# Do you like this business name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987 "2011-03-17T01:05:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/1 "2011-03-17T01:05:49Z")
The name: ThriveFast It’s for a technology consulting business. Any thoughts or comments welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/2 "2011-03-17T01:10:49Z")
It’s a little hard to say–F after V and all that. Also, thriving doesn’t reference motion, and you’ve got the two contradictory senses of ‘fast’: fast as in quickly, or fast as in fasten? Thrive, throve, thriven… maybe use another tense of thrive? ThrivenFast? Thrive Faster? I’ll have to think about it a bit more. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/3 "2011-03-17T01:14:02Z")
It sounds like an infomercial diet product, nothing reputable. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/4 "2011-03-17T01:19:36Z")
I second the cheesy diet plan. ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/5 "2011-03-17T01:23:18Z")
I see the name being hard to say correctly. I suspect it will be easy to slur the v and f as Sunspace suggested. Something about those two words together don’t work for me. Perhaps it is the ambiguity of fast meaning both quick and to abstain. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/6 "2011-03-17T01:54:16Z")
It just sounds to me like LiveFast was the desired name but someone already took it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/7 "2011-03-17T01:54:41Z")
Can’t put my finger on it but I don’t care for it. It might be the back-to-back v-f or maybe it’s the initial thr. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/8 "2011-03-17T01:58:27Z")
It’s awkward and doesn’t mean anything - it’s nonsense. Sorry if you were planning to use it for your business. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/9 "2011-03-17T02:02:54Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Thrive, throve, thriven… maybe use another tense of thrive? ThrivenFast? Thrive Faster? > > I’ll have to think about it a bit more. Thriver, rhymed with “river” just to set people back on their heels a little…OK, _maybe_ ThriveR, but that kinda ruins it then. > [@](#): > > It’s awkward and doesn’t mean anything - it’s nonsense. Perfect, then. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/10 "2011-03-17T03:12:11Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > It sounds like an infomercial diet product, nothing reputable. Well, [it was](http://www.google.com/search?q=ThriveFast.com). Are you part of [logo redesign](http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/help-thrivefast-create-logo-66689) for it? ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/11 "2011-03-17T12:42:31Z")
PixieTech already taken? Oh, my friend’s tech consulting business thrived after he renamed it in honor of his 2 cats. That’s the whole name. No “Consulting” no “Tech” no “Services” in the name just Cat 1-Cat 2. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/12 "2011-03-17T13:34:44Z")
Without even looking at the other answers, my first thought was that it was for a nutritional supplement. Glad I wasn’t alone in my thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/13 "2011-03-17T15:59:31Z")
Another vote for cheap-ass nutritional program name. If you _are_ part of this logo-change project, the logo isn’t the problem. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/14 "2011-03-17T17:13:50Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > It sounds like an infomercial diet product, nothing reputable. I agree. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/15 "2011-03-17T17:37:55Z")
DieYoung. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/16 "2011-03-18T13:44:21Z")
Sounds like some kind of dubious health food type product, not a tech firm. Not a good choice of name. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/17 "2011-03-18T15:26:09Z")
Although I don’t mind the sound of the words together, it does suggest a shady get-rich-quick scheme of some sort, or perhaps a club for yuppies. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/18 "2011-03-18T15:30:40Z")
How exactly _does_ one “thrive fast”? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/19 "2011-03-18T15:36:08Z")
Terrible name. It sounds cheap, nasty and meaningless. I wouldn’t trust a company called “ThriveFast” to clean my dog let alone do consulting for me. Um, assuming I had a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-this-business-name/574987/20 "2011-03-18T16:20:20Z")
It sounds like it could be a pun on “Drive Fast” in which case it makes me wonder, “huh, what’s up with that?” It also sounds like something a business major would devise, so while it bothers me it might be mother’s milk to the hordes of business majors out there. As for it being a good name for a technology consulting firm, enhh, not so much. I wouldn’t count on a change of equipment to make a huge difference in how much my business “thrives.”