The latest form of digital panhandling
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Actually thinking more on it I've seen limits for things other than "I have to sign, sketch, whatever how many?" in that they do something like a $25 tier and then a limited $20 tier with the same rewards as a sorta early bird special. But those are the only limits I can think of having seen on the tiered set ups.
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I honestly haven't paid much attention to kickstarter. Probably only stuff that people link here, or the occasional joke like the potato salad or people just literally asking for money with an attempt at wit.
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Honda - Fair enough, but that is an old brand
Shouldn't that reinforce the point? Old brands are the ones that lasted. New brands are the ones that haven't proven themselves yet. If short names last, you should expect to see more old names.
Nokia - Old ass brand
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The name has little to do with it. This idiot is mistaking correlation for causation. Execution is what matters. The prevalence of short company names just shows that people who execute well are now choosing short names.
And regardless, even if you have a long ass name, people will abbreviate it or initial it. Look at IBM. Big ass name, very profitable, almost no one knows the name that came about many, many, years ago.
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We have developed many brands similar and this is proven with with similar results.
Idiots following idiots.
He didn't read what he wrote? ikee (eye-key) and icky(ih-key) have the same sound at the end, it's the beginning that makes them different.
Next brand
fdulr
I've made brands with less letters, so I'm sure this will work.
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That just means he is a clever con man that makes a business look good enough on paper that someone will buy it.
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Depending on whose statistics you believe (and the "within X years" for which the numbers are stated), somewhere between 30% and 90% of new businesses fail. It could simply mean that he is persistent in trying (unsuccessfully) to beat those odds. Not that that inspires greater confidence that this one will be viable.
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Proven by what?
A bunch of marketing weenies. He may not know they are weenies, but I assure you, they are.
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Hmmm... someone who has started several companies. I do not interpret that in a good way.
I wouldn't hold that title against him. Several people have referred to me that way, and I refer to several of my friends that way.
We have a track record of making money though. I have no idea he does.
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Valve? Jagex?
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Pepsi
Doesn't count. Pepsi started marketing as Pepsi-Cola. In fact, they still include the Pepsi-Cola logo on products, probably so that they can maintain the copyright the trademark rights.
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Coke
Started as Coca-Cola, and is still marketed that way. Doesn't count.
Pepsi
You were hanzod by @Eldelshell, so I'll refer you to the response I gave him:
Doesn't count. Pepsi started marketing as Pepsi-Cola.
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Well, and most of these don't count anyway as they are not examples of recent market traction.
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they are not examples of recent market traction
Where in
Brands with 5 characters or less are proven to gain more traction
does it mention recent traction?
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does it mention recent traction?
I suppose it doesn't, but that just shows how much larger a heap of bullshit it is. Look at any list of biggest/most X and brands with that characteristic will be in the minority.