'Infopreneurs' find opportunity with on-line commercialization.

by Caron Schwartz Ellis

[photo, with caption: "Andrew Currie, left, and Bryan Griffin have formed Boulder-based Cyberspace Development to assist companies that want to create an online commercial presence. They can be reached at 938-8684"].

Boulder - "Bytes for dollars." That's what Andrew Currie calls offering goods and services on the Internet.

Currie, who along with a partner recently has formed Boulder-based Cyberspace Development, is one of the growing ranks of "information entrepreneurs" taking advantage of the commercialization of the Internet. Currie recognizes that most people who use the Internet are baffled by the enormous amount of information available on the world-wide network of networks.

"The actual content consumers are not the chipheads of the world," Currie says, "but are different types of consumers who have the money to pursue those interests. The old Net wisdom was 'Information wants to be free.'

"We offer an alternative view - that information wants to be freely accessible and affordable, but not monetarily free."

Toward that end Currie and partner Bryan Griffin are developing a commercial electronic publishing system that allows businesses to create a commercial presence on the Internet. The partners expect the system to be up and running by early 1994.

For companies not interested in taking orders over the Internet, Cyberspace Development will help put product catalogs online.

Currie and Griffin will create access to individual "storefronts" via custom graphical interfaces that can include on-line credit card transactions.

[ didn't type in more, the rest is discussion of The Internet Company from Cambridge, Ma. that started just before us, though didn't do online transactions, and other non-net infopreneurs]