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30 Entrepreneur 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. The name To Tony Productions is a dedication to my cousin and close friend Anthony Ranoiccha III, or Tony, as the family would call him.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How will you differentiate from these? Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? Refer a friend? Who are your big competitors? What are some good examples of similar sites? What special data, content, APIs, etc. are you going to leverage? What’s the state of the relationships that brings you that data?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How will you differentiate from these? Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? Refer a friend? Who are your big competitors? What are some good examples of similar sites? What special data, content, APIs, etc. are you going to leverage? What’s the state of the relationships that brings you that data?

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

Smart is simply not a differentiator. If I were looking at which VCs to choose I would reference strongly for which ones are supportive in good times and bad. The best way – of course – is to reference check. Here’s how you reference check a VC (link to post with longer version). Startups are hard.

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

To make one’s social CRM strategy come alive, the book proposes the following key ideas: 1) Adopt a strategy canvas approach (ala Blue Ocean Strategy ) to differentiate your business from the “red oceans” of competitors. Having said that, Metz does provide lots of useful links and references throughout the volume.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

No one had differentiated a startup job description from a large company job. This year, marketing needs to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter. It wasn’t that I had somehow inherited dumb employees.

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Why You Should Consider Renaming Your Business (And How To Do It Right)

YoungUpstarts

A great business name identifies your business, tells your customers and prospects something meaningful about your brand , and helps to differentiate your business from your competition. But what should you do if the name you’ve been using for your business isn’t effective at accomplishing those goals? 3 Your Name is Not Unique.

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