Alright people, I'm coining the following Theorem:
IF you type the name of any Greek God or Goddess followed by the word "capital," "investment," or "management" into Google, THEN you will find that there exists a company by that name.
I would say that I have an above average interest in mythology, but this is ridiculous! How can bright, allegedly entrepreneurial people be so damn unoriginal?! Try it out for yourself.
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These aren't referenced in finance yet:
Harpy Nymph Scylla Marsyas Amphitrite
Your theorem is very true. But this would lead me to think that some small funds founders aren't maybe as bright as you assume.
A harpy or a nymph are generical names for mythological beasts. Scylla is a named creature but not a god (and who would be dumb enough to call his fund Scylla, which is synonym of disaster?). Marsyas was just a satyre, not a god. Amphitrite... well she was a goddess but just Poseidon's wife, with no special power or attribution that I can recall. Therefore his theorem holds true.
I think that putting a name of a Greek god on your fund isn't such a bad idea as long as it isn't already taken by a weel-known fund. Greek gods are emblems of power, legends, traditions. Those are values which the fund managers want to be associated with by their clients. It brings recognition, safety and reverence. An ill-known name (Amphitrite) will only appeal to the most educated. Artemis, for example, is well-known and the clients will think "hey I know this name, I'm educated enough to invest my money in the markets". Plus the image of a goddess hunting the Alpha is just cool. Zeus would seem arrogant, Artemis is more reserved, all about efficiency. It would be a very good choice I think. (And it's already taken by several companies.) Athena would be a good second choice.
But I also tried more stupid names. Apparently someone thinks he's enough of a baller to put Hades Capital (oooh, that's like Darth Vader Capital but for older investors, so coool). Someone else took very seriously the finance industry and put Bacchus Capital. Hilarious.
He's off the hook for those. My original post said "Gods, Goddesses, and well known figures of Greek mythology" (because there's a Pegasus Capital). I went back and edited it after I saw that TabulaRasa had poked all these holes in the theorem, haha.
Bacchus capital. that made my day
hmmm... i wonder why...? how bout we drop the mythology and call our fund "ugly sex-crazed capital"? or, the Nimphomanic Harpy Fund? wait! i have a better one!! let's create the Death to America Partners! we'll have a definite target market!
scratch that - call it Death to America Management (and Info Tech if you really wanna stretch it)
You are probably right if you stick to the actual greek gods and goddesses
There's even an Icarus Capital Management. Got any wax wings?
lol I also checked, there's an Eros Capital Ltd in PE. Got any hot wax?
I guess Greek names sound powerful or something.
If I start a fund ever I'm going to name it after some LOTR characters, keep it real nerd (cant do Star Wars... Enron did that already)
What? Like Frodo Capital? lol... real slick
there's a financial analytics company called Palantir Technologies, always thought that was pretty cool
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there's already a gandalf group, but they're market research people I think
http://www.gandalfgroup.ca/
lol
Jesus ahahaha
I think it's groups created by frat boys or for frat boys. Going greek, yo!
(I myself am in pursuit of the golden fleece XD)
http://www.argoglobal.com/
Jedi - http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Miami-Beach/jedi-capital-llc-516…
Yoda - http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/people.asp?pr…
Darth - http://darthcapitalist.com/
Vader - http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/people.asp?pr…
Leia - http://www.leia.net/Team.html
Padme Amidala: http://www.accion.org/Page.aspx?pid=659
Why is nobody using the name of the most powerful greek god?
Chaos Investments anyone?
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