Jim Fortune is my real name.  It is not a stage, radio or made up name that I use just for the Internet world.  I was born on the East Coast and have lived in Colorado for the past 39 years.  I am a Viet Nam era vet, and unlike some Viet Nam era vets (like President George Bush) I actually went to Viet Nam.  I have two college degrees – one in Marketing and the other in Computer Information Systems.  So I am a marketing guy who does computer programming.  It is a stange match that I will tell you about sometime. 

I have been involved, in some way or the other, in the Internet since 1992.  I formed a Colorado corporation back in 1992 called Spectrum Online Systems, Inc.  This company was the beginning of a follow on company I also incorporated called Rocky Mountain Internet, Inc. (RMI).  I helped bootstrap RMI and did some of their early capital formation.  Two years later, I incorporated Colorado Network Engineering (CONEN).  While initially starting as a networking company for Netware, UNIX and other operating systems, it later bacame an Internet Service Provider (ISP) (http://www.conen.net) and was later acquired by ViaWest, a larger ISP, of Denver CO.

In 1994, concurrent with starting up CONEN, I started a company called North American Internet, Limited (NAIL), another ISP.  I bootstrapped this company starting with zero captial into a firm having monthly revenue of mid five figures (to the left of the decimal point). I sold this company (http://www.nail.net) in 2003. 

I am not an expert. I know what works and what doesn’t. I know how to start little companies and grow them into larger companies. I also can help little people reach their dreams by telling them what works and what doesn’t.  I will add to this biography as time goes on, but this short story will let you know what my background is and why I feel I can help you down the road to Internet success.