Archive for January, 2015

You can name your startup yourself. Should you?

Posted in Company Names, Naming, Startup Names on January 29th, 2015 No Comments »

Founders, you can come up with a good name for your startup on your own. You may be surprised to hear this from The Name Inspector, who is, after all, a naming consultant. So why should anyone hire a naming consultant? Like so many business decisions, it’s a matter of using resources efficiently. Naming takes [...]

Weird startup names of 2014

Posted in Bad Names, Blend Names, Company Names, Creative Spelling, Peculiar, Startup Names on January 5th, 2015 No Comments »

The Name Inspector has been reflecting on last year’s startup names while sipping on what’s left of the apple peel bourbon he made for the holidays. He’s got to say, it seems like some of these companies were named by people who sipped lots of bourbon. Here are some weird names of startups in CrunchBase [...]