Dreaming up a new business starts with a domain name, and some entrepreneurs have hundreds of them — Michael Lindsey and Daniel Rubin have a tradition. At the end of each year, when GoDaddy announces that their domain names have renewed, they send each other screenshots of the notice, paired with a tongue-in-cheek caption: “We’ve got to get started on that idea.” Since their time as undergraduates at…

Startups like Slack have gone public with the cutesy tickers. Do investors care? — For a brief moment last February, a tiny Vancouver-based cannabis company was on top of the world. Weekend Unlimited, a self-described “premium” hemp brand that employs roughly a dozen people, had just won rights to one of the most coveted ticker symbols in Canadian history: POT. …