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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Domain Name/Basic Site. Why use your real name? We require the use of your full name to authenticate your identity.

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Episode 19: Time Tracking and Maximizing Profits with Matt Rissell

Mike Michalowicz

Matt Rissell is the co-founder and CEO of TSheets, an Eagle, Idaho-based technology firm that provides online, GPS-powered time tracking for companies with hourly employees. Matt started TSheets, his sixth successful startup venture, in 2006, after discovering a gap in the employee time tracking and reporting market. Show Quotes.

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

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They can be positive (such as indicating that the form was submitted successfully) or negative (“The user name you have selected is already taken”). Base the name of the form on its purpose. That name will inform users what the form is about and why they should fill it in. Skype ’s registration form contains all six components.

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Happiness Begins With Gratitude

Duct Tape Marketing

And as we were talking before we got started in Boise, Idaho right now. I may end up in, uh, Boise, Idaho, when, when airplanes start flying for me again, Dr. Sophia Godkin (22:39): Thank you so much for having me, John, and yes, if you're ever in Boise, um, I would love to connect in person. Dr. Sophia Godkin (02:33): Yeah.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. The banks lobbied regulators in Louisiana , New York , California, and Idaho and soon they were issuing injunctions forcing PayPal to delay their IPO. Yet this is where startups will run into anti-innovation opponents they may not expect.

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Sorry Idaho, Employee Noncompetes Are a Scourge

Hunter Walker

NYTimes Conor Dougherty covers the use of employee noncompetes in Idaho as a weapon in the conflict between local existing companies and startups. What’s crazy about Idaho’s law is how far it tips against the individual. What’s crazy about Idaho’s law is how far it tips against the individual.

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10 Classic Business Naming Mistakes

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Legal isn’t the whole issue with names. Lots of legal names work fine until you grow and run into somebody else with the same name, in the same business area, who had it first. But when they started to grow, Victoria’s Secret would have had legal right to force them to come up with a new name.

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