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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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Thus, join the ranks of Yahoo, Google, Amazon, eBay, Cisco and Microsoft and focus your limited time and resources on perfecting your customer value proposition, not on devising an ideal company name. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Intuitive URL. Avoid Hyphens.

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10 Startup Shortcuts That Will Be Back To Haunt You

Startup Professionals Musings

It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. Company and product naming may also seem simple, but should be a key early effort, because mistakes can be very costly. Too many founders think it’s more important to work on products and customers.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

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See Also: Got “Founder Fit”? If you do have competition, pay special attention to your product name, price range, materials used, what the product claims to do, packaging, and who the manufacturer is. Here’s an example of a great sell sheet for a product called Well Well Wow! Do you know a specific market’s secret?

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10 Avoidable Mistakes Cause Entrepreneurs Much Pain

Startup Professionals Musings

It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. Company and product naming may also seem simple, but should be a key early effort, because mistakes can be very costly. Too many founders think it’s more important to work on products and customers.

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10 Startup Shortcuts That Will Be Back To Haunt You

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It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. Company and product naming may also seem simple, but should be a key early effort, because mistakes can be very costly. Too many founders think it’s more important to work on products and customers.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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We wanted to embody all those characteristics in our start-up and we symbolically keep Lemmy on our minds with the logo design and company name having a distinctive diaeresis above the second ‘o’: Motörleaf. First, I named the company Rivalee Design in honor of my grandmother. 8- From our tagline.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

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We return to the three revenue models from the beginning of the pitch, introducing the product names for the first time: an ads product called InLeads, a job listings product called Opportunities, and a subscriptions product called Network Plus. Put another way, the ideal financing partner is a financing cofounder.