Do you need an office for a startup? / Where did 14 leading Internet services begin?
Today I decided to show everyone where 14 of my favorite leading Internet services were born. I just want to show you that you do not need a beautiful office and all that to start a business. A large number of people began with a student room and a bedroom with a simple laptop in hand.
Some of the images that you see here are a little doubtful, but remember, 11 years ago we didn’t have the clever digital cameras that we have today.
So:
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Founder: Mark Zuckenberg (Mark Zuckerberg)
Base: in his student room at Harvard.
Website: http://facebook.com
Facebook owes its birth to Mark's passion for programming.
He appeared in the spotlight when he turned down an offer from Yahoo for $ 1 million. Later, he still agreed to the 240 millionth offer, giving Microsoft a 1.6% piece on Facebook, the price of which rose to 15 billion dollars.
Founders: Larry Page (Larry Page) and Sergey Brin (Sergey Brin)
Ground of base: garage
Website: http://google.com
At first, Lari and Sergey called their startup BackRub (back massage?), But soon decided that the search engine BackRub should change its name. After a small brainstorming session, they settled on Google, based on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number 1 with 100 zeros after. The use of this term reflects their mission to put in order an infinite amount of information on the web.
Founder: Andrew Gower (Andrew Gower)
Place of foundation: in the bedroom of his parents in a house in Nottingham (Nottingham)
Website: http://runescape.com
He was interested in programming for games since childhood. He liked games where there are dungeons. At first he started doing RunEscape as a hobby, but later he monetized his site and became a successful business investor.
Founders: John Wichy (John Vechey) with Brien Fiete and Jason Kapalka
Location: their office
Website: http://popcap.com
John Wichy, along with Brian and Jason, founded PopCap Games in 2000. Prior to that, they worked on online gaming sites. Their first gaming product was Bejeweled, which became a hit and won a lot of awards.
Founders: Jack Nickell with Jacob Dehart
Place of establishment: studio apartment
Website: http://threadless.com
Jack Nickel, along with Jacob Descartes (both expelled from college), began to create Threadless while they were still working at the main job. Both partners made a modest $ 500 as their initial investment. Now the annual income of the company exceeds 50 million dollars.
Founder: Sean Belnick
Place of foundation: his bedroom
Website: http://bizchair.com
He started with $ 500 and a list of 50 products. The company now employs 75 people and sells more than 25,000 products online. He sells office and school supplies, home supplies and medical devices in his online store. Microsoft, Google and American Idol are among its most significant customers.
Founder: Kevin Rose (Kevin Rose)
Place of foundation: his apartment
Website: http://digg.com
David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site "Diggnatio", but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose Digg because users can dig up stories, unlike those on the front page of news media. The site was named “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain “dig.com” was already registered with the Disney Internet Group.
Founder: Markus Frind (Markus Frind)
Place of establishment: his office
Website: http://plentyoffish.com
Back in 2001, after his birthday, someone in the office showed him an online dating service. He went back to his place and looked at the udate.com and kiss.com sites. He was sad and he wanted to talk to people. He was really annoyed when he discovered that you have to pay for everything, he closed everything and told the girl who showed him the sites that he could do better and free, and he took and registered PlentyOfFish.com
Founders: Rishi Kacker and Matt Pauker
Place of establishment: basement office in a technical building
Website: http://voltage.com
Rishi and Mat worked on technology as part of a summer research team, visiting Stanford. They took part in the competition with their business plan and won. With the help of some seasonal executives, they created a successful security software business with more than 130 large customers and 75 employees. “It's still amazing for me,” says Puker.
Founder: Chad Hurley (Chad Hurley)
Place of foundation: in his office
Website: http://youtube.com
After the fateful dinner, where Harley and Chen wanted to have an easier way to share their videos, they immediately went to work in the office to create an answer. “In February, we started developing the service,” said Harley. "In May we already had the first public version. And in December we officially launched Youtube. Since then, we process more than three million videos per day."
Founder: Andrew Michael (Andrew Michael)
Place of foundation: his room
Website: http://fasthost.com
He became a multi-millionaire after he sold his online business, which he started when he was still a teenager. He began work on Fasthost at 17. After the sale, the value of Mr. Michael soared 47 million pounds.
Founder: Ashley Qualls (Ashley Qualls)
Place of foundation: in her kitchen office
Website: http://whateverlife.com
She started her business in 2004 at the age of 14 with an eight-dollar domain name and an old computer. He did not know that he was starting his business just in time - she thought that he was creating a more simple way to share his cool MySpace wallpaper with her friends.
Founder: Pierre Omidyar (Pierre Omidyar)
Place of establishment: Pierre’s house
Website: http://ebay.com
Not many sites on the Internet can boast such success as eBay. EBay's first name was Echo Bay Technology. When the company tried to register the domain name echobay.com, it was discovered that it was already taken. Then they reduced to ebay.com and the site earned.
Place of foundation: his room
Website: http://linkedin.com
LinkedIn was officially founded in 2003. The site was launched on May 5 (gently referred to by employees as Cinco de LinkedIn) when the 5 founders invited about 350 of their most important contacts. At the end of the first month of its existence, LinkedIn already had about 4,500 registered users. The first “real” office was on Shoreline Road in Mountain View.
I hope this list inspired you and clearly showed that you can start your startup anywhere!
Original on my blog .
Some of the images that you see here are a little doubtful, but remember, 11 years ago we didn’t have the clever digital cameras that we have today.
So:
')
1) Facebook
Founder: Mark Zuckenberg (Mark Zuckerberg)
Base: in his student room at Harvard.
Website: http://facebook.com
Facebook owes its birth to Mark's passion for programming.
He appeared in the spotlight when he turned down an offer from Yahoo for $ 1 million. Later, he still agreed to the 240 millionth offer, giving Microsoft a 1.6% piece on Facebook, the price of which rose to 15 billion dollars.
2) google
Founders: Larry Page (Larry Page) and Sergey Brin (Sergey Brin)
Ground of base: garage
Website: http://google.com
At first, Lari and Sergey called their startup BackRub (back massage?), But soon decided that the search engine BackRub should change its name. After a small brainstorming session, they settled on Google, based on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number 1 with 100 zeros after. The use of this term reflects their mission to put in order an infinite amount of information on the web.
3) Runescape
Founder: Andrew Gower (Andrew Gower)
Place of foundation: in the bedroom of his parents in a house in Nottingham (Nottingham)
Website: http://runescape.com
He was interested in programming for games since childhood. He liked games where there are dungeons. At first he started doing RunEscape as a hobby, but later he monetized his site and became a successful business investor.
4) PopCan Games
Founders: John Wichy (John Vechey) with Brien Fiete and Jason Kapalka
Location: their office
Website: http://popcap.com
John Wichy, along with Brian and Jason, founded PopCap Games in 2000. Prior to that, they worked on online gaming sites. Their first gaming product was Bejeweled, which became a hit and won a lot of awards.
5) Threadless
Founders: Jack Nickell with Jacob Dehart
Place of establishment: studio apartment
Website: http://threadless.com
Jack Nickel, along with Jacob Descartes (both expelled from college), began to create Threadless while they were still working at the main job. Both partners made a modest $ 500 as their initial investment. Now the annual income of the company exceeds 50 million dollars.
6) Biz Chair
Founder: Sean Belnick
Place of foundation: his bedroom
Website: http://bizchair.com
He started with $ 500 and a list of 50 products. The company now employs 75 people and sells more than 25,000 products online. He sells office and school supplies, home supplies and medical devices in his online store. Microsoft, Google and American Idol are among its most significant customers.
7) Digg
Founder: Kevin Rose (Kevin Rose)
Place of foundation: his apartment
Website: http://digg.com
David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site "Diggnatio", but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose Digg because users can dig up stories, unlike those on the front page of news media. The site was named “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain “dig.com” was already registered with the Disney Internet Group.
8) PlentyOfFish
Founder: Markus Frind (Markus Frind)
Place of establishment: his office
Website: http://plentyoffish.com
Back in 2001, after his birthday, someone in the office showed him an online dating service. He went back to his place and looked at the udate.com and kiss.com sites. He was sad and he wanted to talk to people. He was really annoyed when he discovered that you have to pay for everything, he closed everything and told the girl who showed him the sites that he could do better and free, and he took and registered PlentyOfFish.com
9) Voltage
Founders: Rishi Kacker and Matt Pauker
Place of establishment: basement office in a technical building
Website: http://voltage.com
Rishi and Mat worked on technology as part of a summer research team, visiting Stanford. They took part in the competition with their business plan and won. With the help of some seasonal executives, they created a successful security software business with more than 130 large customers and 75 employees. “It's still amazing for me,” says Puker.
10) Youtube
Founder: Chad Hurley (Chad Hurley)
Place of foundation: in his office
Website: http://youtube.com
After the fateful dinner, where Harley and Chen wanted to have an easier way to share their videos, they immediately went to work in the office to create an answer. “In February, we started developing the service,” said Harley. "In May we already had the first public version. And in December we officially launched Youtube. Since then, we process more than three million videos per day."
11) FastHost
Founder: Andrew Michael (Andrew Michael)
Place of foundation: his room
Website: http://fasthost.com
He became a multi-millionaire after he sold his online business, which he started when he was still a teenager. He began work on Fasthost at 17. After the sale, the value of Mr. Michael soared 47 million pounds.
12) WhatEverLife
Founder: Ashley Qualls (Ashley Qualls)
Place of foundation: in her kitchen office
Website: http://whateverlife.com
She started her business in 2004 at the age of 14 with an eight-dollar domain name and an old computer. He did not know that he was starting his business just in time - she thought that he was creating a more simple way to share his cool MySpace wallpaper with her friends.
13) eBay
Founder: Pierre Omidyar (Pierre Omidyar)
Place of establishment: Pierre’s house
Website: http://ebay.com
Not many sites on the Internet can boast such success as eBay. EBay's first name was Echo Bay Technology. When the company tried to register the domain name echobay.com, it was discovered that it was already taken. Then they reduced to ebay.com and the site earned.
14) LinkedIn
Founder:
Reid HoffmanPlace of foundation: his room
Website: http://linkedin.com
LinkedIn was officially founded in 2003. The site was launched on May 5 (gently referred to by employees as Cinco de LinkedIn) when the 5 founders invited about 350 of their most important contacts. At the end of the first month of its existence, LinkedIn already had about 4,500 registered users. The first “real” office was on Shoreline Road in Mountain View.
I hope this list inspired you and clearly showed that you can start your startup anywhere!
Original on my blog .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/67328/
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