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To: Kaliico who wrote (11665)	9/5/1999 11:29:00 AM
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On B2B.. a profile on VerticalNet (VERT)... Right now there are few pure B2B plays, VERT is one and ICGE(B2B company incubator) is another. From The Standard : Taking Care of Business By Jackie Cohen CASE STUDY: VerticalNet Mr. Walsh's Neighborhoods by Michelle V. Rafter While several companies are building online exchanges devoted to single industries, one company is busy staking out hundreds of industries. VerticalNet of Horsham, Pa., has built or acquired 43 industry-specific trading communities since 1995. It is also expected to launch at least seven more by year's end, thanks in part to cash raised in a February initial public offering. Although sites like Paint and Coatings Online or Test and Measurement Online may sound mundane, they represent a golden opportunity, according to company president Mark Walsh. "Business-to-business still remains the ugly, unsexy stepchild of e-commerce, but we're where the money is," he says. for more : thestandard.com A nice metric, do the numbers, if B2C is 1.3 trillion, B2B maybe 7 trillion : METRICS ~~~~~~~ Half a Billion Surfers Worldwide by 2003 Worldwide Internet Forecast 1998 2003 Web Users 142.2 Million 502.4 Million E-commerce $50.4 Billion $1.3 Trillion Non-U.S. Activity Will Dominate the Net 1998 2003 Web Users U.S. 44% 35% Non-U.S. 56% 65% E-commerce U.S. 74% 54% Non-U.S. 26% 46% Source: International Data Corp. Get to know more about Internet business by the numbers, with the analysis to make it useful, at thestandard.com