Names & Domains For Startups
From Bill Sweetman Sweetmantra.com. Via Andrew Allemann.
When you own a large portfolio of premium domain names for sale, like we do at YummyNames, you get a lot of purchase inquiries. This is a typical one. While it is not based on an actual inquiry (tempting though that may have been), this video captures the spirit of many of the inquiries we get from people who are shocked we won’t sell a premium domain name to them for $50.
Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit and Hipmunk was recently the guest on This Week In Startups with Jason Calacanis. In this audio clip, Steve and Jason share their frustration with acquiring good dot coms and discuss their minimal criteria for choosing a domain. Funny that but for the random passing of a S. American tourist, Reddit might have ended up being called Read.ly or something worse. This is a great episode where Steve tells the story of how Reddit got made, and then sold. He was 22 when he and a co-founder sold Reddit to Conde Naste for a rumored $25M. You can check out the entire episode, with show notes, here.
(Click arrow to play audio clip) Steve Huffman My rule is something you can spell.
What’s so impressive about John’s story is that he learned from it and moved on.
Unfortunately I don’t know which podcast this clip came from. There’s no intro or outro, it’s from an interview I stumbled upon through a search for John Reese after I heard about the $million dollar launch of a product called Traffic Secrets. What’s so impressive about John’s story is that he learned from it and moved on.
(Click arrow to play audio clip) John Reese’s Million Dollar domain story.