MikeMann.com .

Founder WashingtonVC, BuyDomains.com, and Grassroots.org

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Current
  • 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
  • CEO and Founder at BuyDomains.com (aka NameMedia)
  • President at Verio DC / Internet Interstate
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
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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

  • Founder and Chairman

    DomainMarket.com

    (Internet industry)

    September 2007Present (11 months)

  • Founder and Chairman

    Yield Software

    (Internet industry)

    February 2007Present (1 year 6 months)

  • Investor and Manager

    SEO.com

    (Internet industry)

    February 2007Present (1 year 6 months)

  • Founder and Manager

    Phone.com

    (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2007Present (1 year 7 months)

  • Investor and Manager

    Dial-A-Geek

    (Internet industry)

    December 2006Present (1 year 8 months)

  • Investor and Manager

    HappyBirthday.com

    (Internet industry)

    October 2006Present (1 year 10 months)

  • Chairman and Founder

    Make Change! Trust

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    January 2006Present (2 years 7 months)

  • Investor and Manager

    StrongTech

    (Internet industry)

    2006Present (2 years)

  • Investor

    Software.com

    (Internet industry)

    2006Present (2 years)

  • Investor and Manager

    Graphics.net

    (Internet industry)

    2006Present (2 years)

  • Chairman and Founder

    WashingtonVC

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    December 2005Present (2 years 8 months)

    Manager of Internet private equity fund.

  • Founder and Manager

    X3O Emerging Technologies

    (Internet industry)

    2005Present (3 years)

  • Chairman and Founder

    Grassroots.org

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    December 2004Present (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.

  • Chairman and Founder

    BrowserMedia

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    January 1999Present (9 years 7 months)

  • Investor

    NameMedia

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    December 1998Present (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.

  • CEO and Founder

    BuyDomains.com (aka NameMedia)

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    December 1998January 2005 (6 years 2 months)

    President of leading domain and PPC search company

  • President

    Verio DC / Internet Interstate

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)

    19951998 (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.


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