1.Yahoo is the abbreviation of "Yetanotherhierarchical office"
Yahoo is the abbreviation of "Yetanotherhierarchical office". But the founder of Yahoo chose the new name Yahoo more because of its literary meaning. The name was inspired by Gulliver's Travels. Yahoo is a savage animal in Gulliver's Travels by jonathan swift. The word "Yahoo" therefore has the meaning of "rude, simple and clumsy".
2.AppleComputer was invented by Steve Jobs when he was working on a community farm.
"Apple Computer" was invented by Steve Jobs when he was working on a community farm. According to Steve Woznick, one of the founders of Apple, when Steve Jobs came up with the name "Apple Computer", he was driving on Highway 85 from Palo Alto to Los Altos.
At that time, Jobs said, "I came up with a great name: Apple Computer". Maybe he used to work under the apple tree. Maybe the name has some other meanings for him. Or his idea stems from his worship of the Beatles' Apple Records.
3.Etsy means "if" in Latin and "oh, yes!" in Italian.
Robert Carlin, the founder of Etsy, a handicraft trading network, hopes to find a name for its website that has no specific name and can be used as a brand name.
Later, he watched a foreign movie and wrote down a word he heard in the movie, and then changed it into the name of the company.
Carlin explained to the editor of Reader's Digest: "I read Ferini's 8? "This movie, and write down what I heard. In Italy, people often say the word "etsi". It means "Oh, yes." In Latin America, it means "if".
4.Hulu is a Chinese transliteration word with two meanings: Hulu and Interactive Record
Zhan Sen Kilar, president of Hulu.com, explained how he chose the name Hulu:
In July and August last year, at a series of marathon naming meetings, Eric, Christina, Eugene and I reviewed a long list of candidate names, which led to an argument. Then, I wrote down more than 2 names that need to be further selected on the whiteboard.
At a certain moment in the meeting, someone proposed the name "Hulu". In Chinese, Hulu has two interesting meanings, each of which is highly related to our mission. It literally translates as "gourd". In ancient times, the gourd was hollowed out to preserve precious things. Its second meaning is "interactive recording". These two definitions can be regarded as the connotation of our website, and they are also highly related to the mission of Hulu.
We are also excited about this name, because there is no such word in English. We hope that our website can create a unique experience that is attractive and can't be simply compared. We need such a word with no clear definition as the name of the website. Moreover, the name should be relatively short and easy to pronounce.
5. "Yandex" is the abbreviation of YetAnotherIndexer
Yandex is the largest search engine in Russia. The name of this is the acronym "YetAnotherIndexer". According to Wikipedia, "the original meaning of this name is: another index."
6.Yipit takes "it" as a part of the website name, hoping that it can often be hung on people's lips like "googleit"
Vinicius Vinson, the co-founder of Yipit, a group-buying navigation website, wrote down the naming process of Yipit:
"We have come up with a long list of bad names, including Street Cake, Franken City, 1 Gotham and City Bat.
7. Twitter was almost called "Status" or "twitch" at first.
The initial tentative name of Twitter was "Status". Later, its founder Dorsey wanted to find a better name in the dictionary.
Dorsey explained to the reporter of the Los Angeles Times, "We hope that our website can continuously make a sound to the world. Therefore, we held several brainstorming meetings and put forward a lot of names. Later, we thought of "twitch", because this kind of sound will happen when the phone moves. However, "twitch" is not a good product name because it doesn't have a good sense of picture. Then we looked for words with similar structure in the dictionary and finally found "Twitter." Twitter is defined as "incoherent information" and "birds chirping", which is completely suitable for the name of our website.
8.OneKingsLane is a fictitious address
OneKingsLane website is a home decoration shopping website founded by Doug Mack, Susan Feldman and Ali pincus.
OneKingsLane is actually a fictitious address. "This name reflects a fusion of ancient and modern." An article in Fortune Magazine wrote.
9.Zillow is a combination of "zillions" and "pillows"
According to the explanation of the founder of the real estate information website Zillow, the name Zillow first comes from the word "zillions", and the purpose of Zillow is to let everyone get enough information about their real estate.
Moreover, home means more than just data-it is a place where you can lie down and sleep at night, just like a pillow-so they merged zillions and pillows, and Zillow was born.
1.Zynga was originally the name of its founder mark pincus's bulldog
If "Zynga" sounds more like the name of a new pet than the name of a company, it is because it is. Mark pincus keeps an American bulldog named Zinga, and he named his social game company after it.
11.GoDaddy was originally a variant of "BigDaddy"
Godaddy is the world's largest domain name registrar, and it was almost named "BigDaddy" at first. Bob Parsons founded GoDaddy in 1997, and its original name was JomaxTechnologies. Two years later, the company hoped to adopt a more memorable name and held a brainstorming meeting in the company. Someone suggested using the name "BigDaddy", but this domain name has already been registered.
so they thought of using the variant "GoDaddy" instead of "BigDaddy". Parsons likes this new name because it makes people laugh.
12.Skype comes from skypeer-to-peer
The original name of Skype Company is Skype er-to-peer. Skypeer-to-peer becomes "Skyper" after simplification. Later, due to the restriction of domain name, the letter "R" was removed.
13.Pandora is the name of a Greek goddess
Here is an introduction about Pandora's company:
The word "Pandora" in Greek means "all the gifts given by God". In ancient Greek mythology, Pandora was Zeus who ordered the goddess Herzog Stowe, the god of fire and forging, to create a lovely woman out of clay. Zeus ordered the gods to give Pandora many gifts, including the musical talent given to her by Apollo. As we all know, Pandora is also greedy. However, unlike those ancient gods, we praise this virtue and take it as our mission to constantly discover new music to satisfy people's greed for music.
14.Google comes from the mathematical term googol
At first, sergey brin and Larry Page named their search engine BackRub. Later, they renamed it Google, a name derived from the mathematical term googol. Googol means 1 to the 1 th power in mathematics. Brin and Page found that "googol" is an appropriate name because it is related to the powerful data search capability of search engines.
15. The name Meebo is meaningless
Earlier this year, Google acquired Meebo, a social instant messaging service website, and shut down most of its functions.
when Meebo company was founded, its founder deliberately gave it a meaningless name. They only have a few requirements for the company name: there are two syllables; It doesn't make sense, and it would be better if it started with the letter "M".
"Meebo is neither an obscure abbreviation nor a word game." The company explained in its blog.
"According to our request, the names we want can't be translated into any words. Cindy, Seth and Elaine write down all the names they can think of on a napkin. Two syllables are a necessary condition, while Elaine prefers names beginning with the letter "m". It can't cause association; And the spelling should be simple enough, so that as long as you can spell it when you hear it, they came up with about 5 names before starting the review. They entered all these names into the browser one by one, eliminated them one by one, and finally left almost five. Among the last few names, they finally picked Meebo.
16.Bebo means "Blogearly, Blogoft"
Social networking site Bebo is an acronym for "Blogearly, Blogoft".
"We want a short name, and we want it to end with" it ". When people need to query information, they often say "googleit". If we take "it" as a part of the name of the website, we hope it can be hung on people's lips as often as "googleit". After screening a large number of permutations and combinations with computer programs, we generally found yipit.com in a needle in a haystack.
The names of these start-ups may seem a little ridiculous, but at least they are all good business ideas.