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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

9- A merger of two companies. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. With that merger, half of each of our business’ names also merged, and that’s how we came up with ‘Enventys Partners’. Photo Credit: Roy Morejon.

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Twitter Link Roundup #155 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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The Ugly Numbers Behind The Viggle-GetGlue Merger | TechCrunch – [link]. 35 Beautiful Unusual Web Designs - [link]. 14 Beautiful Content-Heavy Websites for Inspiration – [link]. 20 Web Development Tutorials Important For All Novices – [link]. Sorry, No Calls (by @ dharmesh ) - [link].

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. Don't get me wrong, I wanted too, but many years down the line.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. In one recent deal, Arizona Bay agreed to invest $140,000 worth of website development work in a company called Pro Player Connect.

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