A new term has been coined to describe rich entrepreneurs and executives who strive to look like starving artists. The word is Poorgeoisie and according to the Wall Street Journal, the social class has been with us for years. What has changed is that many of them no longer have to pretend to be poor. On the other side of the spectrum are the new entrepreneurs who are launching home-based Internet marketing businesses and who are creating massive wealth in the process. These folks have no reason to pretend that they are poor and are in fact quite proud of their income and their accomplishments.

Motorola’s prototype for the first cellular phone — descriptively called “the brick” because of its appearance — dates back to 1973. Of course the inventor of the phone, John F. Mitchell, had no idea that by 1998 wireless products would account for almost 70% of the company’s revenue. The same holds true for the Internet. In the early 90s, marketing online was yet to happen. Today, with the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, the Internet is the world’s most dynamic marketplace. Internet millionaires are being created every day, and this trend will only continue to pick up momentum.

Many people say that the internet is the way of the future, but the truth is that it is the way of now. The number of businesses online continues to grow every single day as more and more people realize how many great opportunities are available and how it’s actually possible to run a successful business from home.