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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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My wife and I both worked as mechanical engineers, so we wanted a name that paid tribute to our profession. Momentum is a term that is highly related to engineering, as it relates to motion and dynamics. As an advertising executive, I had to come up with the names of a number of companies. ParamountQuote.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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Geiger, Twelve31 Media, LLC ! #3- There’s a formula in advertising where cool companies have animals and colors, or some particularly majestic phrase that represents opportunity and creativity. Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. Thanks to Margaret H.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. Back in the days of straight advertising, it was important to have a name that explained what your company specialised in so the audience would be drawn to it. Thanks to Andrea Bear, Bear in Mind Strategies, LLC ! #8-

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

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Via SecondMarket, AngelList creates an LLC on the fly into which all the new investors go. RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers Arul & Associates LLC Accounting The Resumator HR admin. Powered by Personforce. Textual celebrates three years and version 3.0

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis. They bought distribution and engineering talent. He’ll pivot.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

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These investments include Kaggle, a startup that compels engineers to compete against each other in order to solve “hard problems,” and Continuuity, Parse, Pushd and Citus Data. Advertise Here. Advertise Here. The partners are currently in the middle of successfully raising their second fund. Your tip here.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Volta

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However, they were quickly replaced when technology allowed for gasoline engines. Volta Industries, LLC has an answer. Volta wants to use advertisers to pay for the stations and the electricity. We then partner with advertisers that sponsor free charging at the stations. The best part? It would be free for consumers.