Sally Robinson and her husband ran their farm in Yorkshire, along with a small bed and breakfast business that Sally looked after. When Sally heard about the Internet in 1999, she realised it could provide an opportunity to further diversify the farming business. She converted a couple of the outhouses into offices and Amplebosom.com was born - providing lingerie for "the larger lady", as Sally puts it. Twenty years on, Amplebosom is still going strong, whilst conforming to none of the dot co...
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Sally Robinson and her husband ran their farm in Yorkshire, along with a small bed and breakfast business that Sally looked after. When Sally heard about the Internet in 1999, she realised it could provide an opportunity to further diversify the farming business. She converted a couple of the outhouses into offices and Amplebosom.com was born - providing lingerie for "the larger lady", as Sally puts it. Twenty years on, Amplebosom is still going strong, whilst conforming to none of the dot co...
WCities was a London startup that provided local reviews written by a global team of freelancers - a kind of precursor to TripAdvisor. Its young founder, Tan Rasab, jumped on the dot com bandwagon early, hoping that his website could make money with banner advertising. When, along with many other startups, he found that wasn't going to work, he switched to the new idea that was exciting investors: sending information to mobile phones. At the time, that meant text information in black and whit...
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Sally Robinson and her husband ran their farm in Yorkshire, along with a small bed and breakfast business that Sally looked after. When Sally heard about the Internet in 1999, she realised it could provide an opportunity to further diversify the farming business. She converted a couple of the outhouses into offices and Amplebosom.com was born - providing lingerie for "the larger lady", as Sally puts it. Twenty years on, Amplebosom is still going strong, whilst conforming to none of the dot co...
