A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

I see the name of Noel’s company. Why don’t you give Jason the name of your company or your URL? We’re an integrate from that company but we had a lot of regret in hindsight when it came with the name that we picked. But we managed to grow a few customers, so that’s good, in spite of the name.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2016

Grand Rapids is also home to StartGarden, a startup accelerator with the goal of turning Michigan into a flourishing business ecosystem. Small Business Development Center Michigan. While they ranked second overall as the best city in which to start a business, Grand Rapids ranked first in terms of average small business growth.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

I’ll get your name included in a contest to give away an IdeaKeg Single. To enter, please meet Gregg Fraley at FEI 2013 or email your name, role, company name, email address and work telephone to ignite@kilnco.com. If you are attending FEI, please come see me and give me a business card.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

With a mission to provide the best executive education online with brand-name academic institutions, authors, and experts; CorpU is a trusted advisor to world-leading organizations and is in the best position to bring “branded” higher education to the corporate market. Monday, June 13th.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Fortifying Profits: Strategies to Shield Your Business from Embezzlement written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Todd Rammler, president and founder of Michigan CFO Associates. Todd (20:01): Yeah, sure.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site? Name, a unique persistent customer id (Geek ID), the keyword the person came on and their underwear size. Well just assume. :).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2022

Laura earned an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BFA at Carnegie Mellon University. She an MBA from the university of Michigan and a BFA at Carnegie Mellon university. So we've mentioned the name signpost, it's just signpost.com. So Laura, welcome to the show. Laura Nelson (01:15): Hi Jen. Thanks for having me.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Laura earned an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BFA at Carnegie Mellon University. Sharon, an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BFA at Carnegie Mellon University. So we've mentioned the name signpost, it's just signpost.com. So, Laura, welcome to the show. Laura Nelson (01:13): Hi, Jen. Thanks for having me.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

I’m a week and a half old in Ann Arbor, Michigan, so it was quite interesting to talk to another Startup founder over a falafel wrap. So if you’re an early stage thinking about how to name your Startups and small biz brands, read on… About the Startup. The first time I read the name, it puzzled me.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. Rockmelt’s CTO Tim Howes began his Internet career by inventing the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) with his colleagues at the University of Michigan. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Michigan Cottage Cheese: Yoplait Yogurt. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. CIVC had a number of highly successful non-technology investments made in the late 1970’s timeframe, such as: LB Foster: Repurposed old train tracks. National Demographics: Mailing Lists.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

It’s altogether fitting and proper that in a college named after Rachel Carson , to share four short stories of what happened when truth and justice faced money and power – for the seven years I served as a public official on the California Coastal Commission. And I’ve sat on the boards of other local and national non-profits.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The name of your company, Every Two Minutes, reflects that every two minutes in the United States, a person is sexually assaulted. I also received help from my alma mater Michigan State University through Spartan Innovations and participated in the Conqueror Accelerator. Tell us more about what drove the inception of your company.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Midwest. And while we gave those policies polite names like globalization and outsourcing, the consequences have wreaked havoc on towns like Janesville.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Ann Arbor is the home to the University of Michigan where biomedical research projects get pushed out as startups. We all go to the same entrepreneur events, know each other by name, and find that people within the ecosystem tend to be supportive and enjoy mentoring budding startups. Tell us about the startup ecosystem there.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

Our Michigan operations weren't shut down quite as badly. Scroll back to top Sign up to receive email updates Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. The JAM team has produced and delivered over 3500 playful corporate events, in over 30 countries since the summer of 2020.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 2, 2022

Just to name a few, he's a co-creator of the HBO series vinyl and a contributing editor at rolling stone. My, my father's the guy who sort of popularized win-win I believe which he'd taken from game theory where he, he taught at the university of Michigan and he worked on game theory. His name is Mao. This is John Jantsch.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Pure Michigan is a Damaged Brand. As a Michigan resident I’ve followed the developments in Flint with a mixture of horror, sadness, outrage, and confusion. The focus of this post is about the damage that has been done to the state of Michigan’s brand, Pure Michigan. Pure Michigan is (or was) a brilliant brand.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2013

Though I’m back in Michigan now, I still work with CFI, five years later. You never know where your email will be forwarded, who will see your business card, what customer will mention your name, and so on. Once a customer has your name, can they find you? What does this mean for your business? Get more info about that here.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about Why the name?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2016

If you want to bring a smile to people’s faces when they hear your company name, you’ll need to understand how memory works and how you can design for it. According to Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine… Two main processes are used to access memories: recognition and recall. How Memory Works.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Miss New York, now Miss America, is a Syracuse native and University of Michigan graduate, her name is Nina Davuluri. I thought, so that’s who won the contest this year — can we please get to the baseball scores? It would appear others had a different reaction.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Where are the charitable foundations, business schools and hospitals named after him? William Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint Michigan in 1947. Sloan is not the only guy who got foundations named after him – if you have money to donate universities will be all too happy to create chairs and schools in your name.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2012

Some states have introduced or partially passed B Corp-related legislation, including Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Sweeney: A corporation has a single focus, namely, to maximize profits for its shareholders. [Today,] Washington is set to become the eighth state [to allow] B Corps.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2016

I followed this gut instinct and launched HourglassAngel.com during the summer of my junior year at the University of Michigan: a site created with just a $4,500 investment. Making a contribution of my own, under my own name, was a huge inspiration for stepping out of the corporate culture.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

By some miracle I got into the University of Michigan, and soon started passing classes by developing strong relationships with my professors rather than living in the library. I’ve always had a passion for photography, so while at U of M I joined the Michigan Daily (the campus student publication) as a photographer. Let’s back up.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

Fast Company named Nina one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. Brandon teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship. What we’d see is sometimes people would be quoted as thought leaders and (we’d) write down their names (and) reach out to them. Steve : What does that mean?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2011

After OfficeMax’s first year, we’d actually grown nicely and were operating stores in Ohio, New York, and Michigan. Others will refuse to utter your name. He takes emotion out of the equation, gathers the facts, decides where he wants to go, and determines how to get there. But rest easy.

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View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

We provide an opportunity to finally get paid and work under their own name, which in turn frees them from the treadmill of constant content creation and allows them to focus on their trade. For creatives, we’re a premium, value-aligned partner to help grow their networks and portfolios, and monetize their passions.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2014

Currently, you can form an L3C in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, and in the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Pros of The L3C Structure. What is a PRI? PRI is an acronym for Program Related Investment.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

She was named Adweek Media’s “Publishing Executive of the Year” in 2009. min magazine named her one of the “Most Intriguing People” of 2004, Gotham magazine named her one of its “40 under 40” in 2003, and Advertising Age named her a “Woman to Watch” in 2003. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 16, 2011

In any event, at least at some point during this cup of coffee I look out the window, I can see people waiting for the bus to go to work, the shuffling of the city, and of course the awesomeness of Lake Michigan , and I remind myself of how grateful I am for the life I have. I don’t spend too much time on most of these. Joint Ventures.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. We moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore in 2015, and it was a great decision for us. Little did I realize how apt of a name that would be.

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Up and Running

APRIL 30, 2015

Her extensive online influence and unique approach to coaching business owners to success has won her the attention of national and international media, including Forbes.com, which named her one of “30 Women Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter,” and Hubspot, which called her one of the “100 Most Powerful Women on Twitter.”.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 1, 2013

Insert celebrity name here] endorses product X, so it must be good. Books that have “Harvard Classics” written on the cover can sell for twice the price, adding a well-known designers’ name to a pair of jeans triples the price etc. Insert celebrity name here] endorses product X, so it(.) The experiment.

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