIL 15, 2016
Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. Sam Gichuru is a lynchpin in Nairobi’s startup community due to his leadership of nailab, a major incubator and accelerator. Patricia Jumi Co-Founder at The Growth Hub.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names.
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