I was reading a page on company name orgins in Wikipedia and wanted to point you to it HERE.
I'm amazed at how many corporate names are either derived from the names of its founders or cryptic acronyms of a descriptive phrase. It's a good approach since a lot of companies end up doing something entirely different than what it first set out to do. It's a lot better than a new "Web 2.0" startup calling itself iStorage or SmartShopper only to change its business, change its name, and waste a lot of brand equity (ie., mony, time, goodwill) in the process. Well, I guess there would be very little brand equity to begin with and these companies - or "products" - won't last long enough to go through such a change anyway since too many of these endeavors are outfitted to sell "features" to Google ... fair enough.
Hmmm. So, if I had a couple friends named Ram and Raj starting a company, the name could be ...
Amra Systems (for Ram and Raj)
Duora Systems (for two or duo Ram and Raj)
Raside Systems (for Ram and Raj side by side)
... indeed an endless choice of combinations.
It's Sunday afternoon, I have a half dozen mosquito bites on my leg, and I need to accompany my wife to the park and perform my good husband duties. BBL y'all!!!
- John
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