{"id":2362,"date":"2020-02-15T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T01:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2020-02-15T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T01:37:19","slug":"naming-and-domains-rev-coms-ceo-jason-chicola-with-shaan-puri-on-the-my-first-million-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/naming-and-domains-rev-coms-ceo-jason-chicola-with-shaan-puri-on-the-my-first-million-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming and Domains &#8211; Rev.com&#8217;s CEO Jason Chicola with Shaan Puri on the My First Million Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2364\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/my-first-million\/id1469759170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2364 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/..\/media\/shaanPuri.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/..\/media\/shaanPuri.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/..\/media\/shaanPuri-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shaan Puri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2363\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2363 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/..\/media\/jasonChicola.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Chicola<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Excerpt from the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/getting-a-billion-people-working-from-home\/id1469759170?i=1000463989947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getting a Billion People Working From Home<\/a>&#8216; episode of the My First Million podcast with Shaan Puri. The entire episode (linked to above) is great but I wanted to focus on what Jason Chicola shares about naming his company and acquiring the domain. \u00a0 He demonstrates some hard-earned wisdom in his approach.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2362-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/..\/media\/Jason-Chicola-Shaan-Puri-My-First-Million-Podcast.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/..\/media\/Jason-Chicola-Shaan-Puri-My-First-Million-Podcast.mp3\">https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/..\/media\/Jason-Chicola-Shaan-Puri-My-First-Million-Podcast.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h3>Chicola spent $400k to acquire Rev.com (a huge part of their assets at the time).<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Started off with a funky (animal + keyword) $12 Godaddy domain to make clear and specific their initial product offering. Knew it was temporary. &#8220;Spend no time at the beginning thinking about a name because the odds that your business is going to work are not super high&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Only later when the business was working and they&#8217;d found a good product\/market fit did he prioritize naming the company.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s really a two part problem. One is picking a name that you love, and then figuring out can you get the domain name&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Hired two domain brokers to research his name list.<\/li>\n<li>Used Mechanical Turk to evaluate names&#8230;&#8221;What three words does this name evoke?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from the &#8216;Getting a Billion People Working From Home&#8216; episode of the My First Million podcast with Shaan Puri. The entire episode (linked to above) is great but I wanted to focus on what Jason Chicola shares about naming his company and acquiring the domain. \u00a0 He demonstrates some hard-earned wisdom in his approach. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/naming-and-domains-rev-coms-ceo-jason-chicola-with-shaan-puri-on-the-my-first-million-podcast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Naming and Domains &#8211; Rev.com&#8217;s CEO Jason Chicola with Shaan Puri on the My First Million Podcast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[4,643,642,540,641,644],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","tag-domains","tag-jason-chicola","tag-my-first-million","tag-naming","tag-rev-com","tag-shaan-puri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domainnoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}