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.
First Starbucks Franchise. With the largest market share in the United States, 37 percent, Starbucks was one of the companies in the sector hardest hit by declining disposable income. By the end of 2009, it closed some 900 company-operated stores worldwide. Sales have since rebounded, but Starbucks may now have to weather a debt crisis in Europe just as it rolls out a vigorous Starbucks franchise program there.