netpreneur

Indeed, the Netpreneur program has identified more than 1,000 new Internet-related companies in its data base.

Netpreneur: Garden.com, for creating the definitive Web resource for gardeners.

Last year, it started a spinoff, the Netpreneur program, which is aimed at building the wired business community by getting digital entrepreneurs together, on line and off.

While the Knowledgeway Project is expected to have only a five-year existence, Mr. Morino and his team believe the Netpreneur program can be self-sustaining and lead to a model that can be used throughout the country.

Some of these acknowledgements and inquiries included Orange County, FL Public Library, AUCD, and MCI's SVP Technology Vint Cerf who was referred by a DC netpreneur.

Netpreneur (www.netpreneur.org) sponsors conferences, offers a data base of business plans for companies looking for investors, and plans a full-scale survey of the Washington region's new-media economy, similar to those commissioned by the New York New Media Association of Silicon Alley.