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Company Description We are actively engaged in business-to-business, or B2B, e-commerce through our Internet Zaibatsu, a community of partner companies. These companies collaborate to provide cross-selling and marketing opportunities and support entrepreneurial initiatives, business growth and the sharing of information and business expertise. We manage, finance, operate and provide services to our partner companies, offering a turn-key solution for building successful B2B e- commerce businesses. In addition to providing capital to our partner companies, we offer them a comprehensive array of infrastructure services, including web hosting and design, systems integration, information technology management and marketing and public relations. These services are designed to allow each of our partner companies to focus on its core competencies and accelerate the time-to-market of its products and services. We focus our efforts in geographic areas that we believe have a strong base of intellectual capital and entrepreneurial talent, but that have traditionally lacked sufficient infrastructure services and venture capital funding. We are initially seeking attractive opportunities primarily in the midwest and plan to address other underserved markets in the future. We intend to capitalize on the significant growth in the B2B e-commerce market. Forrester Research, an independent research firm, estimates that the inter-company trade of goods and services over the Internet, commonly referred to as B2B e-commerce, will grow from $43.1 billion in 1998 to $1.3 trillion in 2003. In addition, according to the Gartner Group, an independent research firm, e-commerce related information technology investments are expected to account for 50% of the estimated $3.5 trillion in information technology spending in 2003. Today, many new companies, including spin-outs from traditional businesses, are being formed and funded to develop technologies and solutions to support the new B2B e-commerce market. B2B e-commerce solutions are being rapidly adopted to facilitate the continuous exchange of information among business partners to large customer audiences and to allow businesses to interact more efficiently with suppliers, distributors and service providers. We establish and acquire interests in two categories of B2B e-commerce companies: market makers, which bring buyers and sellers together on Internet- based markets to exchange products, services and information, and infrastructure service providers, which offer software or services, such as consulting and systems integration. At December 10, 1999, we had established or acquired interests in the following 19 B2B e-commerce companies: Market Makers and Infrastructure Service Providers Commerx, Inc. Blueridge Technologies, Incorporated i-Street, Inc. buzz divine, inc. The National Transportation Exchange, Inc. comScore, Inc. Neoforma.com, Inc. dotspot, inc. PocketCard Inc. eXperience divine, inc. TheExecClub.com, Inc. LiveOnTheNet.com, Inc. Whiplash, Inc. OpinionWare.com, Inc. OUTTASK.COM, Inc. Sensoria, Inc. Sequoia Software Corporation Synetrics, Inc. Xqsite, Inc. | ||||||||||||
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