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Revision as of 17:08, 17 March 2007 by 70.194.122.138 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Marc Ostrofsky is a Houston, Texas based serial entrepreneur. Called a "Technology Wildcatter" by the The Houston Business Journal, his uses information, knowledge and marketing to create a host of successful ventures ranging from Magazine Publishing and Trade Shows to internet firms, web sites and even backing other web based ventures using his Venture Capital Firm.
He is the originator and co-founder of Internet REIT, Inc./iREIT.com an internet firm backed by a handful of high profile Venture Capitalists Firms and wealthy private investors including Starbucks Founder and Chairman, Howard Schultz and Texas Billionaire, H. Ross Perot among others.
Internet REIT (iREIT) is a next-generation Internet media company that acquires, develops and makes money from high-quality domain names and web properties. iREIT's domain portfolio includes such premier properties as the Netster.com portal, Bands.com, CreditReports.com, Shows.com, eBuy.com, Recipe.com, GoCarts.com, VietnamWar.com, OfficeSupply.com, and many others. A leading supplier of high-value Internet traffic to advertisers, iREIT receives more than 40 million visitors per month through its growing network of media properties.
Marc is most noteworthy in the internet market for his record sale of Business.com in 1999 for $7.5 million to eCompanies which landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most expensive domain name ever sold. He coined the term "Domain Names are the Real Estate of the Internet" when he bought Business.com for $150,000 in the mid 90's which, at that time, was the most money ever paid for a domain name at that time. The press called him "crazy for spending $150K on domain name". They went on to say "this guy must have to much money to burn". The ROI proves it wasn't so stupid after all. He sites "one mans trash..."
Mr. Ostrofsky is a technology & Internet evangelist as well as a technology researcher in various Internet sectors. His upcoming book, Get Rich Click, is scheduled for release in September of 2007 as well as a TV Game show pilot he is currently working on with the same name.
Prior to these ventures, Ostrofsky founded and sold five "high tech" Internet and telecommunications magazines and 10+ technology trade shows and conventions that were all later sold to Advanstar publishing for $8,000,000. He then created and sold Multimedia Publishing Corporation another firm he founded made up of magazines, trade shows and web sites to Primedia (NYSE: PRM)for $35,000,000. He was one of the early pioneers and founders of the Voice Mail/Voice Processing market, the Private Pay Phone Market, the Operator Services market as well as the primary founder of the Prepaid Telephone Card market in the United States after extensive research on the subject of prepaid telecom using smart cards throughout Europe.
He also founded www.idNames.com an international domain name registration service that was sold to Network Solutions and is now a $30+ million division of Verisign.
He is an owner, investor and Board Member of www.Blinds.com, the largest provider of Blinds and window coverings on the internet - grossing a $50 million+ annually. He is an investor and owner of CuffLinks.com, the largest web site in the world selling Men's and Women's CuffLinks. He also owns operating web sites www.DudeRanches.com and www.SummerCamps.com which is the #1 site for helping parents find just the right Summer Camp for their children.
He also owns MutualFunds.com, Bachelor.com, HeartDisease.com, BeautyProducts.com, Proof.com, eTickets.com, Consulting.com, www.WatchExchange.com, MortgageCompanies.com, InsuranceCompanies.com, Cars.info and over 300 other domain names & web sites.
He is a professional photographer and owns www.Photographer.com, iPhotos.com, PhotoWorkshops.com and PhotoTrips.com. He is currently developing his latest venture, www.FotoFonts.com and a handful of other domain names that will become web sites.
His television interviews include: The Today Show, ABC's 20/20, Wall Street Journal Report, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, as well as others. Newspaper and wire service media include The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA Today and Newsweek magazine among others.
He is a professional speaker domestically and internationally on Entrepreneurship, How to build a business, How to sell a business and his current "hot topic" has the same name as his book and proposed TV game show titled - "Get Rich Click" - on how to make money and get rich using the internet.
He is a member of the NSA-National Speakers Association and was the initial creator of the ICA - Internet Commerce Association.
While he loves travel and fashion photography along with his other passion of playing golf. Mr. Ostrofsky is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin in the field of Marketing and has three teenage daughters. He makes his home in Houston, Texas although his extensive travel and speaking schedule keeps him on the road a lot of the time.
For more information, watch for www.GetRichClick.com coming soon.
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