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21 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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. My wife and I were driving home from North Dakota trying to think about a cool new name for our mattress company. Image Credit: Jeff Quinn.

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal What Entrepreneurship Means to Them

Hearpreneur

I left the Czech Republic at age 16 to pursue the American Dream. Thanks to Harris Brown, HFB Advertising Design ! #20 It’s solving 1,000 problems in the name of solving a single problem. It’s challenging, but the decision is mine and mine alone — and that’s where the freedom aspect comes in.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Alfred Jorgensen Laboratory

crowdSPRING Blog

AJL supply these yeasts to breweries in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Spain, Brazil, Chile, USA, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Korea, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Vi etnam, Germany and many other countries. I was impressed!

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Spam Laws, Email Marketing, and Compliance

Duct Tape Marketing

Czech Republic – Act No. Choose Name and Subject Lines Wisely. Data from Convince & Convert found that 43 percent of email recipients would report email as spam based only on “from” names or email addresses. That means you won’t be able to use a list you collected for one company to advertise for another.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We would name our sales intelligence company Vainu. When I worked at Facebook, I worked with a variety of businesses and ad agencies that were advertising on the Facebook platform. After the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the idea of being an entrepreneur was new. 20- Change in my family’s needs.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, largely I was plagiarizing from a guy called Petr Ludwig who had already done all this in the Czech Republic. Everybody in the Czech Republic is wearing masks." And I looked into why, and I found this video in Czech from this guy, Petr with subtitles. Eric Ries : Well, you have a domain name in a website.