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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. I was burned out by the time I was half way through picking the name, domain name, and working on the layout. Apr 27 2010.

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Crowdsourcing Your Product Name

Software By Rob

Product naming is hard. Too many factors come into play when looking for a name and it’s almost impossible to decide on the right name once you’ve stared at the same list for a week straight. The Approach A while back Patrick contacted a handful of Academy members and asked for opinions on potential product names.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

I was having a second coffee with an ex student, now the head of a marketing inside a rapidly growing startup. His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. What I was hearing was a failure of management. All good news.

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7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services.

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How Businesses Can Build, Monitor, and Repair Their Online Reputation

Up and Running

The proactive solution to this predicament is Online Reputation Management. What is Online Reputation Management? Online Reputation Management, or ORM, refers to strategies and techniques that influence what information about your business can be found online. Online review management. Managing negative feedback.

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7 Reasons To Think Globally While Still New And Local

Startup Professionals Musings

This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services.

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The Secret Sauce Of Start-Up Success

YoungUpstarts

Identify a Large Total Addressable Market. Many businesses don’t spend enough time thinking through the market that they potentially could address. What can I learn from adjacent markets that will help me? Can a competitor’s product name be easily substituted for my company’s brand?

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