Founder Grassroots.org, Phone.com, DomainMarket.com
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 at HappyBirthday.com
- Chairman and Founder at Make Change! Trust
- Investor at Graphics.net
- Investor at Software.com
- Founder at X3O Emerging Technologies
- Chairman and Founder at WashingtonVC
- Chairman and Founder at Grassroots.org
- Chairman and Founder at BrowserMedia
- Investor at NameMedia
- Past
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- Investor at Dial-A-Geek
- Investor at StrongTech
- 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 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
MikeMann.com .’s Experience
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Founder and Chairman
DomainMarket.com
(Internet industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
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Founder and Chairman
Yield Software
(Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
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Investor and Manager
SEO.com
(Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
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Founder and Manager
Phone.com
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
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Investor
HappyBirthday.com
(Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
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Chairman and Founder
Make Change! Trust
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
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Investor
Graphics.net
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
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Investor
Software.com
(Internet industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
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Founder
X3O Emerging Technologies
(Internet industry)
2005 — Present (4 years )
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Chairman and Founder
WashingtonVC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
December 2005 — Present (4 years )
Manager of Internet private equity fund.
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Chairman and Founder
Grassroots.org
(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.
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Chairman and Founder
BrowserMedia
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1999 — Present (10 years 11 months)
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Investor
NameMedia
(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.
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Investor
Dial-A-Geek
(Internet industry)
December 2006 — September 2008 (1 year 10 months)
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Investor
StrongTech
(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
2006 — August 2008 (2 years )
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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.
