"With WomenEntrepreneur.com, we've created a social and interactive platform for this community that can't be found anywhere else," says Dave Pomije, VP of site development at Entrepreneur.com. ..."Unlike other media websites that devote a few pages to women, ours stands completely on its own, is fully supported by the latest Web 2.0 features with interactive capabilities, and offers content from a network of the best experts in the field." According to Lesonsky, "Women business owners continue to grow in number, strength and impact. Now with WomenEntrepreneur.com, we're launching our latest and most expansive online resource for women, giving them even more of the content they want. Women business owners continually pitch us ideas about what they'd like to learn to grow their companies, and we make sure to answer their needs on WomenEntrepreneur.com." "Everything we've built into the site is intended to make it clean in look and feel, highly engaging for all our visitors and participants, and leading-edge in Web 2.0," says Pomije. "As a result, we've created not only a unique place for this community, but an ideal means for advertisers realizing the significance of this market to make a deeper connection to it through their partnership."
Before you start reading about David Pomije and how he is shooting for the No. 3 spot on Inc. magazine's 1993 list of the 500 fastest-growing companies (if all his projections stay on track), first ...answer a one-question quiz: What is the most protitable company in Japan? Sony, you guess. Mitsubishi? Honda? Wrong, wrong, wrong. If you have a 10-year-old kid, though, she probably can tell you the answer--she can, that is, if you can tear her away from her video games long enough to reply. Nintendo's the right answer. Though the Japanese company started selling its game machines in this country only five years ago, already more than 40 percent of American homes boast the machine. Besides that, more than 40 million game units have been sold, says Pomije, who has a vested interest in keeping track of the big giant. Furthermore, Nintendo has sold more than 250 million game cartridges in the United States alone, with each game selling at prices that start at $60 a crack. It's a super-heated phenomenon that shows no sign of slowing down. (excerpt)
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"Twenty years ago it was common to get calls from people saying they have $1,000, they like bikes and want to open a bike shop. Ask why they wanted to open a shop, and you'd hear, 'Well, I used to ...race,' or Ι really liked bikes when I was young,' or Tm just out of college and it's what I've always wanted to do,'" Eva Kemmerer said.
It is an apt symbol for the 43-year-old Pomije as his Funcoland chain of interactive games stores hums along with record sales and profits. And Pomije's newest entrepreneurial venture - a retail ...concept selling used golf equipment - shows signs of catching fire. Along the way, though, Pomije has weathered nasty fallout with a business partner, cash-only terms with creditors, a shareholders' lawsuit and, more recently, legal trouble from an ex-girlfriend who said in a suit that was later dismissed that Pomije made her little more than a prostitute by lavishing gifts on her, promising to marry her and then dumping her for an exotic dancer. Scattered among the ruins of Protectronics inventory were 1,100 Nintendo games, which Pomije decided to lease to video stores. He eventually began buying used games to update his inventory, and then advertising titles in industry magazines. Pomije called his new business Funco Inc.
It took two business failures, including a million-dollar bankruptcy five years ago, but it appears that Dave Pomije might just have this entrepreneuring thing figured out at last. You are free to ...interpret that observation as an understatement. Pomije (pronounced POM-uh-jay) is president of Funco Inc., proprietor of a rapidly growing chain of FuncoLand retail stores that buy and sell used--uh, pardon me, previously played--video games. Little more than three years ago, Funco was strictly a mail-order outfit with annual revenues of less than $300,000. But by the end of fiscal 1993 in April, the company had 56 retail stores with annual revenues of $20.5 million. (excerpt)
Funco, Inc. (Nasdaq-NNM: FNCO) today announced the following organizational changes: David R. Pomije, founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer will continue to head the Company and focus on ...marketing, merchandising, publications, new business concepts and overall Company strategy. Stanley A. Bodine is appointed President and Chief Operating Officer and will be responsible for store operations, human resources, finance information systems, real estate and distribution functions. Mr. Bodine has been Executive Vice President and a Director of the Company since March 1992. (excerpt)
