Entrepreneur:
“C I Host commands some impressive figures: 210,000 customers, as many as 5,000 new customers every month, 8,000 resellers around the world, a 37,000-square-foot data center and 9,000 servers. Another interesting number: 15. That’s the age at which Christopher Faulkner started his first business selling baseball cards and sports memorabilia out of a small storefront in […]
Post Chronicle:
“Irish upstart and entrepreneur Aodhan Cullen built his web analytic tool, StatCounter, at the tender age of 16 in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland. Cullen was looking for a way to help his web page clients as way to see the number of “hits” they would get on their websites, along with other measurements, […]
Kansas City Star:
“Stratman, a pilot for a major airline, started his business (transfering photographs to canvas) after the company filed for bankruptcy.
“I decided to take more control of my financial life,” he said.
He chose an Internet-based business because startup costs are low and the potential customer base is worldwide.
Strengths: Perfectionism and honesty serve him well.
“I won’t […]
Business2.com:
“Social networks are a dime a dozen these days, but last week a new one launched called Geni that is actually quite different than anything else out there. David Sacks, Founder, thinks of Geni as more of a family network site than a MySpace-style social network. As he puts it:
You have social networks and professional networks. The […]
Boston Herald:
“Launching the first part of its service next week, AuctionPal works by letting users send in photos of items they want to sell on the Internet. The company then asks customers a series of questions about their items and creates auction profiles for them on sites like eBay and Craigslist. Once the item is […]
Startups.co.uk :
“Husband and wife Melissa and Alistair Rogerson were keen to set up a business together, so when they finally came up with the right idea – an online anniversary present service – it was all go from there.
What the business does:
We offer a carefully chosen range of gifts, cards, hampers and fresh flowers so that […]
East Valley Tribune
“Protege Sports is the idea of entrepreneur Ron Shaffer to help anyone with an Internet connection learn the fine points of baseball, golf, tennis, and other sports directly from the pros.
If your kid is having trouble with his stance in the batter’s box, maybe former Angel Tim Salmon can help. Want to improve […]
Seattle Times
“Every now and then, an online prospector hits the mother lode, inspiring others to keep digging.
That’s happening now with iLike, a fledgling Seattle startup that suddenly, over the past three weeks, became one of the biggest online music services. Piqued by co-founder Hadi Partovi’s blog describing the surge, I asked what it’s like to […]
MagicProposals.com, started by Joshua Levs, Helps bachelors come up with the most magical marriage proposal possible.
Entrepreneur.com says: “Levs was a reporter before he began MagicProposals, and he’d had his fill of covering bad news. “Bombings, terrorism, war, Katrina, political divisiveness. They’re important stories, but they do eat away at your soul,” he says. “Doing this is […]
