Marc Ostrofsky is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, New York Times Best Selling Author and public speaker.[1] He is the author of the books Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money Online,[2] and Word of Mouse: 101+ trends using technology on How we Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work and Play!.[3]Get Rich Click was in the top ten of the lists of bestselling books compiled by USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.[4]
In 1999 he sold the DNS domain Business.com $7.5 million to eCompanies, which was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for what was, at the time, the most expensive domain name ever sold in the world,[9] Ostrofsky owned a stake in Business.com which was sold in 2008 for $345 million.[10] He coined the phrase "Domain names and web sites are the real estate of the Internet" when he bought Business.com for $150,000 in the mid 1990s, which had been the most money ever paid for a domain name at that time.[11]
Ostrofsky founded five high tech Internet and telecommunications magazines and a dozen technology trade shows,[which?] which were later sold to Advanstar Publishing for $8,000,000.[citation needed] He later created and sold Multimedia Publishing Corporation (another firm holding magazines, trade shows and web sites) to Primedia for $35,000,000.[12]
Ostrofsky was the first outside investor in Blinds.com and a member of its board of directors. In 2014, Blinds.com was sold for over $200 Million+ to Home Depot,[13][14]
He currently owns the web sites Photographer.com, TechToys.com, APPortunity.com, MARCeting.com, LabGrownDiamonds.com, HeartDisease.com, BeautyProducts.com, Potshops.com and 200+ others.[15]
Ostrofsky is a professional public speaker domestically and internationally on business, how to make money and entrepreneurship in the age of the internet. He was a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and was the original founder of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA).[18]
