This Week in Startups did a video with the founders of Cocoon. Cocoon is a special app for your most special relationships, designed to keep you close no matter where you are. You want to start at 14:50 - The host says that's a great domain name, a $250,000 domain name. Did you pay that much? More or less, the founders say less, we can say less than $250,000. The one founder said it's … [Read more...]
The startups who raised the most money in 2019
Denise Stephan published a piece on the crunchbase blog of the startups that raised the most money in 2019. Number 1 was Flexport Last Equity Funding: $1B Series D Notable Investors: Softbank Vision Fund, DST Global, Founders Fund Flexport is a licensed customs brokerage and freight forwarder built around a modern web application. Its service includes a dashboard for businesses … [Read more...]
Playbuzz rebrands to Ex.co
Another startup moving from .com to .co Following in the footsteps of Supply.co, Playbuzz a company that helps publishers add tools to their articles like polls is rebranding to EX.co. TechCrunch reported: Co-founder and CEO Tom Pachys told me the name stands for “the experience company,” and he said it reflects the company’s broader content marketing ambitions. Ex.co will continue … [Read more...]
The 10 highest valued startups in the world
A look at the highest valued startups in the world according to CB Insights shows two Chinese companies at the top. Katharina Buchholz wrote on Statista.com Chinese AI company Bytedance is the highest-valued startup – currently private, up-and-coming company – in the world. The venture, which is valued at US$75 billion, is running content platform Toutiao in China, which uses machine … [Read more...]
Sale price of Navigator.com revealed
I had read a tweet some weeks back from Jamie @DotWeekly. It was regarding Navigator.com and Gentry Underwood. Gentry Underwood has acquired the https://t.co/OBdzqzsqAs domain name for his newest startup. It appears the domain was acquired around August 2018 according to whois history records. #AI #teamwork #brand #premium #domain https://t.co/In89RehGI1— Jamie Zoch (@DotWeekly) June 19, … [Read more...]
Company Using Hand Registered Domain in 2015 Which Dropped in 2012; Raises $6.5 Million
I just got finished reading a post in Venturebeat.com about a company named ReplyYes, which just raised $6.5 million dollars and whose website is ReplyYes.com The domain name has an original registration date in 2008 but was deleted for non-payment of renewal fees on March 27, 2012 by a former registrant. The domain sat unregistered until for over 3 years until May 12, 2015 when it was hand … [Read more...]
A Checklist for Naming 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 … [Read more...]