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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business. 1- Initials of a longer name. And we had a name after months of trying.

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. In this case somebody named Todd Adamson. He turned to Mike Jones at Science who was newly set up as an accelerator of sorts or a venture studio.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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How to Create an Attractive Presentation for Investors

ReadWriteStart

These statistics show that investors are interested in financing new projects and are ready to consider existing ideas. To get funding and successfully launch your business, you need to know what it takes to create an attractive presentation for potential investors. Drawing Up a Financial Business Model. Business model.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No, but you have other unfair advantages — you have insight into some market, you have an unlikely team that can both build and sell, you have a rolodex, you have a business model others can’t duplicate, or something else. But for every one of those, another founder has the opposite experience.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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