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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

9- A merger of two companies. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. With that merger, half of each of our business’ names also merged, and that’s how we came up with ‘Enventys Partners’. Photo Credit: Roy Morejon.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My first business, a digital agency called MPSWORKS, came about purely based on demand for digital services and to generally help make a difference for small businesses across the UK by creating strong work that would help them prosper. It never occurred to me to start my own business that early into my career as a web developer.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal. I would add that having a business such as a web development contract service would bring in cash-flow allowing the main founders to keep alive and grow the vision and initial beta. Seriously mean it too. I am like dude WTF. How To Get There.