{"id":58,"date":"2008-07-27T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T03:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2008-08-25T17:21:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T23:21:03","slug":"internet-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/money-making-ideas\/internet-entrepreneur.html","title":{"rendered":"Nine Million People in the United States are Millionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a>, some of the nine million people feel poor.\u00a0 They are the &#8220;middle class&#8221; millionaires.\u00a0 Laurel Touby, a <strong>successful\u00a0internet entrepreneur<\/strong>, who recently sold her website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\">www.mediabistro.com<\/a>\u00a0for $23 million could be one of them. She tells CNBC that she is not that rich.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/laurel_touby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64\" title=\"laurel_touby\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/laurel_touby.jpg\" alt=\"Laurel Touby\" width=\"158\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel Touby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Money Making Idea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She wanted to build a website\u00a0to include\u00a0a community for the media where there were job listings, bulletin boards, classes,\u00a0 and a freelance marketplace.\u00a0 She raised money for her website by hosting parties where she invited editors, writers, and other content creators. \u00a0Her parties went on and on and her contacts grew to thousands.\u00a0Now, her\u00a0website is\u00a0worth $23 million, with an\u00a0Alexa page ranking\u00a0\u00a0of\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/data\/details\/main\/mediabistro.com\">5,275<\/a> , which means that the number of visitors she gets is within the top 100,000 most popular sites in the world. There are\u00a0 2,745 websites linking to mediabistro.com.<\/p>\n<p>She sold her website in July of 2007\u00a0to Jupiter Media. She called her rich friends to see what they recommended she buy with her newly acquired wealth. \u00a0When she was told to invest in a jet, she laughed and thought that if she did that, her money could be gone in an instant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See how the really rich live<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to CNBC.com, a financial news site, \u00a0&#8220;In 1985, there were 13 billionaires in the United States and today there are over 1,000 billionaires.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/24791078\">CNBC<\/a> has a special page devoted to videos and information about the investment bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity partners who make up the .001% of our population.\u00a0 What toys do they play with? Perhaps a Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, or Dusenberg\u00a0would pacify them? Find out how many cars <a title=\"Incredible wealth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/25099682?slide=3\">Tim Durham<\/a>, a 45 year old financier from Indiana has in his garage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to www.cnbc.com, some of the nine million people feel poor.  They are the &#8220;middle class&#8221; millionaires.  Laurel Touby, a successful internet entrepreneur, who recently sold her website www.mediabistro.com for $23 million could be one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[68,654],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolchecks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}