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MAY 3, 2011

Driving through Iowa, Indiana or southern Illinois, they’re pretty hard to miss towering and turning on the horizon. With green technology becoming more and more in demand, many homeowners are struggling to connect with companies that sell products like solar panels, but also contractors who can design and install the systems.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

So when we were coming up with business names for it, we tried all of the startup tricks- removing vowels at weird places, (Nsights) replacing similar sounding letters (Kontentmetriks, Serendipiti, Metrix), or even combining parts of my and my co-founder’s names (Brato, which was short for Brandon and Tony).

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Naming Suriname Entrepreneur Sweden 97

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Take the example of Indianas Passageways.

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