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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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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. We came up with our product name before our company name. The name had to be easily pronounceable, obviously spelled, and unambiguous.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Domain Name/Basic Site. Connecticut. Connecticut. COMPANY AOL COMPANY|AOL. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. Social Services.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

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Stanley is headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. Daniel Hillel, an 81-year-old Israeli scientist, who has reached across political and ethnic boundaries to help dozens of countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America improve agriculture with new irrigation methods has been named to receive the World Food Prize.

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

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I was chatting to the people actually from the bar via Twitter DM and they sent me photos and they told me all their names and they described exactly what happened. Jeremy Howard : It really has and the deeper I get into kind of policy and I'm now been talking with leaders in Europe and England and Africa and America. And so that.