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.
Like us on Facebook. Starbucks is the coffee icon people either love or love to hate. The Seattle company opened its first shop in 1971, and all these years later, the coffee giant is still brewing up addictive drinks and venti-sized controversy across the globe.Here are 10 things you might not have known about Starbucks.n 2008 and 2009, as millions of Starbucks customers lost their latte money â and their homes, cars and first born children â to the recession, the coffee giant was forced to shrink just a tad.