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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Everybody knows what a product name should be.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and customer discovery findings. We hired union laborers to do that. The same was true for the Product Marketing group. Her new tradeshow manager quickly came to understand that his job was not to set up booths.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Trademarks , which we touched on last week, are brand and product names, graphic logos, slogans, taglines, and other indicators of origin of the goods or services in question. In the Internet era, trademarks and domain names are closely interrelated, and both can be or become extremely valuable.

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

infochachkie.com

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. infoChachkie. Intuitive URL.

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

reidhoffman.org

Time is short — it helps to refer to what those investors already understand. 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.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. We hired union laborers to do that. The same was true for the Product Marketing group. What’s your advice about hiring sales/marketing folks? (I

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided. That of course will mean more referring keyword data will disappear. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines. Implications of Secure Search Decision.

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