3 posts and columns on eCompanies

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 [...]

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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 [...]