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We struggle with our name: Bitesize Irish Gaelic. It's a language learning tool. The Irish language is called "Irish" in Ireland, but often "Gaelic" elsewhere (depending on who you're speaking with). The name we've ended up with is a mouthful of a compromise :) I don't know if there's a fix for that...
Interestingly yours is the first site listed when Googling "Irish/Gaelic word for learning" so grats on your SEO.
Or, just name your company quickly and move on. We lost a couple weeks early on to naming Matasano, and after some false starts, eventually gave up and thumbed through a list of exotic plants. By the time the book of plants had been opened, the naming premise had been accepted: we were done trying to find a semantically "fitting" name for the company. We just picked a plant with a cool name. We ran into two "problems…
Equity goes into* your name; it usually doesn't get extracted from your name.* -- This is a good articulation to remember.
Or, just name your company quickly and move on. We lost a couple weeks early on to naming Matasano, and after some false starts, eventually gave up and thumbed through a list of exotic plants. By the time the book of plants had been opened, the naming premise had been accepted: we were done trying to find a semantically "fitting" name for the company. We just picked a plant with a cool name. We ran into two "problems…
A good list of considerations. The most important ones I think are still the classic two: 1) Emotive - The name should evoke some sort of emotional connection. This is essential to being memorable and likable. This is why computers.com and chairs.com are not so great for selling computers and chairs unless you are going for mass-market, price-based, SEO-optimized, unbranded sales. 2) Meaning - The name should evoke s…
Something missing here: SEO considerations. It matters less as the days pass, but there is still value to getting an important keyword or two in the domain name (or to be the important keyword, better still). This is especially true if your business is planning to generate lots of business through organic. Especially false if it doesn't.
In light of this, a perfect company name is easy to say over the phone, memorable, and suggestive in roughly that order of importance. A perfect example is "3D Robotics".
Your company name is the only chance you have to verbally communicate everything there is to know about your business in a split second. Your corporate name != your app name, and your app name != your URL.
Or, just name your company quickly and move on. We lost a couple weeks early on to naming Matasano, and after some false starts, eventually gave up and thumbed through a list of exotic plants. By the time the book of plants had been opened, the naming premise had been accepted: we were done trying to find a semantically "fitting" name for the company. We just picked a plant with a cool name. We ran into two "problems…
Braintree is the name of a town in England... I think they came from there. I dont think there was a suggestion of brains on trees.
ask on coWonder and let the crowd decide it http://www.cowonder.com