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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. How Do I Start? Ask yourself: 2.

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What Businesses Need To Know In The Wake Of The Equifax Breach

YoungUpstarts

And the Equifax breach is likely to exacerbate this trend, potentially flooding the dark web with names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal information that fraudsters can leverage to gain access to a legitimate user’s account. They then make purchases with a stored payment method or drain value from the user’s account.

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

They can be positive (such as indicating that the form was submitted successfully) or negative (“The user name you have selected is already taken”). Base the name of the form on its purpose. That name will inform users what the form is about and why they should fill it in. Skype ’s registration form contains all six components.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Maybe not by name, but archetypally, that was the family that I wanted to affect. He kept hearing my name and he reached out one day and said, "I want to sit on your board.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Make sure you own all the IP created during this trial period, and make no promises for later. Imagine you’re a highly-trained software engineer. Need to learn about IP, patents, etc.?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Mental Pandiculation » Why I Don’t Hang Out With People Named David. Name one widely acclaimed or groundbreaking technology or technique to come out of the.NET realm in the past 5 years? Now name one that didn’t come from Microsoft? It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Elaine Kenny.

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