Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Although most Latin American countries have significantly improved working environments for women, few companies would yet dare send a women employee to work in Saudi Arabia. Watch your product naming. Product naming is always a major effort and mistakes can result in costly failures. HR rules are local.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2016

A new business owner must take the necessary legal steps to ensure that their intellectual property is secured, such as applying for patents, registering their designs and protecting their trademarks, such as logos, product names and jingles used to promote their products. The Risk of Legal Liability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2014

It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. Company and product naming may also seem simple, but should be a key early effort, because mistakes can be very costly. Make it a rule to not fraternize with your employees, and choose your partners wisely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. Company and product naming may also seem simple, but should be a key early effort, because mistakes can be very costly. Make it a rule to not fraternize with your employees, and choose your partners wisely.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

When a rogue employee sent out an offensive tweet from the official Vodafone twitter account , the ensuing social media furore saw the company posting hundreds of the same tweet apologising for the error to every individual user that RTed or mentioned the original tweet. Act fast but don’t panic!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Department Mission Statements – What am I Supposed to Do Today It wasn’t that we somehow had inherited dumb employees. competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. Titles are not the same as what your job is. This is a big idea.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2015

Previously, you may not have been aware how a country on the other side of the world treated its employees, carried out daily operations or communicated with close contacts, but all these aspects of business can now be understood.

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Gust

DECEMBER 29, 2013

It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. Company and product naming may also seem simple, but should be a key early effort, because mistakes can be very costly. Make it a rule to not fraternize with your employees, and choose your partners wisely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

Shortly after leaving the company we were notified that the Italian ex-employee was suing us for creating an unacceptable working environment which led to his resignation. Watch your product naming. Product naming is always a major effort and mistakes can result in costly failures.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

If you need help or simply don’t have the time (it took us nearly 50 hours to name “crowdSPRING&# ), you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 64,000 designers and writers to come up with your company name or a product name. Sometimes, this can work out really well. But there are risks.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2014

With this feature, you can create a list of things such as brand names, product names, competitors, journalists and even key employees and receive daily digests for any mentions. Alerts have been with us for a while. The original player was Google Alerts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Chris Messina , a former Google employee who, among other things, helped to design Google+, was the first person to suggest using a # sign in messages on Twitter. For example, if a person clicks on the hashtag #purplemarkers, they’ll typically see a page that aggregates all content with the same hashtag. Hashtags originated on Twitter.

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Small Business Force

JANUARY 8, 2012

Often an entrepreneur has much at risk, personally; may feel the responsibility for the livelihoods of employees, and have deep concern that the customers are being served effectively. But, at the end of the day, if it isn't fun, for the small business owner, the employees, and yes, even the customers, the chances of success are limited.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We return to the three revenue models from the beginning of the pitch, introducing the product names for the first time: an ads product called InLeads, a job listings product called Opportunities, and a subscriptions product called Network Plus.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2010

A Brand Should Have A Good Name and Logo. A strong company (or product) name is easily recognizable and is important to good branding. Your brand starts with your company and employees. Your brand extends to your vendors, your prospects and employees, investors, and even competitors.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 12, 2018

Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1-Conveyed an idea based on a product. We came up with our product name before our company name. Our product is Sgt. Photo Credit: Justin Baum. Thanks to Stacey A.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 9, 2018

I flew down the path of inventing the product, with a new patented holder for the chalk, so parents, kids, grandparents and even special needs folks can draw with sidewalk chalk without having to be on the ground. For many years, I’ve been influenced by a story that changed the course of employee wellbeing in the U.S.

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