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An Internet entrepreneur is an entrepreneur that applies innovation to create new businesses on the Internet. ^[1]

Internet entrepreneurs are part of the more general category of digital entrepreneurs. Digital Entrepreneurship takes advantage of computing in general to innovate and create new ventures.

Famous Internet Entrepreneurs

• Bill Gates and Paul Allen (passed down to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie from Bill Gates) - Microsoft - MSN
• Pierre Omidyar and John Donahoe - eBay
• Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com
• Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban - Broadcast.com
• Craig Newmark - Craigslist
• Joshua Schachter - del.icio.us
• Kevin Rose - Digg
• Bob Parsons - Go Daddy
• Sky Dayton - EarthLink
• Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
• Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield -Flickr
• Sergey Brin & Larry Page - Google
• Jason Calacanis - Mahalo.com
• Tom and Chris DeWolfe - Myspace
• Shawn Fanning - Napster
• Reed Hastings - Netflix
• James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen - Netscape
• Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Luke Nosek - Paypal
• Steffan Sondermark Fallesen - Servage Hosting

• Michael Arrington - TechCrunch
• Sam Morgan (entrepreneur) - TradeMe
• Evan Williams - Twitter
• Jimmy Wales- Wikipedia
• Jerry Yang and David Filo - Yahoo
• Chad Hurley, Steve Chen (YouTube) and Jawed Karim - YouTube
• Milun Tesovic - Metrolyrics.com

See also

• Entrepreneur

References

1. ^ "On Being an Internet Entrepreneur". http://radoff.com/blog/2009/11/28/on-being-an-internet-entrepreneur/. Retrieved 2009-11-30.  

Further reading

• Livingston, Jessica, Founders at work: stories of startups' early days, Berkeley, CA : Apress ; New York : Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, 2007. ISBN 9781590597149