Temporary Solution: "Entrepreneur Program" instead of IdeaLaunch; New name update - Your Preferences Requested

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David Parker

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Jul 31, 2012, 5:07:45 PM7/31/12
to Todd Fry, Raj Melville, Emil Kuruvilla, Lianna Kushi, Janin Duran, sandbox-incubator...@googlegroups.com, John Howard, Tello, Steven

Emil and I have been cracking the whip with our outside developers and ferreting out any and all instances of “IdeaLaunch” on the Web.  We’re certainly not finished, but we’ve accomplished a lot:

-          SandboxIdeaLaunch.org now redirects users to MVSandbox.org

-          At MVSandbox.org, we’re calling IdeaLaunch the “Entrepreneur Program” – intentionally boring so that we’re motivated to find a better name!

-          Our Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter pages are all now scrubbed clean of the word IdeaLaunch

-          Our upcoming Pitch Contest flyers will not mention IdeaLaunch

Many thanks to Emil for quickly taking on the lion’s share of the work.

 

What this means, is that we should all do our best to stop using “IdeaLaunch” – at all.  Just say “Sandbox Entrepreneur Program” – it’s not pretty, but it does communicate what we’re doing.

 

Regarding finding a replacement for IdeaLaunch, we’ve received a whole bunch of creative suggestions.  Following is an updated list.  To keep this process moving, please Click Here to answer only three questions about which names you like the most, which you dislike, and whether you have any advice/comments.

 

Sandbox BizLaunch

Sandbox Idea

Sandbox Idea Accelerator

Sandbox Idea Nexus

Sandbox Idea XLR8

Sandbox Idea2Business

Sandbox IdeaBase

Sandbox IdeaBloom

Sandbox IdeaBoom

Sandbox IdeaBuild

Sandbox IdeaCosm

Sandbox IdeaFoundry

Sandbox IdeaLab

Sandbox IdeaMill

Sandbox IdeaPlex

Sandbox Ideas

Sandbox IdeaStart

Sandbox IdeaZoom

Sandbox Launch

Sandbox LaunchYourBusiness

Sandbox LaunchYourIdea

Sandbox VentureLaunch

 

(Sorry Steve, I had to remove Sandbox Launchpad because of the Boston-based Launchpad program, which helps entrepreneurs!)

 

Thanks for filling out the survey!

 

David

 

 

 

 

 

David Parker

Co-Executive Director
Director of Entrepreneur Development
Merrimack Valley Sandbox
Merrimack Valley Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UMass Lowell
Wannalancit Mills, First Floor
600 Suffolk Street, Lowell, MA  01854
Da...@MerrimackValleySandbox.org
MerrimackValleySandbox.org
office: 978-934-6619
cell: 781-325-3085

 

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