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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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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 then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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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. When brainstorming a name for a new venture, zero in on the promise you want to make to your customers. 1 – Modern Warriors.

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Green Franchise Taking The Industry A Notch Higher

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How did you come up with your business name? OXXO was originally a European cleaning franchise which I liked the name for is metaphoric, hugs and kisses and its colors blue and yellow. The first OXXO Care Cleaners opened in 2001, and there are now more than 50 locations worldwide. Tell us about your products and services.

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When to pivot from your original plan?

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Green Dot Corporation was formed by an entrepreneur in the year 2001 to create a product to permit those without credit cards to purchase items on the Internet. My story of a great pivot. My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

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Jocz , you may need to change how you segment your audience: Marketers typically segment according to demographics (“over 40,” say, or “new parent” or “middle income”) or lifestyle (“traditionalist” or “going green”). Premium-brand market leaders [.] Here are some things you can do. Learn from forced efficiency. “I recession in 2009.”.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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You see sustainability of farms as a key attribute in The Bouqs or Green & Blacks chocolate. Perhaps the first big pioneer of this was Apple who started opening stores in 2001 , just when it appeared that the Internet was going to implode and when they went physical the industry trade magazines and press openly mocked them.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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2001 ; Tullis et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Although studies of screen reading show no difference between reading from screen and from paper ( Dillon, 1992 ; Bernard, 2001 ), there could be some validity to this argument. However, this has not been borne out by recent evidence ( Bernard, 2001 , Boyarski et al.,