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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Before I started my business I went to a conference in Hawaii called Worthshop and one of the speakers was Jody Burr who talked about finding your inner CEO. Now, Internet users have that same choice among our two hundred ‘not-com’ domain name options like ‘dot-marketing’ (.marketing),

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Digital Design & User Experience Best Practices: Happiness + Profits!

Occam's Razor

For example, I type in for "trip to Hawaii" (not an esoteric destination) into Google. For now, take my word that by not making you learn to use the internet all over again the team at Cartier is unusual and worth admiring. You know because this internet thing is a fad. Take any metric you want. Follow-on views.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. I canceled my first ever extended family trip to Hawaii less than a week before going. We were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market). We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English.