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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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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. I came up with my company name by asking myself, what will I be doing often? When I was naming it, I had a few criteria.

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[Review] CloudMounter For Mac

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CloudMounter, as the name suggests, helps you eliminate this limitation by allowing you to mount most of the cloud storage services in the form of a local disk. Finder friendly: Eltima has done a bang-up job by squashing initial bugs and enhancing overall functionality by allowing integration with Finder.

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Face.com Gets $4.3 Million from Russian Yandex and Rhodium

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The tagging widget uses faces.detect to automatically place tags on people's faces, and allows users to add names. Face.com was founded in 2007 by Gil Hirsch (CEO), Yaniv Taigman (CTO), Moti Sneiberg and Eden Shochat (Eden is also one of Face.com’s investors and today serves as a partner in Gensis).

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How to Get Funding for a Business

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If you are looking for names and addresses of venture capitalists , start with the internet. The names and addresses of venture capitalists are also available in a couple of annual directories: The Western Association of Venture Capitalists publishes an annual directory. Commercial lenders. Need help finding a business loan?

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14 Points To Consider When Structuring A Deal

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An effective way of generating cashflow without having to do all the sales and marketing effort of a deal is being able to license out your value, but having someone else’s name on the product or services. Usually there is a finders fee that is lower than a Third Party Marketer who is doing all the work to actually close the deal.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

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Henry Sy, the guy behind the world-famous SM Malls, is a household name in the Philippines. Thanks to Nick Edwards, Snow Finders ! #3- He has also been named CEO of the Shark Group, a brand consultancy firm. Trader's Joe is his store's name. Thanks to Ryan Jeffords, BHPH ! #2- 2- Henry Sy. Photo Credit: Nick Edwards.

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Business Startup Tools: A Curated List of Our Favorite Tools and Resources to Build Your Company

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Choosing a name. NameCheckr : What’s great about NameCheckr is that in addition to automatically looking up available domain names associated with your chosen business name, it checks a ton of relevant social platforms, from Facebook to Youtube to see if the name is available there. Didn’t find a satisfactory name?