Richland Entrepreneurs Pull Big Names
Seattle, Wash Mark A. Michael and Daniel L. Rust from Richland, WA are long-time business partners who never stopped thinking big! Their company EVO Landing operates a rapidly growing network of over 50,000 niche web sites including big names such as Beef.com, Funeral.com and WhiteBeer.com
EVO has already generated a lot of interest in the investment community nationally as well as Seattle; attracting money from big names such as Richard Wolpert (former President of Disney Online); Alex Algard (CEO of WhitePages.com); Fred Davis (a prominent entertainment lawyer with clients such as Kanye West and Whitney Houston); Jeff Schrock (former VP of Mergers and Acquisitions at Yahoo and Real Networks); Rob Monster (founder of Global Market Insite) and Geoff Entress, a well-known Pacific Northwest Angel Investor.
Rust, the companys Co-founder/Chief Architect built the technology that aggregates the web like Google and delivers useful, advertiser friendly sites like Yahoo in less than 1 second.
"Once we launched the EVO Landing platform interest expanded across the industry, bringing to us some of the industry's best known pioneers," says Daniel Rust. "As we further evolve the product, interest continues to grow."
EVO has had over 3 million domain names submitted for development. And has partnered with and impressive list of internet companies including but not limited to: Shopping.com, SuperPages.com, Infospace.com, CareerBuilder.com, Amazon.com, Google.com, Foreclosure.com, Priceline.com, Zillow.com etc.
"Currently we have over 100,000 additional new sites ready to go live after our December 1st scheduled upgrade," explains Mark Michael Co-founder/SVP Strategic Marketing. "We have partnered with the premier institutions of the web."
EVO occupies over 2000 square feet in Seattle's ritzy Belltown neighborhood with offices that have 180 degree views of the city and Puget Sound.
I still love the Tri-cities more than Seattle and am excited to be home for Thanksgiving, both Rust and Michael agree.
Current projections show the company will be profitable at the end of Q4 2008. With revenues expected to climb to over $60 million by 2011.
Michael and Rust have worked together since 16 years old beginning at Richland High School. In the last year they were introduced to their current CEO/ Co-founder Geoffrey Nuval through a childhood friend from the Tri-cities. Nuval who worked in venture capital at Lehman Brothers and graduated with Honors from Stanford says, When I met Mark and Daniel I knew these two could make it big. Mark has the instinct and a brute force personality and Daniel is calculated and technologically superior to others I have met in the web industry.
Since its inception in mid-2007, EVO Landing has quickly evolved into the next-generation media company built around its ability to quickly build impressive topic-relevant, media-rich websites. Every site they manage is updated dynamically with semantically processed rich-media and provides creative community features that promote spontaneous and natural user growth.
