From filings: 37 companies owned (% range from 14 to about 43) Only owned 8 as of beginning of 1998!
Excerpts
The substantial growth in B2B e-commerce creates tremendous market opportunities for new emerging companies. Forrester Research estimates
that the B2B e-commerce market, defined as the intercompany trade of hard goods over the Internet, will grow from $43 billion in 1998 to more than $1.3
trillion by 2003. We focus on two types of B2B e-commerce companies, which we call market makers and infrastructure service providers.
Market makers bring buyers and sellers together by creating Internet-based markets for the exchange of goods, services and information in a
particular industrial sector. Market makers enable more effective and lower cost commerce for traditional businesses by providing access through
the Internet to a broader range of buyers and sellers. Market makers typically operate in a specific industry and tailor their business models to
match a target market's distinct characteristics. Our partner company network currently includes significant interests in 18 market makers: Arbinet
Communications, BidCom, Collabria, CommerX, ComputerJobs.com, Deja.com, e-Chemicals, eMarketWorld, Internet Commerce Systems, iParts,
ONVIA.com, PaperExchange, PlanSponsor Exchange, PointMent, RapidAutoNet, Star-Cite!, Universal Access and VerticalNet.
Infrastructure service providers sell software and services to businesses engaged in e-commerce. Many businesses need assistance in designing
business practices to take advantage of the Internet and in building and managing the technological infrastructure needed to support B2B
e-commerce. Our partner company network currently includes significant interests in 17 infrastructure service providers: Benchmarking Partners,
Blackboard, Breakaway Solutions, ClearCommerce, CommerceQuest, Context Integration, Entegrity Solutions, LinkShare, PrivaSeek, SageMaker,
ServiceSoft, Sky Alland Marketing, Syncra Software, Tradex Technologies, United Messaging, US Interactive and Vivant!.
Our partner companies accounted for under the equity method of accounting at December 31, 1998 and March 31, 1999 included:
Voting Ownership
Partner
Company
Since
December 31,
1998
March 31,
1999
EQUITY METHOD:
BidCom, Inc.
1999
N/A
25%
Blackboard, Inc.
1998
35%
35%
CommerX, Inc.
1998
34%
34%
ComputerJobs.com, Inc.
1998
33%
33%
Internet Commerce Systems, Inc.
1999
N/A
43%
LinkShare Corporation
1998
34%
34%
ONVIA.com, Inc.
1999
N/A
20%
PlanSponsor Exchange
1999
N/A
24%
SageMaker, Inc.
1998
22%
27%
Sky Alland Marketing, Inc.
1996
31%
31%
Syncra Software, Inc.
1998
53%
34%
VerticalNet, Inc.
1996
N/A
37%
Vivant! Corporation Management
1998
23%
23% |
