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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

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It wins through better distribution, logistics, inventory management, warehousing, customer support, merchandising, cross-selling and ultimately on price & scale. It’s not just big in Dallas but in San Diego, Phoenix and Sacramento but also Boston, Chicago, Washington and of course San Francisco.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. These “Acme”-sounding names often couple empty words with proper nouns, such as: Phoenix Technology, Eagle Systems, Lewis Enterprises, Malibu Industries, or suffixes such as, “plex” or “tronics.”

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