You're not limiting your own personal image when you don't
name your company after yourself.
Rather than
naming the company after its first product, they suggested building an overall brand identity and then using the power of the superbrand to launch subsequent products.
Cofounders Ariel Nelson and Lane Gerson
named their company after their fathers: «Two men who appreciate great shoes, but who will never pay more than $ 200 on a pair.»
Richard Romanoff had roots in the Cornhusker State — his great - grandfather had a beef business there — and when he founded Nebraskaland in 1989,
he named his company after the state that knew a thing or two about meat.
Richard Romanoff founded Nebraskaland in 1989 and
named the company after the state that ranks first in commercial red meat production and second for having the most cattle and cows.
They named the company after their father, the late Guido Masiero.
The Datil pepper has been a staple in the lives of Minorcans living in St. Augustine for centuries so
we named our company after the culture we inherited.
When Rob and Henry started the company, four Pittsburgh moms were their first focus group, and their insights were so valuable that Rob and Henry decided to
name the company after them.
So
naming my company after 305 was a way to reclaim my power and build my own Miami, in another city.
They named the company after Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia who was reportedly quite a young lady and a role model for young Russian women.
This company was founded by Rob Downey who
named the company after his mother, Anna Mae.
They named the company after both men's favourite diving site, Stubbs Island.
He named the company after the Roman god of commerce and good fortune.
Reverie Labs» founders Connor Duffy, Ankit Gupta and Jonah Kallenbach, who
named their company after a pivotal detail in the HBO series «Westworld,» explain that its tech analyzes early ideas for molecules from pharmaceutical scientists and suggests possible improvements to shorten the amount of time it takes to reach clinical trials.
He named the company after the group of high - quality wines to reflect what he calls his company's blend of high - quality professionals.
«So instead of
naming the company after the town of Orange, I named it after the person the town was named after.
Not exact matches
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a subpoena to Riot Blockchain, the cryptocurrency
company whose stock skyrocketed
after changing its
name.
He headed up Bausch & Lomb until the eye care specialist was snatched up by the (now - infamous) Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); sat at the top perch of Forest Laboratories before becoming CEO of that
company's acquirer, Actavis, in 2014; and, finally, took over as the top dog at Allergan
after Actavis bought it and adopted the Botox - maker's
name.
To that end, Blue Ant —
named after a fictional marketing
company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.
Great Southern receiver McGrathNicol has opted to wind up the olive schemes operated by the fallen agribusiness
company after failing to overcome a stalemate with two of the biggest
names in Western Australian horticulture.
Schott highlighted the four
names J.P. Morgan finds most attractive
after the latest earnings season, complete with updates on
company performance.
Initially called the Three Fired Guys Brewing
Company, the
name changed to Steam Whistle in 1999
after Heaps suggested that they put a steam whistle on the factory to let workers know when it was five o'clock.
Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit
companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.
Parent
company Frito - Lay developed and released all three and
named Cheesy Garlic Bread the winner in May 2013,
after more than 1 million consumers voted via Facebook, Twitter or text.
In the startup world, the odds of a
company achieving a valuation of $ 1 billion or more is considered so slim, it's
named after a mythical beast — the unicorn.
Her
company Alex and Ani,
named after her two eldest daughters, doesn't only sell bangles and charms.
Founded in Toyko in 1937, the
company was known as Kwanon,
named after a Buddhist figure.
She said the
company isn't taking any more applications
after gathering about 1,500
names, adding workers are being referred for jobs with a preference given to those from Fort McMurray.
Founded in 1972, Sequoia has become a household
name in the Silicon Valley VC community
after backing
companies like Apple, Google, and Instagram in their early days.
After being
named a contestant on Nick's season of The Bachelor, she immediately blasted the news across her
company's social media accounts.
After concluding that its $ 8 app was unlikely to get approved because of Apple's rules prohibiting camera applications, Snapture, a
company that makes a camera - enhancing app that goes by the same
name, opted to sell on Cydia instead.
Appleby, who founded YogaForce, a
company that designs and sells yoga clothing and mats, started doing doga a few years ago
after she adopted a Pomeranian puppy
named Madison.
After a theme dinner replete with hot dogs and Cracker Jacks, employees can receive Louisville Sluggers emblazoned with their
names and your
company logo for your next softball game.
More modern
company towns, like Hershey, Pennsylvania (
named after famed chocolatier Milton Hershey's candy corporation), gave residents say in what the town prioritized.
After some customers took to Apple support forums to complain of the
company not replacing batteries for $ 29, a French publication
named iGeneration claims to have obtained internal documentation sent to Apple Stores that details which iPhones are eligible for the offer.
After 47 years known as Wal - Mart Stores, the world's largest
company said on Wednesday that it is dropping «Stores» from its
name in a nod to how much important e-commerce is to the business as it continues to compete with Amazon.com (amzn).
A few years
after Lowell's death in 1823, a group of his associates founded the town of Lowell (about 20 miles north of Waltham) in his
name and a series of textile mills under a new
company name (the Merrimack Manufacturing Co
company name (the Merrimack Manufacturing
CompanyCompany).
Richard, who started her own
company in 2010, just three years
after finishing her undergrad degree, and who was
named one of «Toronto's hottest young entrepreneurs» by The Globe and Mail in 2011, was just curious.
«I think we've always thought that it's important to have a positive relationships with local government, rather than taking a confrontational kind of stance,» Blecharczyk said in an interview with CNBC's Julia Boorstin that aired Tuesday on «Squawk on the Street»
after Airbnb was
named the No. 1
company on the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
So it's not particularly surprising that Deutsche Bahn, the German state rail
company, has come under considerable fire for its proposal to
name a train
after Frank.
The
company's
name comes from the statistical symbols for «mean» and «standard deviation,» and conference rooms are
named after statistical distributions.
After Agnelli's passing, Elkann, thrust to the forefront by the untimely deaths of two potential successors, was
named chairman of Fiat and chairman and CEO of Exor, the family's $ 142 billion holding
company with interests in commercial real estate, banking, media, heavy equipment, and the soccer team Juventus.
In the same article, Ahlborn expressed his own frustration that Hyperloop Tech, founded
after HTT, had selected such a similar
company name.
After acquiring Australmin Holdings Ltd. and a subsequent merger with BHP Gold Limited, the
company changed its
name to Newcrest in 1990.
The
company didn't disclose any
company names, but it plans to list certain «Slack - ready» applications in a new App Directory
after reviewing them.
Goizueta Business School is
named after Roberto C. Goizueta, the late CEO of Coca - Cola who led the
company from 1981 until he died in 1997.
The
company did a sort of trial run earlier this year, by giving its blessing to a quasi-affiliate called Maiden Lane (
named after the street in San Francisco where AngelList is based), which raised $ 25 million to support select syndicate deals with up to $ 100,000 each.
Five years
after its founding, the
company is expanding its footprint and continuing to make a
name for itself in the United States, its first international market.
The new
company, to be
named Thyssenkrupp Tata Steel, will be headquartered in Amsterdam, the
companies said in statements on Wednesday
after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
His
company now has 1,200 staff and Chobani,
named after the Turkish for shepherd, is said to have an 18pc share of America's $ 6.5bn - a-year (# 4.09 bn) yoghurt market.