About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 207. Chapters: Fernando Espuelas, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Bonin, Anna Eshoo, List of people from Connecticut, Vint Cerf, Mark Warner, Henry A. Wallace, Edwards Pierrepont, Dan Malloy, William Eaton (soldier), Henry Molaison, Samuel Seabury (bishop), George Comer, Eli Whitney, Bill Tytla, Elias Loomis, Leon Silver, Marty Wright, John Scofield, Martha Wadsworth Brewster, Lisa Lampanelli, Linda Greenhouse, Daniel Quirk, Carl Pavano, Timothy Dwight IV, John Brewster, Jr., James Morris III, Rick Moody, George Murdock, Thomas C. Hart, Francis L. Hawks, Jonathan Carver, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Rich Whitney, C. D. B. Bryan, Samuel Holden Parsons, Jerry Weiss (artist), Abraham A. Ribicoff, Elizabeth Bear, Tony DiPreta, Samuel Jaskilka, James B. Lockhart III, Charles Nagy, Laura Nader, Frederic Eugene Ives, Jason Knight, William Henry Singleton, Sarah Winchester, Polly Bergen, Ezra Stiles, Alton Tobey, Barton Biggs, Howard Zimmerman, Gus Bivona, Priscilla Martel, Albert Schatz (scientist), Horatio Wright, Roswell King, Anthony Comstock, Veronica Ballestrini, Cleve Gray, Paula Jean Welden, Ted Knight, Thomas T. Minor, Nestell Kipp Anderson, William Swift, Henry Breault, Robert Templeton (artist), Charles Grandison Finney, Henry Dwight Barrows, James A. Kowalski, John Olaf Todahl, Mark Hummel, Tim Page (music critic), Walter Leo Weible, Terrance Knighton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, James J. Greco, David Sahadi, Tony Horton (exercise instructor), Joel Barlow, Klaus Janson, Jared Sparks, Alvin T. Smith, Rosanna Warren, Eli Todd, Joey Styles, Paul Lieberstein, Igor Kipnis, Michael Learned, Edward Ellsberg, Sandra Diaz-Twine, Lillie Devereux Blake, Warren Allen Smith, Alfred Terry, Ed and Lorraine Warren, Margaret Brennan, Henry W. Sage, Galusha A. Grow, Mark Berman, Thomas C. Acton, Jim O'Rourke (baseball), Gorman Bechard, John Aristotle Phillips, Brooks Newmark, Erica Hill, William Huntington Russell, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, Gerry Parsky, Frank P. Witek, Lorenzo Dow, Robert McKenna, Armen Keteyian. Excerpt: Fernando Espuelas (born August 6, 1966) is an American entrepreneur, author, media personality and philanthropist. Espuelas is one of the pioneers of the consumer Internet. He is the co-founder (along with Jack Chen) and first CEO of Starmedia, the first pan-Latin Internet portal, launched in 1996 and now part of Orange, France Telecom's Internet services company. Starmedia was the first venture-capital backed Latin Internet company and also the first initial public offering (IPO) in the Latin Internet industry. According to the Harvard Business School case StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution, "by the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views in the third quarter of 1999. Thirty-three-year-old StarMedia co-founder Fernando Espuelas was the toast of "Silicon Alley" and a recognized hero throughout Latin America. A picture of him on the cover of Internet World magazine--ripping his shirt open to show the Starmedia logo, like Superman, summed up the spirit of the company." By the year 2000, Starmedia was the world's leading Latin portal, serving over 25 million Spanish and Portuguese speakers every month across Latin markets in America and Europe, making it one of the top sites by audience size in the world. Latin CEO magazine reported, "Market leader. Visionary. Leader of the New Millenium. Any way you cut it, StarMedia Chairman and CEO Fernando Espuelas enjoys an enviable position. As the first pan-regional Internet company, and the first Latin American Internet company to go public, StarMedia has the mythical designation of "first mover'. Espuelas is...
