- AllBusiness.com
AllBusiness.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Dun & Bradstreet , providesbusiness information and resources forsmall business es, those companies with fewer than 500 employees. The company also conducts research to measure the health and direction of the small business sector.
* [http://www.allbusiness.com/barometer Small Business Barometer] [cite web
url=http://www.iiaba.net/IAMag/NewsViews/020807.html
last=Payne
first=Michelle
title=The State of the (Business) Union
date=2006-02-08 ]
* [http://www.allbusiness.com/bestplaces Best Places for Women Entrepreneurs] [cite web
url=http://www.raleighing.com/2006/11/triangle_ranks_.html
last=Raleighing
title=Triangle Ranks #1 for Women Entrepreneurs
date=2006-11-28 ]History
AllBusiness was founded in 1999 by San Francisco lawyer Richard Harroch, and within a year grew to more than 100 employees. During this time, San Francisco entrepreneur Keith Belling served as president, joined later by Teymour Boutros-Ghali (a nephew of former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali) as CEO. [cite web
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E0DB153FF931A35751C0A9669C8B63
last=New York Times
title= COMPANY NEWS; NBC INTERNET AGREES TO BUY ALLBUSINESS.COM
date=2000-02-02 ] It was acquired by NBCi, the Internet venture ofNBC , a subsidiary ofGeneral Electric , in March 2000 for $225 million USD. [cite web
url=http://news.com.com/2100-1017-236384.html
last=Sandoval
first=Greg
title=NBCi agrees to acquire AllBusiness.com
date=2000-02-01 ] At the time, it was one of the largest purchases of a dot-com company. NBCi merged AllBusiness with an independent Internet company, BigVine.com, in November 2000 and the combined entity assumed the name AllBusiness. [cite web
url=http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/04/15/story5.html
first=San Francisco Business Times
title=Small biz site puts assets up for sale
date=2006-03-15 ] The combined AllBusiness entity remained intact through April 2002 until being broken up and sold to various buyers, including Harroch, who bought back the original core assets of AllBusiness at that time. [cite web
url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2004/11/15/story8.html
last=Brown
first=Steven E.F.
title=Biz portal AllBusiness.com wakes from deep sleep
date=2004-11-12 ]AllBusiness is one of the few companies that survived the early Internet frenzy, the burst of the
dot-com bubble and a slow recovery of the Internet publishing industry. [cite web
url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2005/08/01/story7.html
last=Sanders
first=Adrienne
title=Business portal, back from the dead, hires online media veteran
date=2004-07-29 ] AllBusiness raised $10 million USD in a series B round of venture capital funding in July 2004 [cite web
url=http://www.allbusiness.com/8141-1.html
title=AllBusiness.com Announces $10 Million Venture Financing
date=2006-03-15 ] (drawing only $5 million) and $12.4 million USD in a series C round of funding in February 2006. [cite web
url=http://www.adweek.com/aw/iq_interactive/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002197251
last=Morrissey
first=Brian
title=AllBusiness.com Raises $12 Mil. in Funding
date=2006-03-15 ]In December 2007,
Dun & Bradstreet acquired AllBusiness for $55 million USD [cite web
url=http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-allbusinesscom-acquired-by-dun-bradstreet-for-about-55-million/
last=Kramer
first=Staci D.
title=AllBusiness.com Acquired By Dun & Bradstreet For $55 Million
date=2007-12-04 ] . Today AllBusiness.com is headed by CEO Kathy Yates with nearly 40 employees and offers more than five million pieces of business content including articles, periodicals, videos, blogs and legal forms and agreements.External links
* [http://www.allbusiness.com AllBusiness.com]
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