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2. Many of today's ONLINE
BUSINESS have started
out with the bare essentials.
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3. A LAPTOP
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4. INTERNET CONNECTION
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5. and most importantly
- A PASSION
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6. Let's take a closer look at seven
successful online businesses,
how they started out and what
we can learn from them.
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8. Founder:
Mark Zuckerberg
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9. Starting Funds:
$0. Started as a hobby.
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10. Where It All Began:
Zuckerberg's college dorm room,
where he hacked into Harvard's protected computer
networks.
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11. Start Up Story:
Zuckerberg used existing
information and presented
in a new way to create a
new way for people to
socialise.
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12. Starting an Online
Business Lesson:
You can work with
what already exists to
create something new
that people never knew
they wanted.
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14. Founders:
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
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15. Starting Funds
Own personal funds.
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16. Where It All Began:
In a friend's garage.
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17. Start Up Story:
Google originally ran
under the Stanford
University website URL:
google.stanford.edu
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18. Starting an Online Business
Lesson:
You don’t even need your
own website to start your
online business.
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20. Founder:
Chad Hurley
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21. Starting Funds:
Personal Funds
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22. Where It All Began:
In the PayPal offices where Hurley
worked with co-founders
Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
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23. Start Up Story:
The idea for YouTube
was supposedly derived
from frustration around
sharing video footage of
a dinner party attended
by Hurley and Chen.
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24. Starting an Online Business
Lesson:
Have you ever thought
about something that
would make your life
easier? Work on it. It may
also help millions of other
people too.
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26. Founder:
Reid Hoffman
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27. Starting Funds:
Personal Funds
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28. Where It All Began:
In a living room.
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29. Start Up Story:
Started with 5 members in 2002 and officially launched in
May 2003, LinkedIn now has a database of more than 175
million members from over 200 countries.
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30. Starting an Online
Business Lesson:
Businesses don't happen
overnight; they're often
launched only after years
of planning.
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32. Founder:
Pierre Omidyar
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33. Starting Funds:
Personal Funds
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34. Where It All Began:
In Pierre's own home.
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35. Start Up Story:
eBay, the first global auction
site, began as a personal site
to sell items. One of the first
items sold was a broken laser
pointer for $14.83.
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36. Starting an Online Business Lesson:
There's a market for everything,
even broken laser pointers.
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38. Founders:
Jack Nickell and Jacob Dehart
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39. Starting Funds:
$1000
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40. Where It All Began:
In a studio apartment
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41. Start Up Story:
Threadless began while
Jack and Jacob were
still living their 9-5
lives.
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42. Starting an Online
Business Lesson:
You don't need to start off
big - you can start your
online business
while still working your
day job.
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44. Founder:
James Lillis
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45. Starting Funds:
$6 to buy material.
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46. Where It All Began:
With a sewing machine
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47. Start Up Story:
Began selling at the markets,
but sales were slow. Fashion
bloggers picked up on Black
Milk products and the
company shifted to be an
online store only, despite
advice to the contrary.
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48. Starting an Online
Business Lesson:
Listen to your instincts.
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