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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The name for my health-tech, social-impact startup Cancer University (Cancer U) was a lightbulb AHA moment. I grew up with parents and grandparents who loved to cook, and with our south Louisiana heritage, cooking was as much about the family as it was about the meal itself. Or they'd been taken on the internet.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

As a startup hub, Amsterdam grabs the same amount of attention as the girl with braces at the high school dance. So is the Dutch tech startup story sold short? We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Robert Verwaayen is a Dutch venture capitalist. Not in my view.

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The 10 Best Side Businesses to Fund Your Startup (Plus One Unexpected Suggestion)

Up and Running

If you aren’t familiar with the term, bootstrapping, also known as “self-funding,” refers to the various methods entrepreneurs can use to fund their startups beyond funding sources like small business loans. Using a side business to bootstrap your startup. 10 side businesses to help fund your startup: 1.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I figured since I had so much experience in starting businesses, why can’t I develop a model to help startups get all of the information they need in one location! It was 1994: the Internet was still in its infancy and e-commerce was still a relatively new phenomenon. That was my aha moment! One less worry for moms.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

I was kind of, for the main morning news show, I was kind of the go-to IT guy if they wanted to talk about the latest Internet Explorer security problem, or election hacking or whatever. The fact that Mardi Gras went ahead in Louisiana, despite really as the pandemic was kicking off and now it's been so badly hit. Louis I think it was.