Company Name and logo?
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Yeah, pick a temporary name and logo, make some money and look at it again in a couple of years when you can afford to hire professionals to do the logo, register the trademark and a good domain etc etc. Obsessing with the name and image of a company before you've even started making money is a very bad thing. Focus on business first, image second when you can afford to do it properly.
While I would agree generally, in IT you MUST look good since the beginning. There are too many competitors, and probably sadly the appearance is more important than substance. Most of the people tend to say "Oh, look at their website! It's SOOO ugly" and then look for someone else. IMHO. :)
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Yeah, pick a temporary name and logo, make some money and look at it again in a couple of years when you can afford to hire professionals to do the logo, register the trademark and a good domain etc etc. Obsessing with the name and image of a company before you've even started making money is a very bad thing. Focus on business first, image second when you can afford to do it properly.
I would disagree, appearance is important (that is why companies have pretty girls at the reception). So when you give out your business card to someone, he should think that this guy and his business is serious. You don't want a email id that ends with ...@yahoo.com or ...@msn.com etc, etc.
-Prakash
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Hi guys, I am thinking of starting a company. Well, initially it will be a one man company and I will be working on small projects but I hope to make it big in the coming years. I have lots of software ideas which I would like to create under a good name, so any ideas. (Ofcourse some of them will surely make it to CodeProject in the form of articles) ;) I will mostly be working with C++, ATL, MFC, C# and ASP.NET and the Windows platform for now. I want the name and logo to capture what I do in a light kind of way. I really like code-frog and his logo. :rolleyes: Something similar and orginal. So any ideas??? :)
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HakunaMatada wrote:
I really like code-frog
How about code-:badger: ? :) Actually, how about
HM-softor something related to your nick/name, or an abreviation etc?"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Hi guys, I am thinking of starting a company. Well, initially it will be a one man company and I will be working on small projects but I hope to make it big in the coming years. I have lots of software ideas which I would like to create under a good name, so any ideas. (Ofcourse some of them will surely make it to CodeProject in the form of articles) ;) I will mostly be working with C++, ATL, MFC, C# and ASP.NET and the Windows platform for now. I want the name and logo to capture what I do in a light kind of way. I really like code-frog and his logo. :rolleyes: Something similar and orginal. So any ideas??? :)
--- :beer: Hakuna-Matada :beer: It means no worries for the rest of your days... It's our problem free, Philosophy :jig: It’s rather simple to write an unmanaged C++ application that crashes when it performs a callback. It’s impossible to write a managed application that does the same, thanks to delegates. - Jeff Prosise
Business name, log, domain, etc. are important, but building the projects are a bigger priority. Once you are close to market (or at least betas), then worry about that stuff. It is amazing how you can sometimes pick up a name when you are not trying ;) An example, my first computer business was Software Unlimited. That was a nice name and fit my business. After all the letter head, business cards, etc, I found that many other companies thought it was a good name also, as they were using it in different locations around the USA. It can be hard to figure out a unique name that has a matching domain, but it is harder to build the brand for the name. About anything can be a good name as long as you build the brand for it.
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I would disagree, appearance is important (that is why companies have pretty girls at the reception). So when you give out your business card to someone, he should think that this guy and his business is serious. You don't want a email id that ends with ...@yahoo.com or ...@msn.com etc, etc.
-Prakash
I understood him to be starting is how ISV software company, not consulting. In that case I can tell you from experience it's the applications support and pricing that matter, the company name and log are easily distant 30th or even further down the list of things that are important.
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Hi guys, I am thinking of starting a company. Well, initially it will be a one man company and I will be working on small projects but I hope to make it big in the coming years. I have lots of software ideas which I would like to create under a good name, so any ideas. (Ofcourse some of them will surely make it to CodeProject in the form of articles) ;) I will mostly be working with C++, ATL, MFC, C# and ASP.NET and the Windows platform for now. I want the name and logo to capture what I do in a light kind of way. I really like code-frog and his logo. :rolleyes: Something similar and orginal. So any ideas??? :)
--- :beer: Hakuna-Matada :beer: It means no worries for the rest of your days... It's our problem free, Philosophy :jig: It’s rather simple to write an unmanaged C++ application that crashes when it performs a callback. It’s impossible to write a managed application that does the same, thanks to delegates. - Jeff Prosise
Rocky has the right idea - the name will pop out of it's own accord sometimes and then you cna design the logo. Elaine :rose:
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Hi guys, I am thinking of starting a company. Well, initially it will be a one man company and I will be working on small projects but I hope to make it big in the coming years. I have lots of software ideas which I would like to create under a good name, so any ideas. (Ofcourse some of them will surely make it to CodeProject in the form of articles) ;) I will mostly be working with C++, ATL, MFC, C# and ASP.NET and the Windows platform for now. I want the name and logo to capture what I do in a light kind of way. I really like code-frog and his logo. :rolleyes: Something similar and orginal. So any ideas??? :)
--- :beer: Hakuna-Matada :beer: It means no worries for the rest of your days... It's our problem free, Philosophy :jig: It’s rather simple to write an unmanaged C++ application that crashes when it performs a callback. It’s impossible to write a managed application that does the same, thanks to delegates. - Jeff Prosise
How about "Sharp Soft"? A mix of C# and Software.
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HakunaMatada wrote:
I really like code-frog
How about code-:badger: ? :) Actually, how about
HM-softor something related to your nick/name, or an abreviation etc?"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
~ Web SQL Utility - asp.net app to query Access, SQL server, MySQL. Stores history, favourites.
Ashley van Gerven wrote:
code- ? HM-soft
I think code is better than soft, there're too many website named abcsoft.com nowadays.
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Hi guys, I am thinking of starting a company. Well, initially it will be a one man company and I will be working on small projects but I hope to make it big in the coming years. I have lots of software ideas which I would like to create under a good name, so any ideas. (Ofcourse some of them will surely make it to CodeProject in the form of articles) ;) I will mostly be working with C++, ATL, MFC, C# and ASP.NET and the Windows platform for now. I want the name and logo to capture what I do in a light kind of way. I really like code-frog and his logo. :rolleyes: Something similar and orginal. So any ideas??? :)
--- :beer: Hakuna-Matada :beer: It means no worries for the rest of your days... It's our problem free, Philosophy :jig: It’s rather simple to write an unmanaged C++ application that crashes when it performs a callback. It’s impossible to write a managed application that does the same, thanks to delegates. - Jeff Prosise
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Hi guys, I am thinking of starting a company. Well, initially it will be a one man company and I will be working on small projects but I hope to make it big in the coming years. I have lots of software ideas which I would like to create under a good name, so any ideas. (Ofcourse some of them will surely make it to CodeProject in the form of articles) ;) I will mostly be working with C++, ATL, MFC, C# and ASP.NET and the Windows platform for now. I want the name and logo to capture what I do in a light kind of way. I really like code-frog and his logo. :rolleyes: Something similar and orginal. So any ideas??? :)
--- :beer: Hakuna-Matada :beer: It means no worries for the rest of your days... It's our problem free, Philosophy :jig: It’s rather simple to write an unmanaged C++ application that crashes when it performs a callback. It’s impossible to write a managed application that does the same, thanks to delegates. - Jeff Prosise
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