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“One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital” – Part II, featuring Victor Echevarria, Chris Neumann, Micah Rosenbloom, Alex von Tobel and Roseanne Wincek.

Hunter Walker

investors don’t care who else is in the round In fact, the experience of founders in Manchester, Montreal and Memphis are far more alike than they are different (at least, according to the numbers). I gave this advice to a couple entrepreneurs once that were killing themselves trying to find away to keep their company from going to zero.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Coming up with a business name can be one of the most challenging tasks that an entrepreneur will ever face. I’ll be honest, when I’m naming a business or a blog (I’m a bit of a serial entrepreneur), I always turn to a process I call ‘drunken brainstorming.’ McCarthy, On-Purpose Partners ! #17- Photo Credit: Richard Taylor.

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Gaurav Dhillon 2.0 and His All New Integration Company

Ben's Blog

Gaurav Dhillon was one of the great enterprise entrepreneurs of the ‘90s and early 2000s. Ordinarily, we would automatically disqualify an entrepreneur with such a massive financial success from funding, so when he came into pitch us on his new company SnapLogic I was skeptical. Informatica is currently worth over $4B. Conclusion.

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BUZZ Doesn’t Equal BUY: Three Factors To Look For When Seeking Stocks With Long-Term Value

YoungUpstarts

One of those real-world examples is FedEx, the Memphis-based delivery company. When I visited Fred Smith, chairman and CEO of FedEx, at his Memphis headquarters, he said strategy was his company’s top priority. Karlgaard hails FedEx for being strong on all three sides of his triangle of lasting success.

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Attention: Female Founders on the Rise

The Startup Magazine

The research suggested the best states for startup activity included New York, Memphis and Dallas. However, workforce implications for women entrepreneurs in training and professional development are profound and not so good. Offer female entrepreneurs business services that are different. Native Hawaiian/Pacific. Non-Minority.

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Transcript of Secrets to Finishing What You Start

Duct Tape Marketing

Jon Acuff: Yeah well I mean part of what I wanted to do with this, I had a researcher from the University of Memphis approach me and say hey, I want to study what you do and see if it works. Jon Acuff: I think you know, starting a business, running a business, being an entrepreneur, all these things I think that it’s all just data.