Amazing internet success stories to inspire us all

When we kicked off many simply called it a fad, the internet is here to stay.

For those in the know it revolutionised the way we do spend the day and most can’t live without it.

The first gold rush of the web passed by making a mature market with vast opportunities for people to achieve an amazing amount of success, money and most importantly LIFESTYLE.

To give you an example of what can be achieved, here are good internet success stories.

YouTube was started by Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley in February 2005. They found an opportunity when they realized uploading and sharing videos online was not easy. When the first video was uploaded a few months later in April 2005, YouTube was not an immediate success. They had to go back to the drawing board and came up with various ways to make the videos more viral. It worked. By summer 2006, videos were being watched hundreds of millions of times. Then in October 2006, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.

Zappos.com was launched in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn as a place to buy shoes online. Nick was walking through the mall but couldn’t find a place that had the right shoe for him. So Nick decided to create Zappos. Nick got the help of another dotcom entrepreneur, Tony Hsieh who invested in the company. Since then Zappos has moved into other merchandise and has grown its revenues from “almost nothing” in 1999 to over $800 million in 2007. This year it is projected to generate sales of over $1 billion.

If you ever wanted to start an internet venture, NOW is the best time. With open source and less expensive technologies, it has become easier to launch a business on a shoestring budget but reach millions of people within just a few months.

To help share the costs you might find a top New Media agency to split the risks such as Netbods

Netbods seeks the next wave of Internet entrepreneurs looking to go online and will split the costs for an equity stake if your business plan stacks up!!

To see if your idea qualifies visit http://www.netbods.co.uk/web/introduction.asp and prepare for a Dragon's Den presentation of your business plan.

Weblogs, Inc. may not be a familiar name but many of their blogs are. Weblogs, Inc. was launched in September 2003 by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey. It encompassed over 90 blogs covering a multitude of topics. Blogs were young when this network was established .