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'Name the Business' Contest Announced
PENSACOLA, FL - 2005-09-26
BY MIKE MALBURG
Well, I have finally broken down and decided to get my butt in gear and start a consulting business, to do some side work as. People apparently want me to program in my freetime, so I figured while I'm at it, I might even charge them for it and make a buck or two. The problem is, the business needs a name.
Since there seems to be an inverse relationship to the number of hours I spend watching movies & playing video games and the level of creativity my brain is capable of, I need someone else more original than I to come up with a name for me.
And so it has come to this... I am offerring a $100 cash prize (check actually, mailed via US Post from my bank's automated bill-pay service) to the person that can come up with the company name that I end up using.
I won't lie to you - none of you may win. I might come up with one all by my lonesome in a fit of caffeine and Stargate-induced creativity, in which case I will award myself the money and treat myself to a nice steak dinner and maybe like a movie or something. I might later even take a long on the beach and watch the sun set, or other such things people with 100 whole dollars do for fun.
Regardless, I need a company name, and I need one bad. So post your submissions on the site as comments with your real email address in the email there, and I will check them all and decide if there is a winner on October 15th, 2005. If there is, I will email the person who submitted the über-creative submission, and get their mailing info and send them the money order via snail mail.
As far as guidelines for the company name, I am looking for something kind of professional, so it is unlikely that I would consider such borderline-unprofessional submissions as "Puking Dolphin Software", "IeatBabiesTech" or "PoopSoft Group". Creative though these are, they might throw some negative vibes out there. Just a thought.
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name for business - 09/27/2005 04:16:42AM CST (09/27/2005 05:16:42AM EST)
Posted By: theinternet
www.stormtroopersvsjawas.com
*waves hand* this is the name you are looking for.
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- 09/27/2005 11:15:28AM CST (09/27/2005 12:15:28PM EST)
Posted By:
Mike my friend. I am proud of your ability to take monrey from people. Your name, therefore, will now be Malburg the Milker. But seriously though, why not Malburg Net, Ltd. You are guaranteed Fortune 500 status in, say. six months.
I love you!
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- 09/27/2005 11:15:55AM CST (09/27/2005 12:15:55PM EST)
Posted By:
i wish i had spell checked the former post
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MMNAPAHIN Project - 09/27/2005 08:40:52PM CST (09/27/2005 09:40:52PM EST)
Posted By: Curtis
Sounds like the Make Mike Not As Poor As He Is Now Project to me.
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MMNAPAHIN? - 09/27/2005 09:19:12PM CST (09/27/2005 10:19:12PM EST)
Posted By: Mike
Nah, the money is doing well. This hopefully more like the Make Mike Retired By 35 Project =P
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My 2 bits - 09/27/2005 09:21:21PM CST (09/27/2005 10:21:21PM EST)
Posted By: MIke Roberson (yea the other mike)
Ok , Never name the business after yourself. "Teds used cars" may sound personal, but he can NEVER sell his business to a Bill or a Fred. Besides would you want to talk to ANYONE in the office besides Ted?
The first thing you need to do is K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid! No one will remember a mountain of a name like "Maulburg's Code and Program Solutions" Short and simple, perhaps 2 words combined to make one, and double meaning to catch the intelect/humor section of the brain for a split second? Ubersoft is taken.... nevermind
You might need an Alias, and I dont mean season 1 on dvd. Somthing to connotate you are FAST and zippy...... UREKA, A vacuum, I mean I got it, Zip! You could call yourself ZIP CODE! or variation thereof, ZIP's Code perhaps.
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Zipcode - 09/28/2005 01:15:32AM CST (09/28/2005 02:15:32AM EST)
Posted By: Mike
Zipcode is actually pretty creative =)
I checked zipcode.com and its registered through 2012 and not for sale from what I saw...
Amongst many other failed names such HyperStream (porn site I found out) and several others, I came up with AppLogic. I might have the dot com in November if my domain sniping service I signed up for works. Even if thats not the business name, it will make a great addtion to my collection of domains. Some people collect stamps and baseball cards... I collect Domains. What ya gonna do?
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A-Names - 09/28/2005 01:19:52AM CST (09/28/2005 02:19:52AM EST)
Posted By: Mike
Oh also, I love names for software companies that start with the letter A. Usually sites list company names for third part components or applications alphabetically by company name. I never take the companies seriously that begin with a number, but I myself and the companies I have worked for or with have bought quite a few components from popular third-party component companies vendors whose name began with the letter A, or right at the beginning of the alphabet. ASPEmail, ASPUpload, ActivePDF, ComponentArt, and many others. Coincidence? I thnk not. Do you see a lot of people buying DotNet Controls from ZZTop Software, Inc? NO!!
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My Apologies - 09/28/2005 11:57:16AM CST (09/28/2005 12:57:16PM EST)
Posted By: Curtis
Sorry Mike, didn't mean to call into question your finacial stability, I was going for the parallels with the MMNAFAHIN project and "Make Mike More Fabulously Wealthy Than He Is Now" just didn't have the ring to it. But I think the question on everyone's minds right now is what would a 35-year old retired Mike Malburg look like? I mean would Mike be the first retiree in history to play video games for 72 straight hours? Would he set up wireless internet access on his own private beach or would he have places to plug in his laptop installed in the sand? Would he name his yacht after himself, his trophy wife, some obscure programming code, or a video game? These are things we need to know. I expect Jordan to post a 5,000 word article with answers to these questions.
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Retired at 35 - 09/28/2005 12:38:44PM CST (09/28/2005 01:38:44PM EST)
Posted By: Mike
If I retired at 35, I'd probably cybernetically implant a computer in my head so I could watch movies and play games all day. Um... thats it. Thats all I would do. At all. Uhh... yeah not a whole lot more than that. Sorry to disappoint.
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Company name - 09/29/2005 02:59:51AM CST (09/29/2005 03:59:51AM EST)
Posted By: theinternet
seriously....it should be stormtroopersvsjawas, I mean, everyone would go to it. I know I would.
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RE: My 2 bits - 09/30/2005 03:01:14AM CST (09/30/2005 04:01:14AM EST)
Posted By: Jordan's Beard's Brother's Not-Really-Beard in Holland
Would it be better to name it after someone else? You could call it "Jordan's Beard's Programming." Perhaps you could ask Jordan's Beard's opinion on it seeing as he was run out of the UK and the European bureau torched.
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MY two bits - 09/30/2005 03:07:24AM CST (09/30/2005 04:07:24AM EST)
Posted By: Jordan's Beard's Brother's Not-Really-Beard, in Holland
Now that I have my insane answer out of the way, the article itself provided some inspiration to my suggested name. Seeing as dolphins kinda live close to Florida, what about "Whistling Dolphin Software?" It's a little smarter than "Puking Dolphin Software" AND a Google search of that name had no hits. Plus, while the letter "D" isn't at the top of the alphabet like "A" is, it's close...
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A coder by any other name... - 10/05/2005 09:59:15AM CST (10/05/2005 10:59:15AM EST)
Posted By: Desi stopped by
Alphanumericabetical huh? Hmm... let me think of all the companies that aren't doing well because of omega weighted naming conventions. Let's see... Yahoo is getting quiet. Sun's future isn't too bright. Symantec has a virus problem. Veritas's progress is incremental to the potential differential of alpha weighted companies.
so....
For x badExamplePuns
counterExample.counter++
poke fun@mike
push luck
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!names to use - 10/05/2005 10:19:14AM CST (10/05/2005 11:19:14AM EST)
Posted By: Desi returns!
Here are some good ones:
Writegood Code
Macrosoft
Complete Custom Coding or (CCC©)
Awesome Appz
Getrichby Licensing
Komplete Kustom Koding or (...nevermind)
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Dude - 10/07/2005 06:40:18AM CST (10/07/2005 07:40:18AM EST)
Posted By: I WILL NOT BE SILENT
So in case anyone is watching, reading, listening etc....I have a job...Live in Atlanta now...made my own website to show my graphic design stuff...This has nothing to do with Mike's job...but then again I don't care about Mike's job because Mike stole all of my ideas for names and cast them aside as unprofessional. Jerkwad.
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site down and someone who loves me??? - 10/17/2005 06:16:55AM CST (10/17/2005 07:16:55AM EST)
Posted By: V01D
OK, first off... the site went down. I dunno. My guess? My hosting provider upgraded. They magically fixed it today after I reported the issue. Basically, I was just too [lazy/didnt care enough/insert excuse here] to do it the past week.
OK that said, who the heck said they loved me in that second comment? Not seeing your name posted there. If you are a hot single geek chick between the ages of legal and not much older than me, then please email me to get on the official and extensive "Date Mike List". And if you are a dude between the ages of legal and not much older than me, please email to get on the official and disturbing "People Who I Need To Not Hang Out With Alone With Ever List". Thank-you.
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Even if you were a dude, I`d still call at you like you were a lady - 10/17/2005 06:23:18AM CST (10/17/2005 07:23:18AM EST)
Posted By: V01D
Yeah, to clarify.... Um... like ANY dudes between the ages of not-born-yet and dead for infinity years needs to email me to make that list.
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www.taskad.com - 10/30/2005 10:21:32PM CST (10/30/2005 11:21:32PM EST)
Posted By: www.taskad.com
www.taskad.com Shameless self promotion....LOOK AT MY WEBSITE DANG IT!!!!!!!!
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Nice! - 11/02/2005 05:31:04AM CST (11/02/2005 06:31:04AM EST)
Posted By: V01D
I must say - love the graphics and layout, but the motion and navigation could use a little help from our old friend Macromedia Flash =). The imageready code always loads a bit choppy regardless of connection speed, because it is downloading many different files, but there is no built in buffering to display them all at once by default. If I were good at either flash or imageready, I`d actually offer helpful advice, but alas, I still suck at both.
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You lose. - 11/02/2005 05:41:57AM CST (11/02/2005 06:41:57AM EST)
Posted By: V01D
Well, sorry to say, though many of you came up with some creative names (Komplete Kustom Koding, Ubersoft, Jordan`s Beard`s Programming, etc), unfortunately none of them really came out and slapped me across the face like a bag of wet kittens. So... sorry to inform you that you all lose, and that my submission of AppLogic wins the cake.
The following is how I spent my money so far:
Eating dinner at Applebees..........................................$20
Watching "Flicghtplan" at the theater with popcorn......$15
Buying food for my cat so she doesn't eat me...............$6
Posting a contest on your website to come up with a company name for your side work, with a $100 prize for the winning submission and then declaring yourself the winner.......PRICELESS
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B 4 you declare yourself the winner..... - 12/09/2005 07:31:40PM CST (12/09/2005 08:31:40PM EST)
Posted By: The other mike again.....
A variation of my former idea I stumbled upon, Instead of Zip code, how about ZAP CODE? The domain is open. BTW, if you only spent 20 bucks at appplebees, and 15 seeing said movie, you are still single, and cheeper than ever :)
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I never heard of that movie! - 12/11/2005 06:04:51PM CST (12/11/2005 07:04:51PM EST)
Posted By: Carey
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I never heard of that movie! - 12/11/2005 06:05:50PM CST (12/11/2005 07:05:50PM EST)
Posted By: Carey
Grrrr I hate the empty post bug!
"Flicghtplan"?!?!? what's that about I haven't seen any ads for it.
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Bugs Galore - 12/19/2005 11:41:53AM CST (12/19/2005 12:41:53PM EST)
Posted By: V01D
Yeah this is like the worlds crappiest posting ever for a website. I still havent added a simple nl2br to break the text on linefeeds. Man I`m lazy.
It fell into one of my 2 fav movie categories: conspiricy theory. Well, anyway, off to bed. I`ll be in MI the 23rd to the 2nd, for anyone that cares.
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something funny - 01/05/2006 01:37:27AM CST (01/05/2006 02:37:27AM EST)
Posted By: theinternet
write something funny kthx
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