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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

In the end, Plated was able to use the domain to prove out its minimal viable product for a nominal amount of cash, raise capital, and purchase the domain in full. The traditional ways they’ve monetized domains – type-in traffic in particular, but also lead generation —are not working as well as they used to.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

In the end, Plated was able to use the domain to prove out its minimal viable product for a nominal amount of cash, raise capital, and purchase the domain in full. The traditional ways they’ve monetized domains – type-in traffic in particular, but also lead generation —are not working as well as they used to.

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

Cracking the Code

Like SaaS products themselves, we now intend for these laws to be periodically refined through major releases to reflect the changing landscape of the SaaS world. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production.