Then make up a user name and a password, retype the password and put in your birth date (must be older than the age of 13) and agree to the terms. After you click on the button that says Join than go to your email inbox to activate your account and sign in with your username and password and you are good to go.
Confidence votes 421. Baldwin, Siegel, and Bowker chose the name Starbucks in honor of Starbuck, the coffee-loving first mate in Herman Melville's Moby Dick (so company legend has it), and because they thought the name evoked the romance of the high seas and the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders.
Nearly two years ago, on February 7th, 2014, a small strange coffee shop opened. The coffee shop, purposefully named Dumb Starbucks, gained the attention of a confused few, who mistook it for the actual Starbucks, but overall flew under the radar. The next day, business was booming.