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The Secret Sauce Of Start-Up Success

YoungUpstarts

Can a competitor’s product name be easily substituted for my company’s brand? Your business model should be scalable and have the capacity to grow beyond the audience sweet spot you identified early on in this process. Wain Kellum is CEO of Atlanta, Georgia-based VoIP service provider Vocalocity.

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U.C. Santa Cruz Commencement Speech – 2019

Steve Blank

It’s altogether fitting and proper that in a college named after Rachel Carson , to share four short stories of what happened when truth and justice faced money and power – for the seven years I served as a public official on the California Coastal Commission. How will you rouse an audience to action?

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Cove.tool

Austin Startup

Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S. She answered some questions in advance of her SXSW 2020 pitch in the category Smart Cities, Transportation & Logistics Technology (9:30 to 10:30 am Saturday, March 14) before a panel of expert judges and a live audience. Autonomous driving.

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Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

So I actually got involved being a music pastor at a church in Georgia. John Jantsch: So I got to know, what’s in the name? So, in full disclosure, you mentioned about your name, Duct Tape Marketing, when you and I were offline a second ago. So it really depends on your audience, right? What’s up with Nectafy?

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The Proven Framework For Building A Thriving Community

Duct Tape Marketing

And so the site isn't just where, how you can find out how you can work with her, but it's a webinar that she's gonna be doing or you know, a small gathering she's doing in Atlanta, Georgia to bring people together to talk about these things. Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast.

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

Kappos: We’ve hired Dr. Stewart Tate, a tenured Georgia Tech econ professor. Audience question: Average pending time for a patent application used to be 6-9 months. Audience: one of my problems was making sure patent wasn’t issued too quickly, so you can sync it with marketing. IBM, I.B.M., Director of the NJIPLA.

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Use These Powerful Psychology Strategies to Choose Fonts For Your Business

crowdSPRING Blog

There are also fonts that are meant to be a little quirkier and make a bolder statement – those are more suitable for niche businesses with a very targeted audience. Most important, be sure that the company’s name is legible and readable. How can you remember a business if you don’t know the name of that business?

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