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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

We’re a video production company and I used my initials TAR, not knowing at the time that it’s fairly common to name a business after the founder. Thanks to Tim Ryan, TAR Productions ! Ever since, we have been very successful in our branding outreach and connection our core market with the product.

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Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)

Steve Blank

For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) For example, missions into Afghanistan are 6-8 hours versus normal mission times of 2-3 hours.). Horizon 3 is focused on searching for and creating brand new missions. ( that’s pretty easy. Horizon 1 is the Navy’s core mission.

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Your New Competitive Advantage (It’s Not What You Think)

Duct Tape Marketing

But with increasingly commoditized products and services, shrinking margins, and copycat competitors we need to look deeper. Previously Gabe served as a Captain in the Marine Corps for 8 years, spending 2 years between Iraq and Afghanistan operating on small, embedded advisor teams. What’s your competitive advantage?

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[Review] Content Rules

YoungUpstarts

Rather, demonstrate through case studies or client stories how your products and services help your customers. Create Wings and Roots Ground your content in your own point of view, but ensure that it is findable (tap Search Engine Optimisation or SEO to boost search rankings), accessible (mobile friendly), and shareable on social networks.

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Wordpress.com Founder Matt Mullenweg: The Cloud is Marketing Speak

www.readwriteweb.com

Posted by: George | May 14, 2010 3:46 AM I love Wordpress asewell, without it bloggers would have a tough time ranking in the search engines. The truth is 95 percent of production databases can be supported as well or better in a virtualized environment than on dedicated physical servers, and at much lower cost.

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Wordpress.com Founder Matt Mullenweg: The Cloud is Marketing Speak

www.readwriteweb.com

Posted by: George | May 14, 2010 3:46 AM I love Wordpress asewell, without it bloggers would have a tough time ranking in the search engines. The truth is 95 percent of production databases can be supported as well or better in a virtualized environment than on dedicated physical servers, and at much lower cost.

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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

I looked up where UCSF was and searched around for one of the restaurants we would know. And she had some time and she did our brand work in six days that another VP of marketing and I were commenting on as we were looking at it, this is a work product that we've all seen before and has cost $100,000 and taken six months.