Jack Ma Quotes

Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.

When you start working as an Internet entrepreneur, the world is moving at a million miles an hour and is changing rapidly.

I'll be amazed in my lifetime if my business gets to being 5 per cent online.

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

The Internet represented a really important tool that would be used by every business out there to some extent. But for the vast majority of companies to say, 'We're an Internet company,' is a little bit like saying, 'We're a fax company because we have a fax machine.'

I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth is, as soon as a startup has any kind of success whatsoever, it will face big company problems.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

I've been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That's 12 years of being in the tornado, and it's pretty exhausting. I'll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I've scratched that itch very well.

The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

I had learnt from my years of being in the services business, like networking and closely watching the early days of the Internet, that scale leads to many possibilities.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

The Chinese market is very different. One of the things that I believe is that the biggest, hottest tech trend in China right now is O2O, or online-to-offline.

Individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology.

When it comes to brands and having the opportunity to be an entrepreneur, social media has really become a great outlet for people to become their own boss.

Any small business that's predicated on technological innovation and is differentiated and superior can expand globally very effectively using the Internet as a vehicle for promotion.

I'm an accidental business person. I just love the medium. I love the Internet.

It's gotten more open and easy to create a business on the Internet. That's a really awesome thing for entrepreneurs and for the world.

We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.

I believe that IT is the way forward. Every other industry utilises IT, and I feel that fashion needs to use it more extensively to move forward.