AllBusiness.com
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AllBusiness.com, Inc.
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650 Townsend St., Ste. 675 San Francisco, CA 94103 CA Tel. 415-694-5000 Fax 415-694-5001 |
Type: Subsidiary
On the web:
http://www.allbusiness.com
When you don't want just a little bit of business advice, turn to AllBusiness.com. The Web site and e-commerce company offers information and resources geared towards small business professionals. AllBusiness.com's content includes how-to articles, business forms, contracts and agreements, business news, blogs, directory listings, product comparisons, and business guides. It supplies related content to publications such as About.com, Yahoo!, Bloomberg Businessweek, and SFGate.com, as well as the print edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. The company is a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet (D&B).
Officers:
Leader D&B Digital: Gregory (Greg) Stern
VP Engineering: Internet Content Providers
Competitors:
American City Business Journals
Entrepreneur Media
Mansueto Ventures
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AllBusiness.com
AllBusiness.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet, provides business information and resources for small businesses, those companies with fewer than 500 employees. The company also conducts research to measure the health and direction of the small business sector.[1]
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.[2] It was acquired by NBCi, the Internet venture of NBC, a subsidiary of General Electric, in March 2000 for $225 million USD.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6] AllBusiness raised $10 million USD in a series B round of venture capital funding in July 2004 [7] (drawing only $5 million) and $12.4 million USD in a series C round of funding in February 2006.[8]
In December 2007, Dun & Bradstreet acquired AllBusiness for $55 million USD.[9] Today AllBusiness.com is part of D&B Digital, a group responsible for the free, advertising-supported Web sites owned by D&B. The site now offers more than twenty million pieces of business content including articles, periodicals, videos, blogs and legal forms and agreements.
References
- ^ Payne, Michelle (2006-02-08). "The State of the (Business) Union". http://www.iiaba.net/IAMag/NewsViews/020807.html.
- ^ New York Times (2000-02-02). "COMPANY NEWS; NBC INTERNET AGREES TO BUY ALLBUSINESS.COM". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E0DB153FF931A35751C0A9669C8B63.
- ^ Sandoval, Greg (2000-02-01). "NBCi agrees to acquire AllBusiness.com". http://news.com.com/2100-1017-236384.html.
- ^ "Small biz site puts assets up for sale". 2006-03-15. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/04/15/story5.html.
- ^ Brown, Steven E.F. (2004-11-12). "Biz portal AllBusiness.com wakes from deep sleep". http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2004/11/15/story8.html.
- ^ Sanders, Adrienne (2004-07-29). "Business portal, back from the dead, hires online media veteran". http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2005/08/01/story7.html.
- ^ "AllBusiness.com Announces $10 Million Venture Financing". 2006-03-15. http://www.allbusiness.com/8141-1.html.
- ^ Morrissey, Brian (2006-03-15). "AllBusiness.com Raises $12 Mil. in Funding". http://www.adweek.com/aw/iq_interactive/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002197251.
- ^ Kramer, Staci D. (2007-12-04). "AllBusiness.com Acquired By Dun & Bradstreet For $55 Million". http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-allbusinesscom-acquired-by-dun-bradstreet-for-about-55-million/.
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