discuss TechCrunch Article on Startup Naming Trends

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Thanks to DomainInvesting for posting this on his blog and the heads up.
@EJS

https://domaininvesting.com/pay-attention-to-naming-trends

For years, decades even, startup names have been getting weirder. This isn’t a scientific verdict, but it is how things have seemed to someone who spends a lot of hours perusing this stuff.

Startups have had a long run of branding themselves with creative misspellings, animal names, human first names, made-up words, adverbs, and other odd collections of letters. It’s gone on so long it now seems normal. Names like Google, Airbnb, and Hulu, which sounded strange at first, are now part of our everyday vocabulary.

Over the past few quarters, however, a peculiar thing has been happening: Startup founders are choosing more conventional-sounding names.

Article with links:

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/startup-names-may-have-passed-peak-weirdness/

 

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2017 and 2018 article same subject different naming trends

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/bizarre-naming-trends-modern-startups-follow/

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/10/startups-are-still-making-weird-name-choices/