Two of the most important lessons I learned in grad school:
1) you can register anything you want as a fictitious business name and get an official looking logo and letterhead and credit card
2) if a conference rejects your paper, your business can book the next conference room over at the same hotel and hold your own workshop and present your paper anyway
@dan I had this friend who, in their late teens, with another friend wanted to go to this conference and they needed a company name so they came up with a letterhead and everything for Bolux Incorporated.
He very proudly kept the badge he was given when he went to the conference that listed the company name 😂
An acquaintance of mine had letterhead and purchase orders done up as "Tiestes Systems' to order samples from electronics vendors.
The logo almost combined the T and i, rendering the latter almost unnoticeable.
He got called out any number of times, I'm guessing on account of the fact he was 15 and sounded 12.
His excuse was "The owner is from Paraguay, English is not his first language, and trust me, we've all told him."
Dan Ports
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