Fundable Acquires Clarity.fm as Part of Its New Launch Platform, Startups.co

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31 points·ph0rque··7 comments

Is there any way to tell within Fundable how much equity the startup gave up in order to attain their funding goal? Referring to these examples: https://www.fundable.com/raise-capital

There's not.

Why choose a ".co" instead of an entirely different name or TLD? Isn't .co quiet confusing? I think its a bad name inspite of the fact that most people come to you via a search engine.

Because it doesn't really matter anymore, it seems. Lots of established sites are on alternative TLDs now or at least began on them. I imagine the number of people who type in full domains to access a site each time nowadays without autocomplete coming up is very low.

I think "it doesn't really matter anymore" is right on the money.

.co as a TLD was essentially built around tech companies and directly marketed to them.

Plus if we're honest - most of the time people Google for companies websites that don't autocomplete in their address bar...

As an OTT example: If I want to come to Hacker News I type HN into Google and its the top result. I type two letters and click one link vs typing 'news.ycombinator.com' (typing 'news' for me brings the BBC). If a startup has put thought into their branding then a full web address isn't needed to find them. For that reason .co isn't confusing to most web users these days.

The .com would probably cost them 20x more. Not worth the price, especially for a startup.

It's taken.

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