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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What’s in a name? Would a rose called by any other name sell just as well? Coming up with a name for your business is just as important as the business idea itself. A name not only identifies you, but it can also serve to set you apart from your competitors and reflect your values. So what’s in a name?

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Rebuild Lives #Ukraine/ Provide Work Opportunities to Refugees

Transformify

First, it was the refugee crisis in Afghanistan when hundreds of thousands of people fled Afghanistan in fear of the Taliban regime. Back in 2016, when Transformify developed Rebuild Lives, we sincerely hoped that humanity would never face a devastating refugee crisis again. Yet, reality proved us wrong more than once.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

and the Soviet Union faced off with a nuclear deterrence policy called mutually assured destruction (aptly named MAD.) Iraq, Afghanistan and the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. Each of these independent research organizations would support a mix of basic and applied research. The Cold War.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Sydney Gressel : My name is Sydney Gressel, and I'm a nurse at UCSF in the Benioff Children's Hospital in the pediatric emergency department. Ryan Sarver : My name is Ryan Sarver. Sydney Gressel : One of my favorite meditation teachers is a man named Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Here is the team behind Frontline Foods.