Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

For businesses to have a successful marketing strategy, they must first have a defined target audience. Along with making sure your brand reflects your business, who your brand targets is also an important consideration. When thinking of a name for her studio, she wanted to embrace her diversity, culture, and interests.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

” “ Before you have a product, a company or product name, a domain name, business cards, a logo – even before you have a company. Use the information you learn to refine your product, approach, and pitch. Often businesses evolve so differently to what we initially envision.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs). Company name: SOULA (legal name MAMATECH Inc.) It is currently raising a seed round to invest in business development and grow its product development.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

Highlighting and building around this synergy can ensure that an athlete, entertainer, or executive’s involvement goes beyond the cap table to actual engagement with your company’s ethos and product. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Customers can smell inauthenticity a mile away.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. Then, build a simple landing page showcasing these renderings and the product’s benefits.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 27, 2022

From incorporating an entity type to Googling possible business names first, here are the 14 answers to the question, “What are some helpful tips for naming an LLC?” Pick a Company Name With an Available Domain Name. Find a Name That Conveys the Purpose or Mission. Pick a Flexible Name.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The cohort’s theses focused on market-driven DeFi, client-driven social protocols, tokens-as-coordination mechanisms, decentralization of all layers, consumer products unbundling, DAOs as risk-pooling mechanisms and so on. Here’s the breakdown behind the 16 startups: Company name: Lulo. Company name: LiquiFi. Stage: Seed round.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Even best-in-class products often feel either too inflexible and unsophisticated to do real work, or have steep, inaccessible learning curves (we’re looking at you, Adobe InDesign). We’ve already seen this with products like Midjourney and ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter. What Will GenAI Native Prosumer Products Look Like?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

For consumer products, the rubber hits the road at retention. To attract repeat users, companies can’t just fill a product with the latest and greatest tech — they must intentionally craft each product feature to ensure their users come back again and again and again. Obsession With Delivering the Core Product Value.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that only about 25% of new businesses will last more than 15 years. And 20% of these same businesses might only reach two years. And 20% of these same businesses might only reach two years. Select a name. You’ve probably heard it countless times: “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You have put a lot of time, effort and your own money into designing and manufacturing a product, or creating your teaching or coaching course. You hope that it will become yet another hit product for you. But before you can get to market, your product or idea is stolen by someone who wants to beat you in the marketplace.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 25, 2021

Rebecca Minkoff , fashion designer and entrepreneur, shared her story, tips for success and answered questions in the Likeable Business club , on Clubhouse. Like many emerging business owners, Rebecca’s start with entrepreneurship started with her being fired from a job. Family Business Harmony. Naming Your Business.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2020

That side hustle can eventually turn into a bona fide business. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. Take this list and translate each hobby or talent into a viable product or service. The second step is to research the market for your product or service.

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StartupNation

MARCH 22, 2021

Starting a new business is exciting. For many entrepreneurs, nothing is more thrilling than building a business that solves a big problem in a unique way. Startup founders have to make many decisions in the days, weeks and months after starting a business. What happens if you pick the wrong business name?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Solid , which rebranded from Wise in 2021, raised a $63 million Series B round of funding to continue providing its fintech-as-a-service offering for companies wanting to launch and scale their own fintech products. We last profiled the company in 2020, before its name change, and after it had picked up both a $5.7

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StartupNation

MARCH 22, 2021

You’ve decided to take the plunge and start your dream business. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. Now it’s time to complete a checklist of necessary tasks to set up and structure your business: Name your business.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

My definition of an entrepreneur is someone who actually owns a business. To own a business means you have formed a legal entity. There are four primary types of legal entity business structures in the United States. Step 1: Name search. A name gives your business life. A step-by-step guide to success.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 17, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founder: Craig Rowland Business: Sandfly Security Founded: April 2018 HQ: Canterbury Can you tell us a bit about your business?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Register Cellico (CEO Kim Jungsuk ) won CES Innovation Awards in three categories: Wearable Technologies, Digital Health, and Accessibility & Aging Tech, for their augmented reality (AR) smart glasses (product name: EyeCane), which they are developing for visually impaired patients.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In the fervor of starting a new business, it’s easy to overlook the long-term impact of a quick company naming decision. Most new business owners worry first and foremost about the more pressing issues of cash flow, staffing, leasing, signage and inventory. Using a literal or descriptive name. That’s not always the case.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Starting a business from scratch is hard and you must know it. The point is whatever business your trying to build its good to have coaching advice and mentoring from people in the space your trying to build. If you want to create an online business, you’re going to need a website. Searching for a new business idea?

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Elisa Phillips, an experienced business leader in digital media, advertising, and emerging technology platforms. She is responsible for Sales, Business Development and Growth Marketing. She is responsible for Sales, Business Development and Growth Marketing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The 8-Part Blueprint For Starting Your (Online) One-Person Business Even alongside your 9–5 Image by Bonnie Kittle from Unsplash Do you have an interest and want to make some extra cash out of it? Thinking about starting a business is as far as most people go. Unfortunately, most of them give up even before trying their passion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

What’s your business model? A lot of my work as a consultant involves helping founders come up with a good fundraising story, but a surprising number of founders seem to get stuck on the next step: Finding the right investors and landing a meeting to pitch their companies. That’s a problem. Your investor has an investment thesis.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Let’s get down to the basics of why preventing churn is a must for your business’s growth and how you can tackle it effectively. Churn is when customers, for one reason or another, decide they’re done with your service or product. It’s pretty simple math, but the repercussions for a business are significant. That’s churn.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

WhatsApp has long transcended its roots as a simple messaging app for friends, and is now a core communication tool for businesses seeking a direct channel to their customers’ pockets — both literally, and metaphorically. Take App: WhatsApp ordering. Take App: Newsletters. The story so far.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Danish company LMS365 , an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. While its corporate name technically remains Elearningforce, the company transitioned to the LMS365 brand back in 2015, intended to reflect its focus on Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Michael Beckley Contributor Share on Twitter Michael Beckley is a co-founder and CTO of Appian , where he drives the technical vision for the company, leads product and solutions marketing teams, and oversees customer initiatives. These legacy systems across various products, customer types, and compliance programs don’t integrate well.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Michael Helander, the CEO and president of OTI (pictured, above), said that the process of coming up with the material was something that OTI could not have done without building and using its own quantum computing-based algorithms — the platform that it is looking to productize alongside this specific material.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I admit that my dad taught me this when I was just a fifteen–year old kid starting a business and negotiating with suppliers for the first time. But I learned it again and again in my various business lives. Here’s a striking example. Offering too little in an acquisition to satisfy the seller?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company’s strategic alliances with prominent names like Lazada, TikTok, and Shopify have allowed users to seamlessly acquire digital collectibles through these platforms using familiar payment methods. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The company, launching publicly today, wants to make it easier for business owners to set up and manage their own 401(k) retirement accounts. The long-term vision for Ocho is to offer products, beyond solo 401(k)s, that help business owners build wealth. Ocho’s twist from competition, he thinks, is in its market focus.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Brett Lovelady is the founder of Astro Studios , now a part of PA Consulting, a design-driven company that empowers designers and strives to capture the value of design in the product, brand, experience and company creation process. Visualizations of products, services, experiences, etc. Branding, naming and communication systems.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

If your service-based business is still collecting paper checks and only knows clients by their first name, Finli has an app for you. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, 9.9% businesses are small businesses. Lori Shao, CEO of Finli Image Credits: Finli.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

In its announcement today, Zoom noted that businesses “need to think differently” today in order to retain talent and build a strong company culture. “Engaging employees and driving culture through connection is no longer a ‘nice to have’ — it’s imperative for success in today’s business environment.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The raise highlights investors’ continued confidence in cybersecurity businesses to net returns, despite the current macroeconomic woes. “The products available required endless tuning and rule-writing and returned piles of false positives. billion between January and June, according to PitchBook. Image Credits: ThreatX.

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StartupNation

JUNE 14, 2021

If you’re starting a business, you’re probably focused on the product or service you’ll sell, but there are other essential tasks you’ll need to tackle, too. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. Your domain name is the internet address — for example, StartupNation.com.

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