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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Once I developed the fabric I wanted it to have a name that was memorable, and that described it in one word. However, over the course of the following 5 years, my love for tequila, my desire to develop a brand, and that nickname came together to birth Juan Lobo Tequila, leading me to become passionate about 100% blue agave, sipping tequilas.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. An Eye for Business Development Your new CTO’s technology vision should fall in line with your overall business strategy. Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group. Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Almost certainly accounting is a support service and should be outsourced (unless, perhaps, you’re selling accounting software and you need to eat your own dogfood!). PR/Marketing.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. 20 Useful Tools, Stencils and GUI Kits for Android Developers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals.

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The Evolution Of The Podcast

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And I think as we talk just a little bit, as we got started, you started in 2005. So I'm looking for a lawyer looking for MBA programmer and a graphics developer. So we developed our own plugin and that kind of really led the Genesis of everything else. Like this show?

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