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rcolinkennedy
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rcolinkennedy
15y ago
Not sure I understand your equation, but I think you're right. It's a happy photo if you GRIN IN IT. The goal was to have a name that's easy to say, short, and bring a smile (Grin). We actually had a list of 50+ names which we brought dow
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rcolinkennedy
15y ago
You are correct and I reacted too defensively. Yes, marketing is absolutely critical, and perhaps there are better domain names that could have been chosen. HOWEVER, name / domain was not at all the root cause of what we decided was ultima
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rcolinkennedy
15y ago
You're totally right. We were going to call it http://trololololololololololo.com/ but that was already taken. Wish you were there when we were working on the backup name, sounds like you would have been very helpful
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rcolinkennedy
15y ago
Thanks! Not to be cliche, but it would been easier to keep going - but nobody wants to be a zombie. Lots of hard choices.
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Takeaways from Folding Our Startup
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rcolinkennedy
15y ago
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