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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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EightSixtySouth is the rebrand of Post+Beam, an innovation and communication agency that opened over 10 years ago in New York. When the decision was made to rebrand during the acquisition, I called on my team to determine what our new identity was going to be going forward. It was 2004 and my wife and I were in New York.

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Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City

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Playing Startup

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We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. And a lot of big, meaningful companies have been created just in the last couple years which is nearly unprecedented. So why should I or we collectively care?

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We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. And a lot of big, meaningful companies have been created just in the last couple years which is nearly unprecedented. So why should I or we collectively care?

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He told a great story of building a company around values – “all natural whole nut and fruit bars made from ingredients you can see and pronounce&# – and building the company the old-fashioned way, hard work, pounding the pavements, marching around New York going store by store to generate a channel of distribution.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. And a lot of big, meaningful companies have been created just in the last couple years which is nearly unprecedented. So why should I or we collectively care?

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He told a great story of building a company around values – “all natural whole nut and fruit bars made from ingredients you can see and pronounce&# – and building the company the old-fashioned way, hard work, pounding the pavement, marching around New York, going store by store to generate a channel of distribution.