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When to Pay a Premium for Your Company Domain Name

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once at not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. Who owns all of these names, and should you ever buy one for a premium? Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire of over 300,000 domain names. Register the name if available.

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How Much Should You Pay For a Great Domain Name?

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once at not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. Who owns all of these names, and should you ever buy one for a premium? Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire of over 300,000 domain names. Register the name if available.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Coming up with our business name, Stellar Villa, was quite a process. This allowed us to knock a few more names off the list.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

And of course many of you know this is near and dear to me because my own father is from Medellín, Colombia so I grew up in a household with the music, food, culture and language of South America. So they began signing up Spanish-language content producers in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and so forth.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

Marcelino Lopez, Colombia. Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. His output shot up over 1,100% and his profits increased nearly six-fold. He’s using the money to buy more nutritious food for his family and pay for his sons’ schooling.

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“Visibility” — A Powerful Lesson on DACA and The American Dream from @LeonKrauze

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As a Jewish person I know something about this scapegoating because it is the history of my people for 2,000+ years including the Pogroms in Eastern Europe that cause my family to escape using fake passports and wind up in South America (Colombia) in search of a better life.

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My Commencement Speech?—?Life at Your Crossroads

Both Sides of the Table

My dad was an immigrant from Colombia. The right company and colleagues are better than the perfect title, role or brand name. I heard that your school is 5th in the nation at helping lift people born in the bottom 20% income levels into the top 20%. That’s an amazing statistic and reminded me of my family’s journey. Find your tribes.

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