It was her next job, however, that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country, when she borrowed $1,000 from her boyfriend and quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City.

Over the next twenty-five years, she’d parlay that $1,000 loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate business named The Corcoran Group. She sold the business in 2001 for seventy million dollars.

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In 1996 Forbes entered the new media arena with the launch of Forbes.com, which now gets more than 10 million unique monthly visitors.

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John is most well-known for his "Million Dollar Day" when he did the unthinkable and produced over $1,000,000 in sales in less than 24 hours for a new product; and he did it without spending one penny on advertising.

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Marc is most noteworthy in the domain name industry as he sold Business.com in 1999 for the record-breaking price of $7.5 Million. He coined the term "Domain Names are Internet Real Estate" when he bought Business.com for $150,000 in 1995.

Mr. Ostrofsky is a technology and Internet evangelist and researcher in various Internet & telecom sectors. Marc created, built and sold two publishing and trade show firms (Information Publishing Corporation and Multimedia Publishing Corporation).

During the 1970's, he was speechwriter for Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. During the 1980's he become well known for an acting career that included an appearance as an economics teacher in the motion picture "Ferris Beuller's Day Off". He also had his own television game show during the 1990's, Win Ben Stein's Money.

Throughout his career, Sanchez has reported on major events across the United States and around the world, including on-the-scene coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Sanchez has also reported in war zones in Nicaragua, the invasion of Grenada and the fall of the Jean-Claude Duvalier regime in Haiti. Additionally, Sanchez has reported live from Havana, Cuba, numerous times. In 2006, Sanchez contributed to the network’s comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina that won a George Foster Peabody Award.

Sanchez has also interviewed several prominent newsmakers, including Laura Bush, Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Manuel Noriega behind bars, among others.

Before joining CNN, Sanchez was an anchor for WTVJ/Channel 6 and an interim anchor for WBZL/Channel 39 in Miami. Prior to his tenure with the NBC affiliate, he worked for two years as a correspondent and anchor for MSNBC. Sanchez joined MSNBC in 2001 as a correspondent and also delivered breaking news for CNBC and filed radio updates for NBC National radio.

He also briefly worked as an anchor at KHOU-TV in Houston. Sanchez started his career as a television journalist at WSVN-TV Miami in 1982. In Miami, he became the first person to both anchor a television news program and host a talk show on Spanish-language radio, El Show de Rick Sanchez.

Sanchez's professional honors include an Emmy Award and an American Medical Association "Distinguished Journalist Award." Sanchez studied journalism at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and played football at Moorhead State University.

Today, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM customers can send a wide variety of floral products and other thoughtful gifts around the block or around the world by clicking a mouse on a PC.

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He serves on the Board of Directors of Earthlink, Inc., La Quinta Corporation, Kayak.com, and is a special venture partner with General Catalyst Partners.

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John is most well-known for his "Million Dollar Day" when he did the unthinkable and produced over $1,000,000 in sales in less than 24 hours for a new product; and he did it without spending one penny on advertising.

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Mr. Miller's duties also include overseeing the Deal Jam Sales Group. Andrew is currently a shareholder in Diamond.com, Telephone.com Inc, and via Deal Jam: Altura International Inc., Carbs.com LLC, Relationship.com/Love Tactics LLC, and Safety.com LLC.

Mike "Zappy" Zapolin is Co-Founder of Music.com . He is also the co-founder and CEO of Internet Real Estate Group LLC.

"Zappy" is the creator of an elective course on e-Business at Harvard Business School, and he has spoken at Inc. Magazine's CEO Symposium and The Economist Branding Conference in Shanghai . He is responsible for such Internet brands as Beer.com, Computer.com, Debt.com, Creditcards.com, Diamond.com, Software.com, Sweepstakes.com, Phone.com, Podcast.com, and Chocolate.com .

Zapolin fashioned direct-response campaigns for clients such as Time Warner, Diana Ross and VH1. With co-authored Ask the Kabala in 2006.

In a 2007 cover story in Business 2.0 magazine, Kevin Ham is referred to as "The Man Who Owns the Internet." The same year, Kevin was proclaimed "Domainer of the Year" by industry association T.R.A.F.F.I.C. He most recently received the "Industry Achievement Award" at the DomainFest 2008 Conference in recognition of his leadership in the monetization of premium domain names and portfolios.

FUN FACT - He air-types domain names to check if they are the kind that people would type directly into his Web browser.