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    Ebay was started by Pierre Odiyar who built a site to sell his broken laser pointer. It grew as more people used the site to sell items. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos and originally sold books online. Wilson was founded by Thomas E. Wilson to make high quality sports equipment starting with tennis rackets made of violin strings. Facebook was originally created by Harvard students as a social networking site for their school. PayPal was developed to facilitate online money transfers between individuals. Google grew out of a research project at Stanford by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Netflix began as a DVD rental service to avoid having to purchase DVDs. Hulu was created by major studios including Fox to allow next-day streaming

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    Ebay was started by Pierre Odiyar who built a site to sell his broken laser pointer. It grew as more people used the site to sell items. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos and originally sold books online. Wilson was founded by Thomas E. Wilson to make high quality sports equipment starting with tennis rackets made of violin strings. Facebook was originally created by Harvard students as a social networking site for their school. PayPal was developed to facilitate online money transfers between individuals. Google grew out of a research project at Stanford by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Netflix began as a DVD rental service to avoid having to purchase DVDs. Hulu was created by major studios including Fox to allow next-day streaming

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    10 Successful Online Businesses

    By: Gustavo Higareda

    Ebay
    Business makes Yearly: $8,590,000,000
    Who started the business: Pierre Odiyar
    an Iranian-American computer
    programmer.
    How and Why did the business start: Odiyar built a site to sell his broken laser
    point. It was sold for $14.83 to a broken laser point collector. He later continued to use
    his site to help his fiance trade Ped candy dispensers. Suddenly he started getting
    more website visitors which caused him to expand his site. This lead to hiring
    employees.

    Amazon
    Business makes Yearly:
    $107,000,000,000
    Who started the business: Jeff Bezo is an
    American technology Entrepreneur.
    How and Why did the business start: Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved
    to Seattle. It was firstly influenced off the rising of online businesses. He quit his job
    to produce books and be sold on online. He began to work on a business plan for
    what would eventually become Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company
    as "Cadabra" on July 5, 1994. Bezos changed the name to Amazon a year later
    after a lawyer misheard its original name as "cadaver".

    Wilson
    Business makes Yearly: $930,000,000
    Who started the business:Thomas E.Wilson
    A worker who worked his way up the ranks.
    How and Why did the business start: The company was started with the
    mission of making high quality equipment and also making sporting supplies to
    help the athlete play at his top performance. It firstly started off by making tennis
    rackets out of violin strings. Eventually expanding itself to making baseball shoes
    and etc.

    Facebook
    Business makes Yearly: $17,930,000,000
    Who started the business: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
    McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes
    How and Why did the business start: It was started by Harvard students
    wanting to play the hot or not game. Then it gradually became popular.

    Paypal
    Business makes Yearly: $9,248,000,000
    Who started the business: Peter Thiel, Yu
    Pan, Luke Nosek, Elon Musk, Ken Howery,
    Max Levchin

    How and Why did the business start: PayPal was established in December
    1998 as Cofinity, a company that developed security software for handheld
    devices founded by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek and Ken Howery,
    PayPal was developed and launched as a money transfer service at Cofinity in
    1999, funded by John Malloy from BlueRun Ventures.

    Google
    Business makes Yearly:$74,980,000,000
    Who started the business: Larry Page
    and Sergey Bin

    How and Why did the business start: Google was started a research project of
    stanford students. Then people wanted in with different professions and helped
    make it to what it is today.

    Netflix
    Business makes Yearly: $6,800,000,000
    Who started the business: Reed Hastings,
    Marc Randolph
    How and Why did the business start: Netflix was originally a single rental service
    because they did not want to have to buy dvds so they could stream online.

    Hulu
    Business makes Yearly: $1,000,000,000
    Who started the business: Beth Comstock,
    Jason Kilar

    How and Why did the business start: Hulu was made by
    fox for people to watch the airing of a fox show the next day.

    Groupon
    Business makes Yearly: $3,100,000,000
    Who started the business: Eric Lefkofsky,
    Brad Keywell, Andrew Mason
    How and Why did the business start:The idea that would eventually become
    Groupon was born out of founder Andrew Mason's frustration trying to cancel a
    cell phone contract in 2006. Mason thought that there must be some way to
    leverage large number of people's collective bargaining power. In 2007 Mason
    launched The Point, a web platform based on the "tipping point" principle that
    would utilize social media to get people together to accomplish a goal. The Point
    was intended to organize people around some sort of cause or goal. It gained
    only modest traction in Chicago, until a group of users decided their cause
    would be saving money. They wanted to round up people to buy the same
    product in order to receive a group discount. Founder Eric Lefkofsky wanted the
    company to pivot in order to focus entirely on group buying. Born from The
    Point, Groupon was launched in November 2008.

    Youtube
    Business makes Yearly:
    $4,980,000,000
    Who started the business: Jerry Yang,
    David Filo
    How and Why did the business start: YouTube began when PayPal employees
    started to create a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and
    view content. The Internet domain name www.youtube.com was activated on
    Monday, February 14, 2005 at 9:13PM.

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