Founder Grassroots.org, Phone.com, DomainMarket.com
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Founder Grassroots.org, Phone.com, DomainMarket.com
Washington D.C. Metro Area
See http://mikemann.com/ -- Mike is the founder and chairman of Grassroots.org (501c3), a global network providing free services to non-profits and promoting social action. He also founded and manages Make Change! Trust, a charitable fund that supports select 501c3 organizations. See http://grassroots.org/ and http://makechangetrust.org/
Mike is founder of successful, active, for-profit corporations also including Phone.com, SEO.com, Skateboards.com, DomainMarket.com, Yield Software, BrowserMedia, Graphics.net, and others. In many cases his companies exchange resources, talent and technologies in their never-ending quest to deliver innovative, profitable digital products and services.
In 1994 he founded Internet Interstate, which he sold to Verio Inc. in 1997.
In 1998, he founded BuyDomains.com (now NameMedia), the world’s largest secondary market for domain names, and sold majority interest to Highland Capital and Summit Partners in 2005, along with the “Seeq.com” search engine portal. See http://buydomains.com/
Between 1998 and 2001, Mike served as the founding Chairman of the non-profit ByteBack.org, which is an innovator in operating free computer and job training centers serving inner-city communities.
Mike is the author of Make Millions and Make Change! a book focused on making money in small business so we can better serve society. Please see http://www.makemillions.com/
Contact: mikemann at mikemann dot com
http://www.webstreetjournal.com/
http://www.domainsuccess.com/gratitude/mike-mann-smart-branding-passion-charity/
http://books.google.com/books?id=O2hEtUNVyTUC&q=mann#search
http://www.washingtonvc.com/wp-content/uploads/mike-mann-washington-business-journal.pdf
http://blog.domaintools.com/tags/mike-mann/
http://www.dnjournal.com/articles/gr.htm
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/15/the-return-of-phonecom-and-softwarecom/
http://www.redherring.com/Home/23100
http://www.seobook.com/archives/002331.shtml
(Internet industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
(Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
(Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
(Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
(Internet industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
(Internet industry)
2005 — Present (4 years )
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
December 2005 — Present (4 years )
Manager of Internet private equity fund.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2004 — Present (5 years )
Cutting edge charitable venture serving 1000 other charities with free Internet and business services, and a builder of social action web portals.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1999 — Present (10 years 11 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 1998 — Present (11 years )
I am the founder of BuyDomains.com (the world's best and largest premium domain markeplace) which is now called NameMedia (see S-1 filing), I am currently the largest noninstitutional shareholder of this entity which has filed for a public offering.
(Internet industry)
December 2006 — September 2008 (1 year 10 months)
(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
2006 — August 2008 (2 years )
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 1998 — January 2005 (6 years 2 months)
President of leading domain and PPC search company
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years )
President and founder of Internet Interstate which was a business service ISP and web developer, which became part of a rollup called Verio, which proceeded to go public and then was sold to NTT.