Tag Archives: startups

Wed 4th November 2015
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Checklist for how to name a startup - Dharmesh Shah wrote an article on Inbound.org that detailed his checklist for choosing a start up name. Shah writes he has been thinking about naming and branding for 20 years. He also mentions some of the data points he looked at when coming up with his checklist. He looked at over 4,000 start up names, he looked at length of name, starting letters, TLD, etc… From the article: The S.M.A.R.T. Startup Name Checklist So, let’s start with my handy-dandy checklist for what makes for a good startup ... read more ...
Thu 24th September 2015
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NameDrive owner rising new startup in Austin - Greg Manriquez launching Videotape app. NameDrive founder Greg Manriquez, who sold the domain parking company to KeyDrive, is working on his next startup. Videotape is an app that allows you to easily add your own video or audio to another video and share it. There are a number of interesting use cases for this, including adding commentary to a video and sharing it on a blog or social media, or adding a short promotional message to a video. Manriquez is self-funding the startup, which has an office ... read more ...
Sun 6th September 2015
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Tuft & Needle Mattress Startup Buy Premium Domain Name TN.com - On the morning of September 4, 2015 I had a pretty good hunch that the premium 2 letter domain name TN.com likely sold and now we have confirmation that it did and to who! TN.com is now redirecting to TuftAndNeedle.com, which is a startup founded in 2013 that offers mattresses that are delivered to your door in a box. They are the buyers of the domain name TN.com. Tuft And Needle has the highest rated mattress on Amazon.com and prices start from $600 for a queen and $750 for a California King, delivered ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2015
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CB Insights: Covers World's Most Popular Non-.com Startup Domains, though Confused on New gTLD's - CB Insights.com which covers the startup/ venture capital markets published an interesting post entitled “The Non-Dotcom Bubble: The World’s Most Popular Startup Domains Other Than .Com” The story contains a chart tracking the most popular Non-.Com domain name extensions for funded tech companies from 2010-2015. Of course since the first new gTLD didn’t launch until 2014, none are reflected in the chart. Unfortunately as you will see later,  CB Insights is very confused about new gTLD’s ... read more ...
Wed 12th August 2015
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Domainer Merlin Kauffman's Soothe Startup Picks adult $10.6M In New Funding - Merlin Kauffman is a domain name investor and president of True Magic, LLC which owns many great domain names like Exclusive.com, Lookup.com, Conferences.com, FileSharing.com, Volunteers.com, and Tabloids.com to mention a few. Merlin is also the Founder and CEO of  Soothe which is an on-demand massage service which launched in April 2013. The company just picked up a cool $10.6 million in new funding according to a story on TechCrunch.com! As I began talking with massage therapists, they kept telling ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2015
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European Start Up Accelerator Reveals Latest Startups and a lot of them use a .io extension - Tech Crunch did a story on Entrepreneur First which is a European accelerator for start-ups along the lines of the popular Y Combinator. Entrepreneur First is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London. We select purely on the basis of technical talent, so you can apply before you have a team or an idea. Our intensive 7-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 100 days of your startup’s life. ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2015
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TechCrunch Covers TheDrop.Club: By Twitch/Exec co-founder and Y Combinator Partner Justin Kan - Techcrunch.com just covered TheDrop.club, what they describe as a “Digg/Reddit/Hacker News/Product Hunt for electronic dance music” The site is Thedrop.club and “Twitch/Exec co-founder and Y Combinator partner Justin Kan told TechCrunch: “I wanted something to create a constant stream of new electronic music tracks every day” TechCrunch.com goes on to describe the site: “Built on open-source curation interface Telescope and the SoundCloud API, The Drop.club lets you stream through a list ... read more ...
Mon 19th January 2015
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51 of 64 Finalists & Alternatives for SXSW Accelerator Competition Using A .Com: Next is .io - FINALISTSCrate.IO Vorarlberg, Austria Crate.IO has built a new breed of database to serve today’s mammoth data needs. Based on the familiar SQL syntax, Crate combines high availability, resiliency, and scalability in a distributed design that allows you to query mountains of data in real-time, not batches. Crate.IO is easy to scale and simple to use.Hypori Austin, TX Hypori is an enterprise software company providing Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI) – accessible from Android and iOS devices. ... read more ...
Fri 28th November 2014
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Coffee.Club Launches: 40% Discount Black Friday-Cyber Monday & Free Membership To A Reader Of TheDomains -                 Coffee.club, a subscription-based coffee club that delivers among the freshest access to organic, launched its site today at Coffee.Club on Black Friday to appeal to the more than 54% of Americans who drink coffee on a daily basis. To celebrate the launch, in the tradition of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, Coffee.Club is be offering a special 40% discount on all orders placed between  Friday, November 28th through Monday, December 1st using the code “DotClub” at checkout. Moreover,  ... read more ...
Mon 24th November 2014
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A Survivor of The Dot Com Bubble – Cufflinks.com - Maria Halkias of DallasNews.com wrote a piece on a survivor of the .com bubble of the late nineties. Cufflinks.com. Halkias did a good job conveying where the company is now and how it got there from those crazy bubble days of 1999 – 2000. From the article: Cufflinks.com was founded in 1999 during the dot-com bubble, when lots of startups were created based on the business model of a category word followed by “.com.” But this one survived beyond its cutesy domain name. And the company is thriving ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2014
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Take The Start Up Names Quiz - For those that specialize in the brandable niche of domaining, you know you have seen some funky names get picked by start ups and some go on to get pretty sizable funding. It is the subjective nature of domain names and branding. You will always think I got names much better and they never get a bite and this name that just got $5 million in funding flunks the radio test, has many different possible spellings when heard by a consumer etc… The Verge put together a little quiz to match the domain ... read more ...
Tue 22nd July 2014
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Design Start Up Canva gets $3.6 million in additonal appropriation and enters partnership with Go Daddy - Australian start-up Canva received an additional $3.6 million in financing and announced a partnership with Go Daddy. The product does seem cool for those that don’t have the skills of a trained graphic artist. Crunch Base – Canva makes graphic design amazingly simple for everyone, by bringing together a drag-and-drop design tool with a library of more than 1 million stock photographs, graphic elements and fonts. Computer World wrote: Australian startup Canva has announced an additional $3.6 ... read more ...
Wed 18th June 2014
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ThoughtSpot.com Acquired On Afternic For $9,500 Last Aug Raises $30 Million -                 The domain name Thoughtspot.com sold on Afternic in August 2013 for $9,500. Today Term Sheet is reporting that the company who bought the domain is now named  ThoughtSpot, it is located in a Redwood City, California and is a  “provider of search-based business intelligence solutions, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. ” “Khosla Ventures led the round, and was joined by Aaron Levie and return backers like Lightspeed Venture Partners. www.thoughtspot.com In ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
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Linton’s Fashion Metric Selected As 1 of 11 Out of 1,500 For Techstars Austin - Morgan and Daina Linton’s FashionMetric.com, which uses big data to enhance fit and sizing for men’s clothing is one of 11 startups selected for the latest class of Techstars Austin. FashionMetric was founded in 2012 by Morgan and Daina and world famous entrepreneur Mark Cuban owns part of the company. The news was reported by Xconomy.com Techstars says that more than 1,500 startups applied for this year’s class. The program gives each startup $18,000 in seed funding, provides office space, ... read more ...
Mon 2nd June 2014
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One Scottish Company Wants to Redo The Internet - Business Insider covered MaidSafe a company out of Scotland that is looking to redo the Internet. The goal seems to build a decentralized Internet, kind of like a Bitcoin model. They want to do away with the need for servers and data centers and use the unused resources of every computer in the network. From the article: The founders of a Scottish company called MaidSafe had a wild idea. What if you were to give the internet a makeover, changing it so that it’s absolutely safe from hackers and ... read more ...
Wed 9th April 2014
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According to one start adult they indispensable to pierce to a .com - There has been a lot of discussion about start ups embracing the new gtlds, it was the choices they needed, that they want to keep their original company name and not have to change just to get the .com. I believe that is true for some, and they will embrace it. There are still many that believe .com is where it’s at. Today we get another example that will make the .com only camp happy, Moot has rebranded itself to Muut. The company did a post on their blog discussing the transition and it was ... read more ...
Fri 14th March 2014
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Teabox.com sole by MostWantedDomains Featured in Tech Crunch - Back in June of 2013 our very own Michael Berkens and his company Most Wanted Domains sold Teabox.com for $30,000. Today the company was featured on Tech Crunch as the company is seeking to raise $1million in seed funding. Now TeaBox, a speciality e-commerce startup based in the North Eastern town of Siliguri in India, is raising around $1 million in seed funding led by Accel Partners India to serve fresh tea packages across Russia, US, China and Japan. Another investor participating in this round ... read more ...
Mon 3rd March 2014
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Top10.com purchased in 2010 for $1million in Cash and Equity, Receives $8 Million in Funding - Tech Crunch reported about an hour ago that Top10.com received $8 million in Series B funding. The article also touched upon when the domain Top10.com was purchased back in 2010. Frank Michlick from Domain Name News had the exact facts back in 2010 on the deal. From Domain Name News: Incubator Idealab sold the domain name Top10.com for $200,000 USD in cash and a 7% equity stake in the new Top10.com Media Ltd. company. Idealab founder Bill Gross will join the advisory board of the company. Top10.com ... read more ...
Fri 7th February 2014
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LinkedIn acquires Bright.com - LinkedIn made their largest acquistion yet acquiring Bright.com. Tech Crunch covered the acquisition which coincided with LinkedIn reporting earnings on Thursday. From the article: Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $120 million. The deal, which was 70 percent stock and 30 percent cash the company said, will be completed during the first quarter ... read more ...