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* Commercializing the Internet is the new frontier
WASHINGTON - When he died in 1848, John Jacob Astor was America's richest man, leaving a fortune of $20 million that had been earned mainly from real estate and fur trading.See the full content of this document
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The End of One Kind of Doing Business?
Despite his riches, Astor's business was mainly a one-man show. He employed only a handful of workers, most of them clerks.
This was typical of his time, when the farmer, the craftsman, the small partnership and the independent merchant ruled the...See the full content of this document
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