article thumbnail

15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I started thinking about my company’s name by being honest about the criticism in my industry. 1 – Clear Company Value.

Naming 48
article thumbnail

How a Buyer (or User) Persona Can Improve Your Business

Up and Running

Here at Palo Alto Software, we developed a persona named Garrett who drives the bulk of our product decisions. While this may seem obvious, giving your persona a name is a huge step forward in making your persona real. Maybe on their mobile phone? What is their home or work environment? Is it noisy or quiet? Don’t be generic.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. Related posts Cloudability’s day in the sun: Portland company lands $8.7 0) Just hack it: Nike launches Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars in Portland. Name (required). Project Coordinator at Mobile Agency. 3 Comments.

article thumbnail

Q3 2022 Portfolio in Review

Version One Ventures

Outreach and Shippo were both named 2022 Cloud 100 honorees for the second year in a row! . Filebase announced upcoming changes to their platform, namely removing Skynet and Storj integrations permanently. Booster rolled out a fleet of its mobile fueling trucks to three new cities : Portland, Ore., Boston, and Philly.

article thumbnail

[Event] FOCUS100

YoungUpstarts

Now in its third year, FOCUS100 was launched by entrepreneur Kathryn Finney, who was named a Champion of Change by The White House in 2013 for her leadership in building a growing pipeline of urban tech entrepreneurs. Altman Company Building, a city landmark located at 365 5th Avenue in Manhattan.

article thumbnail

APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

website asking for women mobile developers to apply to win 1 of 5 free conference passes and a demo pedestal for APPNATION SF. I couldn’t resist, so I put my name in the hat. The judges were from ReadWriteWeb, Mashery, Churn Labs, Samsung Developers, Wireless Industry Partnership, Pockergamer.biz, and Mobile Monday London.

article thumbnail

Fenwick VC Survey: Q2 Funding Valuations Shoot the Moon

allthingsd.com

View all videos » api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128&type=allthingsd-section&query=BoomTown. John Paczkowski in Mobile. Help Wanted: Moonlighters for Mobile Apps. Cisco Partner - Pacific Star Communications - Portland, OR. ATDmobile (Mobile).