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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Our name, Lubanzi, comes from a wandering dog that followed me and my co-founder on a 6 day, 100 mile trip hiking across South Africa’s remote Wild Coast. Known as a Caravel in England, their design made them ideal for navigating to unknown territories and through uncharted waters. Photo Credit: Carlos Castelán.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Our mission is to help design lovers buy and sell chic furnishings in a beautiful, easy-to-use and super fun marketplace. After quickly discovering our problem was by no means unique, voilà! Chairish was born! Since then over 20,000 sellers and over 1 million shoppers have connected through Chairish. Image Credit: Saleem Jaffer.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We had designed our digital passport card on the use of an orange background. We have some design resources in house but we are always looking for different perspectives or focused effort on both small and large projects.

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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

10:00] Back in South Africa you got shot, what did that story mean to your journey? [11:53] I know these are themes we'll be chatting about today, but I had five designers trying to come up with what it meant to be unemployable and no one could convey that in imagery. Let's go back to South Africa.

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Slyde Handboards – Shredding A New Wave For Surfing

YoungUpstarts

Venice, California-based Slyde Handboards is a small company founded in 2010 that aims to create an entirely new innovative and design driven brand and subculture centered around the sport of handboarding or bodysurfing. Today, the sport is popular as ever, and Slyde Handboards intend to ride that wave and shred a whole new destiny.

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Master mobile navigation

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We reveal the top 50 books for web designers and developers. Have you broken our 10 New Year's resolutions for designers yet? This article first appeared in issue 232 of.net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. Design services that people fall in love with.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

During my renovation, I was attending a web design class and at the pinnacle of everything starting to fall apart with our project, our instructor announced we were to select a domain name and register it. from South Africa, and battling breast cancer, I became overwhelmingly humbled by the toughness, the tenacity of my experience.

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