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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

Ari Rabban, CEO of our portfolio company Phone.com , said, “I saw many great business opportunities in the telecom space fail because of marketing. According to Braden Pollock of Legal Brand Marketing, approximately 50 million names – 20% of all registered domains — are parked. I previously published this in Forbes.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

Ari Rabban, CEO of our portfolio company Phone.com , said, “I saw many great business opportunities in the telecom space fail because of marketing. According to Braden Pollock of Legal Brand Marketing, approximately 50 million names – 20% of all registered domains — are parked. I previously published this in Forbes.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. But in this context, how do you calibrate your sales and marketing investment and how do you know if these tradeoffs make sense and are ultimately “profitable”?