Brock Pierce Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

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

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.

The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways.

When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

The Internet is a giant 'lab experiment' for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity and fluidity will survive and win.

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 have many accommodation owners - people who own small hotels, villas and bungalows - and the digital economy has opened up a world of possibility for these business owners. Now, they can sell to and communicate with people around the world, and where Booking.com comes in is to help these accommodation owners adapt to the digital world.

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.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

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

Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

Whether people want to do business or sell things online, reach new people and be found, showcase their achievements, or communicate with their friends or family, Weebly is the best way for them to create a high-quality site that meets their goals.

In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind.

In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.