These firms are reacting to the Internet-based businesses that are offering account aggregation with the hope of serving as a financial home page for consumers.

During the mid-2000s she worked from home, running a small Internet-based business, and edited the Poetry Worm, a monthly periodical distributed by email.

To make more money, he worked at two side jobs - making videos for weddings and the like, and running an Internet-based wholesale business with friends.

But here, too, social perspectives intruded: 50 percent said they expected Internet-based business to widen the gap between the world's rich and poor.

The company pioneered efforts to create a fully automated, on-line auction and trade systems for general commerce and eventually turned into an Internet-based business.

Or would it fail, deepening the gloom about Internet-based businesses?

Exercises in valuing Internet-based businesses by traditional means can end in snapped pencils and thrown-up hands.

Tribal leaders hope that in addition to creating jobs that support the network and services delivered to users, the network can stimulate Internet-based businesses.

It took 75 companies public - many of them nascent Internet-based businesses like Firepond and Netegrity - during the period covered by the investigations.

Start.com is a documentary about two ambitious young entrepreneurs who decide to start a Internet-based business during the heyday of the "Dotcom revolution".