To Be Or Not To Be Online: The Tale Of The Big Bad Web And The Three Little Businesses

Working in the advertising industry, I have listened to some vulgar assertions made by people about this topic. I just want to make sure that most people are not sold, fraud and greed are not cheated, but still some people are still confused. Most of the customers we are cooperating with are services related companies that have existed for generations. These people are usually very strong, very proud and adhere to their old ways. Most of these owners have long-standing work in the community, can recommend new customers to them, and occasionally have a loyal customer base that can even become a symbolic customer of a specific group of communities .

In 1997, I started a company called BizLand.com with my own seed money. Our goal is to help companies become online. There are three products: web hosting, e-commerce plug-in tool, shopping cart. After raising $ 20 million venture capital and employing about 100 employees, we initially grew up as a small consulting company. As incomes decrease and employees and business expenses can not be paid, we face a tough choice of business restructuring or business closure. As I believe that our products and services have markets, I am encouraged to find ways to save the business, not shut down the store. By the end of 2001 we were able to shrink the team to 14 employees and convert about 2% of the customers into a subscription based model. It broke up in 2002 and changed its name to Endurance International Group in 2003.

In 2002, I started a small network service business with two close friends, Dee and Cameron. We call this a working group. As you have these abbreviations - the name was shortened to TWG later. Among us, we can design, code and sell to meet the basic requirements of any startup web service business. Our world headquarters is in the back room of my apartment, directly at the Chinese seafood restaurant of Spadina Ave. We do not know what our small business will do, we do not have much time to worry about it. We are very fighting, we have been working for a long time, fortunately, we did a lot of good things.

Today, most companies can not survive without using information systems. They send internal e-mails, sell through the web, manage e-commerce sites, and store and track data online. There is no doubt that companies from all over the world, from large companies to small-scale home businesses, depend heavily on information systems in the harsh and highly competitive business world. People who have the best and latest technology are prosperous people and those trapped in the past are forgotten.