'dot-com' Tag

• France’s “Paypal-killer” Paylib forgets to secure its dot-com

  April 30, 2014

  In the past I’ve written about the importance of owning the dot-com domain extension. Even my grandmother grasped this notion.. Paylib, unfortunately for them, did not heed my grandmother’s advice. . . France’s attempt to create a Paypal-killer, the Paylib payment solution created by a consortium of three of France’s largest banks — BNP Paribas, […]

  posted in technology by mark bivens

• Owning the dot-com: even my grandma understood

  June 26, 2012

  I remember back in 1996 when my grandmother (since passed, bless her soul) caught me off guard, as she had a knack for doing, with a highly-esoteric tech question. She had invited me for lunch at the Hobees in Cupertino, an annual ritual in which we caught up on each others’ lives, and toward the […]

  posted in technology, venture capital by mark