i'm trying to make up a name that i want to use for a company, and i really can't think of any, its like my imagination is non existent.. what i wanted to know is how do you make up names, when you need them?
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i'm trying to make up a name that i want to use for a company, and i really can't think of any, its like my imagination is non existent.. what i wanted to know is how do you make up names, when you need them?
Most names I come up with involve puns of one sort or another. When it comes to names for a company, that may not be so appropriate. I'd base the name in some way off what the company does.
Steve Jobs said "start from the generic term for something, then romanticize it", quite a good strategy. But apparently some time ago he suffered an aneurism and just started putting "i" in front of everything.
If you will be providing a service, it might be good to have a shorter name that can be used as a verb to represent using your service, like you say "Google it". It wouldn't sound as well if you wanted to say "Ask Jeeves it" or "Altavista it". Another thing is to avoid names that can easily be misspelled. You want something that people can spell easily and entere [that].com into the browser.
Make sure it isn't trademarked or otherwise copyrighted. Would really bite if company took off only to be sued for infringement of some sort
Oh, here's another thing to consider....
Spell out your company name completely as it would appear in a .com URL. Don't want to go and have to rename your company later due to embarrassment.
True story. A site I used to frequent was called Experts Exchange and their url was, as expected, expertsexchange.com. However, depending on how one could read it, it could be interpreted as ExpertSexChange.com. So they have since renamed their site: experts-exchange.com :)
Reminds me of a funny SNL skit mocking Jeopardy game show. Contestant: Alex, I'll take "The Rapists" for $500. Alex: That's not "the rapists", it is "therapists" !!!
A few more: http://mistupid.com/people/page081.htmQuote:
Originally Posted by LaVolpe
Also reminiscent of a UK story where the town council of S****horpe got all incoming mail blocked by the profanity filter on its email server.
See it even blocked it on here!
Mash up prefixes from an animal, a flower, and an ocean:
Duck, Rose, Atlantic -> Ducrosat
Pig, Tulip, Pacific -> Pitulipac
Snail, Daisy, Indian -> Snadaisin
Wolf, Sunflower, Atlantic -> Wolsunat
"The s c u n t h o r p e problem" :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Benderman
If you touch the name LightFusion™ I'll kill you :mad:
Speaking of which we should start actually making that language =O. Think about it:
http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...id=41468&stc=1
So a set of the right four letters, even if they are embedded in the middle of a string, will trip filters? That kind of suprises me. The word isn't bad, it's the four letters, in that order and consecutive, that is bad.
ArmishGangstaRap LtdQuote:
Originally Posted by Justa Lol
Done and dusted, do I get shares?