6 posts and columns on business.com

Brighter’s Jake Winebaum Talks About Tooth-Loving Start-Up (Video)

in Commerce on June 9, 2011 at 3:16 pm PT

One area of medical care has gotten little attention online has been — wait for it — dental care. But before you click away from this story to avoid thoughts of root canals, it’s the well-funded premise behind the latest start-up called Brighter from longtime online exec Jake Winebaum.

Checking In With Business.com's Jake Winebaum–After the $345 Million Deal

in News on July 27, 2007 at 12:04 am PT

Was it only a week ago that we wrote a post about the sale prospects of Business.com and did a video interview with its CEO Jake Winebaum at its Santa Monica, Calif., offices? As it turned out–and I cannot say I was surprised–the deal was finally struck this past week for the highly targeted search-and-directory [...]

Kara Visits Business.com's Jake Winebaum

in News on July 23, 2007 at 4:25 am PT

I paid a visit to the Santa Monica, Calif., offices of Business.com recently to check in with its CEO, Jake Winebaum. Back in the day, I covered Winebaum closely, first during his stint as the go-to Internet guy at Disney and after he left there to strike out on his own with serial entrepreneur Sky [...]

Digital Daily's John Paczkowski Washes His Lovely Locks

in News on June 22, 2007 at 3:46 pm PT

Yesterday, it was his talented eyebrows, and today, John Paczkowski’s very lustrous hair gets a workout in his Digital Daily video. Using Selsun Blue, John washes away all pretense that Lonelygirl15 is anything more than a marketing shill with a recent deal with Neutrogena. Here is a direct link to today’s video, which is also [...]

LonelyStealthMarketer15

in News on June 22, 2007 at 12:07 pm PT

Here's Another Domain You Might Buy: www.MainstreamMedia Desperation.com

in News on June 22, 2007 at 4:20 am PT

When Santa Monica, Calif.-based incubator eCompanies paid $7.5 million in 1999 for the rights to the domain name business.com–nearly twice what Compaq paid the year prior to buy altavista.com, the name of its search engine–conventional wisdom was that the company’s founders were out of their minds. “It is going to be the bargain of the [...]