Head Start, a dotcom initiative from UUNET, an MCI WorldCom Company, is an accelerator program available to small to large Internet-related businesses. If your business plan calls for utilizing increasing amounts of bandwidth, colocation and related services, you need a big company name with small company flexibility. UUNET is here to help. Simply contact us at headstart@uu.net. 

UUNET (www.usa.uu.net), an MCI WorldCom Company and a global leader in Internet communications solutions, offers a comprehensive range of Internet services to business customers worldwide. Services include Internet access, Web hosting, remote access, and other value-added services. The UUNET network spans more than 2,000 Points of Presence (POPs) around the globe, and we offer connectivity in over 100 countries and currently have more than 70,000 business customers. UUNET owns and operates a global Internet network throughout North America, and in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

The Morino Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to understanding the opportunities and risks of the New Economy and the Internet. The Institute focuses its energies on netpreneurs, who are creating new Internet-related businesses and are the drivers of the New Economy, and on youth in low income communities who at present lack the opportunity to fully participate in the New Economy. The Morino Institute’s netpreneur.org was created in 1997 to foster an entrepreneurial community, focused around the Internet, in the National Capital area. The program provides a place for New Economy entrepreneurs to learn, be informed and connect.

Blackboard Inc. is the leading Internet education company. Its software products and Web services power the online teaching and learning environments at more than 1,600 of the most prestigious colleges, universities, K-12 schools and other organizations in every state and more than 70 countries. More than 2.1 million people use the Blackboard platform worldwide. Blackboard recently was named by Washingtonian magazine as one of the best places to work in the region and by Digital South magazine as among the "Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2000."