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When Microsoft Threatened to Sue Us Over the Letter ā€œEā€

Steve Blank

By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. With a massive leap of creativity we decided that it should it should have our company name and the letter “E” with a swoop over it. With the browser came a Microsoft logo.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. we had no revenue. In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals. Reid Hoffman.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones ā€“ But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Thus, join the ranks of Yahoo, Google, Amazon, eBay, Cisco and Microsoft and focus your limited time and resources on perfecting your customer value proposition, not on devising an ideal company name. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Intuitive URL. Avoid Hyphens.

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