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How We Acquired Groupon.com

Monday, July 19, 2010

Mixergy’s Andrew Warner recently interviewed Groupon’s Andrew Mason. This clip discusses how Groupon got Groupon.com. Full interview with video and transcription can be found at Mixergy. Andrew calls it ‘the perfect name’, but another fellow with a similar idea already owned Groupon.com. He didn’t want to sell it and he didn’t want to work together. [...]

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Is a Hyphen Worth $15,000 Dollars

Monday, July 19, 2010

Mixergy’s Andrew Warner recently interviewed Blank-Label.com‘s co-founder Danny Wong. This clip discusses Danny’s frustration with trying to acquire the domain BlankLabel.com Full interview with video and transcription can be found at Mixergy. [Note: Danny was Skyping in from China so the audio clip is a little funky.] Danny calls the owner of BlankLabel.com both a [...]

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Inane Domain Names – InaneDomainNames.com

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

I’m starting a collection of inane domain names. InaneDomainNames.com will resolve to this page on the blog. If it generates enough interest I’ll move it to it’s own site at some point. Please send me your favorite Inane Domain Names (and why you think they’re inane)! I’m overwhelmed. Just watched ThisWeekInVentureCapital and one after another [...]

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Domains ARE Brands!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

I’ve been listening to a LOT of startup related podcasts. Especially ThisWeekInStartups.com mentioned earlier and Andrew Warner’s Mixergy.com. I’ve pretty much spent the last month going over every one of Andrew’s podcasts. It’s surprising how many startups miss the boat on domains and how that can impact marketing efforts. I think this clip from an [...]

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