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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

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. Since basis of the company was to create, track, and report out on metrics it fit with the theme and the name, hence, CHICAGO MetricsR.

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Important Branding Lessons From The Top 5 Retailers In The US

YoungUpstarts

Walmart has long been a top name in US retail. In a 2017 Harvard Business Review interview, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon explained , We start with reality and try to focus on what we can do to make Walmart an even better company. billion in 2017), employee training, and advancement structure. Let’s get started. What You Can Do.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

In 2017 alone, we’ve seen widespread store closures or bankruptcies from apparel retailers, including: True Religion. Ironically, some of the most successful apparel companies are winning on the dimensions that Amazon has historically crushed other competitors on — namely personalization and product discovery.

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Curated Collision of Awesome Women

Austin Startup

Still recovering from the 2017 #SCFemFounders Mission! 2017 was a big year of travel for me across Tokyo, Austin Texas, Hong Kong and London. We were skilfully and admirably led by Peta Ellis who was awarded the 2017 National Techboard Community Prize whilst we were in London. the best way to pick a great mate!).

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Important Lessons Your Startup Or Small Business Can Learn From The World’s Best Brands

crowdSPRING Blog

The 2017 Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report offers important branding lessons for startups and small business. Before we get to the lessons from the 2017 report, we want to be sure that there’s no confusion about the term “brand.” This is only partially true.

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The importance of an Always Be Learning life

Austin Startup

As a matter of fact, in 2017 I resigned from two non-profit Boards (Conscious Capitalism and Entrepreneurs Foundation) that I really love just to create more time for data.world. I read a lot of curated material, such as what The Aspen Institute provided us in my Henry Crown Fellowship. So, in short there just isn’t much room for more.

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SXSW Startups: Tankee

Austin Startup

From Minecraft adventures to ROBLOX music videos, Tankee’s team of real live humans review, create, and curate the best gaming content in a family-friendly, worry-free environment. Gaming content has unique elements like screen names, chat boxes, and other elements that make it hard to moderate algorithmically.

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