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Why did Courtney find it so difficult to pick a name for his new business??? |
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Why did Courtney find it so difficult to pick a name for his new business???
He sells novelties, right.
When people type novelties into the Google search box they DON'T type Purple whale. So why didn't he just call his company Courtney's Novelties??? Purple Whale is random. It also means nothing except perhaps conservation. |
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if he is a man who is called Courtney, then I am not surprised he has difficulty with names
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if he is a man who is called Courtney, then I am not surprised he has difficulty with names
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He sells novelties, right.
When people type novelties into the Google search box they DON'T type blue whale. So why didn't he just call his company Courtney's Novelties??? Blue Whale is random. It also means nothing except perhaps conservation. |
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if he is a man who is called Courtney, then I am not surprised he has difficulty with names
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his first novelty is to have a thought about anything
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As far as i am aware he didn't name himself, that would be his parents job!
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He sells novelties, right.
When people type novelties into the Google search box they DON'T type Purple whale. So why didn't he just call his company Courtney's Novelties??? Purple Whale is random. It also means nothing except perhaps conservation. For instance if you actually google Novelty gifts then most of the things that come up don't mention the word Novelty. |
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Everyone has remembered the name and that`s half the battle with branding. Novelties by Courtney sounds Victorian; at least his choice was quirky and modern.
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It's a complete joke that anyone would enter this process without a name or two up their sleeve for their company, and would waste most of their first day on the final task trying to think of one.
More fakery from the BBC
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Everyone has remembered the name and that`s half the battle with branding. Novelties by Courtney sounds Victorian; at least his choice was quirky and modern.
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It's a complete joke that anyone would enter this process without a name or two up their sleeve for their company, and would waste most of their first day on the final task trying to think of one.
More fakery from the BBC ![]() |
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It was basically Karthik's idea and he got no credit for it!
Basically Karthik saved Courtney's ass and got zero credit for it. |
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Names that are a colour and an animal are really popular. The naming bit seemed kind of staged. He'd have buggered it up if he'd said blue, wouldn't he?
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Names that are a colour and an animal are really popular. The naming bit seemed kind of staged. He'd have buggered it up if he'd said blue, wouldn't he?
This is like the porn star name game. My novelty company name would be red penguin! |
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He's a one trick pony.
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He should have named it Wet Lettuce, then everyone would associate it with him.
Agreed about Karthik - he was invaluable to Courtney in the final. |
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It's a complete joke that anyone would enter this process without a name or two up their sleeve for their company, and would waste most of their first day on the final task trying to think of one.
More fakery from the BBC ![]() |
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Yeah.
This is like the porn star name game. My novelty company name would be red penguin! Mine would be Pink Wolf
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More likely the BBC caught both finalists off guard when it said they could not use their existing company names.
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His company already had a name, I'm not sure he was aware that he was going to be asked to give it a different name.
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Names that are a colour and an animal are really popular. The naming bit seemed kind of staged. He'd have buggered it up if he'd said blue, wouldn't he?
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To all you people who are trying to justify Courtney's reason to call his novelties business Purple Whale.
Why can't you accept Courtney's Novelties is a better name. And Google does work if you have the name of what you sell in your website name. I know, from experience. ![]() I'd rather call a hair transplant business, 'www.newhair. com - than trying to be clever and calling the business redkettles.com
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It's a complete joke that anyone would enter this process without a name or two up their sleeve for their company, ...(
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All five of the previous winners launched businesses with new names, and at least three had to deliver the new name as part of the task. That's the prize - start a company with Lord Sugar (even if it does build entirely on what you've already been doing).
I'm amazed they spent so long on it -- and every year in episode one spend ages naming their teams even though there is a good chance they will be transferred to the other side before long. Most names do not matter. It is Mr Kipling not Mr BestCakesInTheWholeSupermarket. So far as I can see, most of our leading companies have names that are made up or remember long-dead founders, like Ford or Rolls-Royce. Obviously that is betting without Amstrad.
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To all you people who are trying to justify Courtney's reason to call his novelties business Purple Whale.
Why can't you accept Courtney's Novelties is a better name. And Google does work if you have the name of what you sell in your website name. I know, from experience. ![]() I'd rather call a hair transplant business, 'www.newhair. com - than trying to be clever and calling the business redkettles.com ![]() Do you really need a list of hugely successful businesses that have names that are nothing to do with what they sell? |
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Courtneys Novelties is a terrible name. One of the biggest selling, if not the biggest, novelties companies is called Firebox by the way.
Do you really need a list of hugely successful businesses that have names that are nothing to do with what they sell? |
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Mine would be Pink Wolf