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StartUps.com shutting down Daily Deal site after a Year

May 3rd, 2012 Comments off

Screenshot of StartUps.com EmailIn an email to its subscribers today, Startups.com Network, Inc. announced that they are  shutting down their daily deal site, StartUps.com after a year. The company states that they “didn’t achieve the ambitious goals we set for ourselves when we launched only 1 year ago. ” While the letter does not state anything about the future of the site, it also mentions that the company is selling Blinklist.com.

Startups.com Network, Inc. is the company behind KillerStartups.com. Serial entrepreneur Matias De Tezanos, who has worked with many premium domain names before, is an investor in the company.

See the full email after the jump.

Startups.com Is Closing Up Shop…


Yeah, unfortunately we couldn’t make a go of it. We didn’t achieve the ambitious goals we set for ourselves when we launched only 1 year ago. So, with regret, this news of our departure from
the realm of Daily Deals. This may be a shocker to some of you and we want you to know that we’re really sorry we failed to achieve your expectations.
It’s Spring and it feels like the right time for us to do some Spring cleaning. We’re evaluating all of the projects we’re working on, (and we’ve got tons, believe me), and unfortunately we had to
make the painful decision of shutting down Startups.com as a Daily Deal service.

We’re selling Blinklist.com, and shutting down other sites as well. There’s no point in going on
with something just because you’ve been doing it for a certain amount of time. In a startup, as
you well know, everything takes up your precious resources. And people’s time and effort is something we can’t afford to waste. We believe this is the right time to pull the plug.

New and fresh ideas need room to grow and for us that means clearing out some of the old ideas which never took off. We wanna thank you, one of our 20,000 loyal subscribers for sticking with us for all this time.

We’re really sorry we couldn’t make it work for you. But hey, life goes on. Best of luck in your endeavors, we shut our doors knowing that we did all we could to help you grow your online business, which was our main goal for launching Startups.com as a Daily Deal site.

To Your Continued Success!

gonzo P.S. Reach out to me at gonzo@startups.com with comments, concerns, just to say “Sorry, it was good while it lasted,” or to share your stories about the awesome Deals you got on Startups.com.

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Matias de Tezanos’ BrokersWeb.com Makes Inc. 500

August 24th, 2011 Comments off

After watching an interview on MO.com with Brent Beshore, an Inc 500 entrepreneur, I cruised over to Inc.com and noticed another familiar name in the list of the fastest growing companies.  Matias de Tezanos and his company BrokerWeb.com ranked #20 in the 2011 Inc 500issue. The company saw a 3 year growth of 8,127% with 2010 Revenues of $15.7 million.

Tezanos has has a stellar track record as an entrepreneur starting his career at the age of 20 launching Hoteles.com (sold to Expedia in 2002). He also sold his company ClickDiario.com to Livedoor.com which later sold to NewsCorp in 2007. ClickDiario was rated one of the top 10 largest Spanish networks at the time of the sale with over 25 million monthly users.  The company portfolio included incredible domains such as Deportes.com (Sports), Salud.com (Health), Mujer.com (Women), Mascotas.com (Pets), Boletines.com (Newsletters), Dietas.com (Diets), and Tarjetas.com (Greeting Cards).

His current company BrokersWeb.com, runs a dozen niche sites mostly focused on insurance products on some great domains including Healthcare.com, AutoInsuranceFinders.com and LifeInsurance.org.  Tezanos is also an investor in DomainHoldings.

If you haven’t heard of Tezanos, you may want to read some history from a 2005 DnJournal story.

Congrats Matias and BrokerWeb.com