Almost everybody these days want to start an online business at home. But who wouldn’t when earning great profits while enjoying the comforts of your own home are the advantages that this venture is promising? Surely most of us are inspired and motivated by some of today’s best internet businesses such as Facebook and Google, which started out as ideas cooked in dorm rooms and garages.

The movie Social Network tells us of how the biggest social network website Facebook was born in 2004 through the hacking expertise and the business cunning of then Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. Now having more than 750 million users all over the world, as of July 2011, Facebook is an example of how a simple but well-thought of idea can become one of the best internet businesses.

Google is yet another example of how successful online businesses can start out from somewhere as humble as someone’s garage. Founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google is now a multinational American corporation that invested initially on Internet search, but eventually branched out to include cloud computing and advertising technologies. Just goes to show that the best internet businesses around have come a long way.

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