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by utunga 5177 days ago
solid real example - though not strictly quantifiable.. but in this piece Max Haot makes absolutely no bones that changing their name from Mogulus to LiveStream had a massive effect on their success (he says it over and over again)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/08/founder-stories-livestreams...

Certainly passes the smell test for me. Mogulus = huh? Livestream = Oh, I get what they do and remember enough to come back.