10 SUCCESSFUL

ONLINE BUSINESSES

By Alodia Faytaren

EBAY
-A person-to-person auction site
founded by Pierre Morad Omidyar
-The website finds its success in
trade goods of an unimaginable
variety
-The first item sold on the site was
a broken laser pointer
-Makes money from taking cuts
off
of sellers transaction deals
-Net worth: $8 billion

NETFLIX
-An international provider of ondemand Internet streaming media
created by Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr.
-Includes movies, TV shows,
documentaries, live-performances,
etc
- Grew more successful by
partnering with Apple, PlayStation,
Wii, & XBOX
-Has over 50 million members
worldwide
-Net worth: $1.58 billion

AMAZON
- The largest Internet-based
retailer in the United States
- Founded by Jeff Bezos
- Widely known for its wide
selection of books, electronics,
furniture, and apparel
- Makes money by selling its
own products and getting a cut
from third-party sales
- Net worth: $46.7 billion

FACEBOOK
- Facebookis a social networking
website that makes it easy for you
to connect and share with your
family and friends online
-Was created in creator Mark
Zuckerbergs dorm room at
Harvard University
- First social network to surpass 1
billion registered accounts
-Makes money through
advertisements
-Net worth: $35.7 billion

CLUBPENGUIN
- A massively multiplayer online
game involving a virtual world
containing a range of online games
and activities
- Created by New Horizon
Interactive
- Had over 30 million users by
2007
- Makes money through online
memberships
- Was purchased by Disney for
$700 M

SKYPE
- A part of Microsoft where you
can make video and audio calls,
exchange chat messages, etc
- Founded in 2003 by Janus Friis
and Niklas Zennstrom
- Has 300 million users
-Microsoft paid $8.5 Billion for
Skype
- They make money through
Skype Credit and monthly
subscriptions

GOOGLE
-An American multinational
technology company specializing in
Internet-related service and
products
-Google earns the US $20 Billion a
year from advertising
-Every 2 minutes, 2 million
searches are performed on Google
-Google is the worlds most visited
website
-Founded by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin
- Net worth: $50 Billion

WEEBLY

-A global platform that lets people

easily create a unique website, blog,
or online store
-Great for portfolios, small
businesses, students, and teachers
-Company headquarters is in San
Francisco
-Founded by 22-year old students that
attended Penn State
-Inspired by the student portfolios
that they were required to make

YOUTUBE
-YouTube is a video-sharing website
-On average, 100 hours of video
are uploaded on YT every minute
-Makes money from
advertisements on videos
-In October 2006, Google bought
YouTube for $1.65 billion in stocks,
just18 months after YouTubes
creation.
-Most viewed video: Charlie Bit My
Finger

IPSY
- Ipsy is a monthly beauty and
makeup subscription box
- Each month, subscribers
receive a makeup bag filled with
makeup and beauty products
selected by the founders
- $10/ Month
- Makes money by using
smaller-sized products sold by
companies at a discounted prize