10 Successful Entrepreneurs

and Online Businesses

By Alexa Ruano

Tatango.com
Created by Derek Johnson who is the CEO of group SMS
startup, Tatango, and social media agency, Derek Media
Tatango provides groups a free, easy and fast way to
communicate with group members via SMS
Derek has raised half a million dollars in investments for
the company from private investors.
Tatango.com has delivered over 50 million messages
since its launch, servicing all types of groups such as
college organizations, churches, athletic teams, political
campaigns and non-profit groups.

DoAsOne.com

by Eric Stotz

He heads a non-profit, DoAsOne.com, aimed at raising the world's awareness of the

importance of optimal healthy breathing
Their Method: share techniques for daily, optimal breathing and enable global,
synchronous breathing through DoAsOne.com.
The website also contains a Universal Breathing room, which you can enter and
synchronize your breathing with about 1 billion people.
There are multiple rooms in which you can enter: The Universal Breathing Room (UBR),
Universal Laughter Room (ULR), Universal Om Room (UOR)
His philanthropic activities include producing several high-profile annual charity events
for beneficiaries including Pay-it-Forward Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, Beating
the Odds Foundation and Childrens Hospital Orange County to name a few. -

IdeaBuyer.com
Created by Eric Corl
IdeaBuyer.com is an online marketplace for intellectual property.
Goal: to aggregate all of the stagnant intellectual property in the United States among
Universities, Corporations, and independent inventors, and make it available to
entrepreneurs, investors, and retailers through licensing or purchase agreements.
The site immediately took off as a resource for inventors looking for partners in getting
their products to market as well.
Idea Buyer now holds equity stakes in several intellectual property based businesses.
The company has so far been credited with over 30 licensing and purchase agreements
and is projecting over 1000 by 2009.

YoYoNation.com
Patrick Cuarteros the co-founder and CEO of YoYoNation.com, the worlds number one
specialty online retail store, online yo-yo community, and vehicle for all things yo-yo
related.
The seriously fun enthusiast website has won awards and has been featured in many
media outlets such as National Public Radio (NPR), NBCs The Today Show,
Entrepreneur Magazine, PC Magazine, and The New York Post.
Hes won top spots in multiple state, regional, national, and world competitions and has
toured across the country demonstrating the art of the yo-yo.
Before pursuing YoYoNation.com full-time, Patrick was an Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynchs Global
Service Quality Group and an e-marketing specialist at Dun & Bradstreet Corporation.

Etsy
created by Rob Kalin, Jared Tarbell, Chris Maguire, Haim
Schoppik
Net worth is just below $300 million.
online marketplace for small sellers of handmade goods
That new funding values Etsy at $688 million, according
to Justin Byers at VC Experts; In its last round of
funding, $20 million

Amazon
Created by Jeff Bezos an American entrepreneur and
investor
He is a technology entrepreneur who has played a role
in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of
Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of
a wide variety of products.
Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World
Wide Web and a model for Internet sales.
US$59.3 billion (December 2015)

eBay
Created by Pierre Omidyar, a French-born IranianAmerican entrepreneur and philanthropist.
He is the founder of the eBay auction site, and served
as Chairman from 1998 to 2015.
His net worth is at $8.5

Craigslist
Created by Craig Newmark, an American Internet
entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the
San Francisco-based international website Craigslist.
Craigslist is a classified advertisements website with
sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale,
items wanted, services, community, gigs, rsums, and
discussion forums.
net worth as of 2010 was around $400 million

Weebly
Created by Chris Fanini, Dan Veltri, David Rusenko
Weebly is a web-hosting service featuring a drag-anddrop website builder. As of August 2012, Weebly hosts
over 20 million sites with a monthly rate of over 1
million unique visitors.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco
weebly.com is worth $847,000,000

Unigo.com
Created by Jordan Goldman
Unigo is an online business matching students with
colleges, scholarships, internships, student loans,
majors and careers.
According to USA Today, millions of students use Unigo
to assist in their college search.
With over $500 million in assets under management