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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. Bill has been following the 1M/1M project and would like to connect his partners to our team.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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. We came up with our product name before our company name. The name had to be easily pronounceable, obviously spelled, and unambiguous.

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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. Kevin Hale, Founder, Wufoo, and Partner, Y Combinator. Wufoo raised about $118,000.

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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

Duct Tape Marketing

And I have no idea how the hell I got So lucky is to have her as a partner on this. And you didn't have a name anymore. I mean, the, the, the most kind of amusing part is my number one enemy at McKinsey and Company, in many respects was very senior guy by the name of Lou Gerstner. And what's your first name again?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Stanley is headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. Britain’s Apax Partners in cooperation with Baltimore, Maryland’s JMI Equity has purchased the US-Israeli software company Paradigm for $1 billion. PARADIGM IS SOLD TO APAX AND JMI FOR $1 BILLION.

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Crazy Horse Memorial & Visionary Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Rushmore, have a couple of strenuous hikes, and share it all with my lovely partner. The short version of the story: in 1949 an Ogala Lakota Indian elder named Henry Standing Bear approached an up and coming sculptor, Korczak Ziolkowski , about doing a large scale work to show the world that Indians also had great heroes.

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The Agony and Ecstasy of Selling My First Company

Feld Thoughts

It 1993, I sold my first company, Feld Technologies, to a company called Sage Alerting Systems (which, after several name changes, became AmeriData Technologies.) It was a six month journey for me and my partner Dave Jilk which was at some points exciting, often stressful, and occasionally extremely confusing.