How to Choose a Good Company Name-2

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HOW TO CHOOSE A GOOD

COMPANY NAME


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You can create GOOD COMPANYNames using this ideas

a name which are connected to yournature of business

a name which is meaningful a name which is easy to pronounce orremember a name which is very unique / different

/ extraordinary a name which is connected to future

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a name which should not be used byothers

a name which gives you hope a name which brings luck a name is combination of directors

names

a coined word which sound nice

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name of place connected to yourbusiness

a name which is extraordinary

a name which is different of others a name which is futuristic sounding a name which is easy to spell a name which sounds good in different

languages but has a meaning


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a name which takes into accountnumerology

a name which has a shortform meaning

a name which bring power a name which is a combination of twowords

a name in English Language or Bahasa

Malaysia preferably a name which can be registered as a dot-

com domain name


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Yahoo!

The word was invented byJonathan Swift and used in hisbook Gulliver's Travels. Itrepresents a person who isrepulsive in appearance andaction and is barely human.Yahoo! founders Jerry Yangand David Filo selected thename because they consideredthemselves yahoos.

The name Yahoo! is an acronymfor "Yet Another Hierarchical

Officious Oracle," but Filo andYang insist they selected thename because they liked thegeneral definition of a yahoo:"rude, unsophisticated,uncouth."


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Xerox

The Greek root "xer"means dry. Theinventor, Chestor

Carlson, named hisproduct Xerox as itwas dry copying,markedly differentfrom the thenprevailing wetcopying.


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Sun Microsystems

Founded by fourStanford Universitybuddies, Sun is the

acronym forStanford UniversityNetwork.


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Sony

From the Latinword 'sonus'meaning sound, and

'sonny' a slang usedby Americans torefer to a brightyoungster.


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SAP

"Systems,Applications, Productsin Data Processing",formed by four ex-IBMemployees who used towork in the'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM. "Systems, Applications,Products in Data

Processing", formed byfour ex-IBM employeeswho used to work in the'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.


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Red Hat

Company founder MarcEwing was given theCornell lacrosse teamcap (with red and white

stripes) while at collegeby his grandfather. Helost it and had to searchfor it desperately. Themanual of the beta

version of Red HatLinux had an appeal toreaders to return hisRed Hat if found byanyone!


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ORACLE

Larry Ellison and BobOats were working on aconsulting project forthe Central IntelligenceAgency (CIA). The codename for the projectwas called Oracle (theCIA saw this as the

system to give answersto all questions orsomething such).


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MOTOROLA

Founder Paul Galvincame up with thisname when his

company startedmanufacturingradios for cars. Thepopular radiocompany at the timewas called Victrola.


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Microsoft

It was coined by BillGates to representthe company that

was devoted toMICROcomputerSOFTware.Originally

christened Micro-Soft, the '-' wasremoved later on.


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Lotus Notes

Mitch Kapor got thename for hiscompany from the

lotus position or'padmasana.' Kaporused to be a teacherof Transcendental

Meditation ofMaharishi MaheshYogi.


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Intel

Bob Noyce andGordon Moorewanted to nametheir new company'Moore Noyce' butthat was alreadytrademarked by ahotel chain, so theyhad to settle for anacronym ofINTegratedELectronics.


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Hewlett-Packard

Bill Hewlett andDave Packardtossed a coin to

decide whether thecompany theyfounded would becalled Hewlett-

Packard or Packard-Hewlett.


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Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got theidea of accessing email viathe web from a computeranywhere in the world. WhenSabeer Bhatia came up with

the business plan for themail service, he tried allkinds of names ending in'mail' and finally settled forHotmail as it included theletters "html" - the

programming language usedto write web pages. It wasinitially referred to asHoTMaiL with selectiveupper casings.


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Google

The name started as ajockey boast about theamount of information thesearch-engine would be ableto search. It was originally

named 'Googol', a word forthe number represented by 1followed by 100 zeros. Afterfounders - Stanford graduatestudents Sergey Brin andLarry Page presented their

project to an angel investor,they received a chequemade out to 'Google

Brin: We were thinking about very largenumbers ... so we came up with the term"googol" which is the mathematical termfor 10 to the hundredth (power). Thecorrect spelling was g-o-o-g-o-l and I'm

not sure that we realized that we hadmade a spelling error. But that was taken,anyway. There was this guy who'd alreadyregistered Googol.com, and I tried to buyit from him, but he was fond of it. So wewent with Google.


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Cisco

The name is not anacronym but anabbreviation of San

Francisco. Thecompany's logoreflects its SanFrancisco name

heritage. Itrepresents astylized GoldenGate Bridge.


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Apple

Favourite fruit offounder Steve Jobs. Hewas three months latein filing a name for thebusiness, and hethreatened to call hiscompany AppleComputers if the other

colleagues didn'tsuggest a better nameby 5 o'clock.


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Linux

It got its namebecause itsfounders got started

by applying patchesto code written forNCSA's httpddaemon. The result

was 'A PAtCHy'server - thus, thename Apache.


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Adobe

The name camefrom the river AdobeCreek that ran

behind the house offounder JohnWarnock.

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