Founder WashingtonVC, BuyDomains.com, and Grassroots.org
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Founder and Chairman at DomainMarket.com
- Founder and Chairman at Yield Software
- Investor and Manager at SEO.com
- Founder and Manager at Phone.com
- Investor and Manager at Dial-A-Geek
- Investor and Manager at HappyBirthday.com
- Chairman and Founder at Make Change! Trust
- Investor and Manager at StrongTech
- Investor at Software.com
- Investor and Manager at Graphics.net
- Chairman and Founder at WashingtonVC
- Founder and Manager at X3O Emerging Technologies
- Chairman and Founder at Grassroots.org
- Chairman and Founder at BrowserMedia
- Investor at NameMedia
- Past
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- CEO and Founder at BuyDomains.com (aka NameMedia)
- President at Verio DC / Internet Interstate
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MikeMann.com .’s Summary
See http://mikemann.com/ -- Mike is Chairman and Founder of WashingtonVC, a fund whose portfolio of companies share resources, talent and technologies to deliver innovative digital products and services.
In '94 he founded Internet Interstate, which he sold to Verio in '97. In '98, he founded BuyDomains.com, the world's largest secondary market for domain names, and sold majority interest it to Highland Capital and Summit Partners in 2005, along with the "Seeq.com" search engine portal.
Between '98 and '01, he served as the founding Chairman of ByteBack.org (501c3), which operates free computer training centers serving inner-city communities.
Mann serves as the Founder and Chairman of Grassroots.org (a 501c3), a global network providing free services to nonprofits and promoting social action. He also manages Make Change! Trust, a charitable fund that supports select 501c3 organizations.
http://www.washingtonvc.com/wp-content/uploads/mike-mann-washington-business-journal.pdf
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/15/the-return-of-phonecom-and-softwarecom/
http://www.redherring.com/Home/23100
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/aug2007/sb20070815_210136.htm
http://dnjournal.com/cover/2007/september.htm
http://www.247wallst.com/2007/11/ipo-filing-name.html
http://www.examiner.com/articlePDF.cfm?articleID=895555
http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2007/june.htm
http://frankschilling.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/mike-mann-talks.html
http://domainnamenews.com/author/mmann/
http://www.moniker.com/domain-masters/ep-2006-02-22/page-1.jsp
http://www.webtalkguys.com/article-domains.shtml
http://www.dnjournal.com/columns/coverstory8.htm
http://www.topsets.com/computers-networking/article637.htm
http://www.dnjournal.com/articles/gr.htm
http://www.growthb2b.com/pdfs/2006/11_nov_06.pdf
http://media.webmasterradio.fm/episodes/audio/2006/DM022206.mp3
http://www.seobook.com/archives/002331.shtml
http://www.seobook.com/archives/002333.shtml
MikeMann.com .’s Experience
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Founder and Chairman
DomainMarket.com
(Internet industry)
September 2007 — Present (11 months)
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Founder and Chairman
Yield Software
(Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
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Investor and Manager
SEO.com
(Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
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Founder and Manager
Phone.com
(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
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Investor and Manager
Dial-A-Geek
(Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (1 year 8 months)
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Investor and Manager
HappyBirthday.com
(Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (1 year 10 months)
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Chairman and Founder
Make Change! Trust
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2006 — Present (2 years 7 months)
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Investor and Manager
StrongTech
(Internet industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
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Investor
Software.com
(Internet industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
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Investor and Manager
Graphics.net
(Internet industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
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Chairman and Founder
WashingtonVC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
December 2005 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Manager of Internet private equity fund.
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Founder and Manager
X3O Emerging Technologies
(Internet industry)
2005 — Present (3 years)
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Chairman and Founder
Grassroots.org
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2004 — Present (3 years 8 months)
Cutting edge charitable venture serving 1000 other charities with free Internet and business services, and a builder of social action web portals.
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Chairman and Founder
BrowserMedia
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1999 — Present (9 years 7 months)
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Investor
NameMedia
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 1998 — Present (9 years 8 months)
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.
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CEO and Founder
BuyDomains.com (aka NameMedia)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 1998 — January 2005 (6 years 2 months)
President of leading domain and PPC search company
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President
Verio DC / Internet Interstate
(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.
