Also, Google's original name was "backrub" and the name Google was the result of blurting out a weird word to describe a ton of data and a typo made by one of the founders' officemates.
https://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html Like I said. Assign all the meaning you want. ;) -Alex On Apr 8, 2017, 12:43 PM -0400, Caner Onoglu <[email protected]>, wrote: > A name search for a coworking is more than a name search which will look good > on marketing materials. It is a symbol of the owners strategy. Do they want > to be more business oriented or adventure, fun? Do they want to have a > "laissez faire, laissez passe" attitude or give importance to rules and > structures. Name will not only give a message to community but also to the > founders. Name will summarize who they want to be and lead their way. > > It is not a magic key to solve all the problems for sure, but an important > element of starting a company. Imagine "google" named itself as something > like "Business Search and Resarch Systems" I doubt they would be who they are > now. > > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > If you believe you're not in control of your destiny, or that a > > predetermined name is needed to be motivated through the hard parts of > > building a coworking community, I have some bad news for you... ;) > > > > Alex > > > > > > On Apr 8, 2017, 11:57 AM -0400, Caner Onoglu <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])>, wrote: > > > Well said Alex. But remember also the famous latin phrase "omen est > > > nomen" which translates "name is destiny" It may be an important > > > motivational factor for founder. > > > > > > On Apr 8, 2017 21:21, "Alex Hillman" <[email protected] > > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > > You said your community is around the Main St area, right? That's what > > > > matters - stop trying to name the place before the place even exists. > > > > That's the clue that you're getting ahead of yourself. > > > > > > > > I know that branding and making is fun but it's the kind of work that > > > > feels like work but isn't really work and distracts you from doing the > > > > REAL work. > > > > > > > > Which is just getting people together. Everything else is noise. > > > > > > > > -Alex > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 8, 2017, 9:50 AM -0400, Kevin Haggerty <[email protected] > > > > (mailto:[email protected])>, wrote: > > > > > You mean including Main Street in the title and playing off that? > > > > > Definitely considered that. But nothing creative yet. 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