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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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6 Tips to Choosing a Great Company/Product Name

www.startupnextdoor.com

The Self-Serve Startup » 6 Tips to Choosing a Great Company/Product Name. When naming your company you’re naming your baby. So give your baby a name that will still be a good name when she’s all grown up. The product name is not special in any way. Venture without Capital.

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The 5 Biggest Turn-Offs On A Company Website

YoungUpstarts

By Litha Ramirez, Director of User Experience of Breakthrough Technologies. The internet is growing increasingly visual, and while photos and videos are certainly an important part of web design, they can’t come at the expense of clarity. Avoiding these five common web design pitfalls is essential for maintaining a competitive edge.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Today, it can sign one deal with a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to replace all of the above. 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. Intellectual property.

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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. Intuitive URL. Avoid Hyphens.

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

Steve Blank

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. It became [.]

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High and Low Tech Ways to Promote Your Business

The Startup Magazine

People want to be informed about the products they’re buying, and a key source of information comes from company websites. Without a web presence, businesses are failing to engage new clients and provide the data customers desire. Once a company is online, it needs people to be able to locate it easily.