Cinventure - For the Cincinnati Entrepreneur

Don’t:

Use redundant words
Sound shady
Be lurid
Use triple words
Sound desperate

Do:

Go medieval
Name it like a Spanish restaurant
Like it like something Captain Kirk would wrestle

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