The Store of HoTMaiL
Sabeer Bhatia, HoTMaiL Corporation
"Internet" - The Entrepreneurial Opportunity of This Decade"
- Sabeer Bhatia, President CEO, Founder
Caltech, Stanford, Apple Computer, FirePower Systems
- Jack Smith - Chief Technology Officer, Founder
Apple Computer, FirePower Systems
Your Field of dreams - "Build it and they will come"
- An Idea . . . A Plan . . . A Team . . . A Company
- Write a story - a believable story
- What do you want to create
- How will you create it
- Is it unique, new or different
- Who will buy it
- How will you sell it
- How much $$ do you need
- How much $$ will you make
History of the Internet and the Web
1970's": a Computer Network is designed and created for military comunication - the Internet is born
1980's - Internet becomes the backbone of electronic communication for Universities and Government Institutions
1994: The Web is created - It transformed the Internet into an easy-to-use network of links to get text and graphical information
The Internet Today . . .
- 40 million using the Internet for E-mail
- 20 million using it for Web browsing
- Netscape for browsing and Eudora for E-mail
Result of the creation of the Web
- Rapid expansion of the Web network since its introduction in 1994
- Within two years - an instant audience of 40 - 60 million people worldwide
- Over 250,000 web sites - rich with information
- So big that one needs navigational tools to find this information - formation of companies such as Yahoo! And Infoseek
Web - The Opportunity
- Why is the Web so powerful?
- Simple, easy to use & rich in multimedia
- Unifies different platforms with a single consistent client-server protocol - IP
- Powerful because information is now available at the point of a click from any computer on the network
The Opportunity - Email
- Private systems - Lotus cc:Mail and Notes, MS Mail and Exchange, Novell and Groupwise
- Public on-line services - AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy
- Internet-based mail provided by Internet Service Providers ISP's
At all Web browsers near you since July 4
- Universally accessible from any browser
- On any computer - MAC, PC, UNIX
- From anywhere in the World
- Totally Free
What is it?
The World's only Web-based Free E-mail
| Requires E-mail client software to be installed & configured |
No additional software required. Only browser software required |
| Limited accessibility from remote locations |
Accessible from any browser on any computer |
| Difficult or impossible to access with Firewall software |
No such limitation |
| User education required from time to time |
Simple and elegant - 2,500,000 users without any training |
www.hotmail.com