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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. Thanks to Chris Wain, Africa Travel ! #4- EightSixtySouth is the rebrand of Post+Beam, an innovation and communication agency that opened over 10 years ago in New York. Photo Credit: Chris Wain.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Sal Khan. I remember really vividly maybe in the first week of the Shelter in Place Order, I think even before the schools had officially closed, we had a conversation. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan.

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Five Questions with Mark Gerson

VC Cafe

VC Cafe: In one of our recent conversations you mentioned that you look at Philanthropy, an area you’ve been very active in, like a business decision. For instance, people ask us at African Mission Healthcare how they can best help with Covid in Africa. And I find a little time elsewhere in the day. Our answer: Mt.

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

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

That was until my husband’s best friend Mike came over and joined the conversation. When my husband Andy and I started dating, I was finishing my Master’s in Anthropology of International Development, where I was focusing on West Africa. He immediately insisted that groat was not a very appetizing name.

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The Evolving Economics of the App

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