Andy Sernovitz, one of the original Internet entrepreneurs, is founder of GasPedal Ventures, an incubator for Internet startups. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Wharton School of Business, where he teaches an MBA course on Internet Entrepreneurship, and is President Emeritus of the Association for Interactive Media, the world's largest association of Internet companies.

In 1993, Andy Sernovitz began pulling the Internet industry together under AIM. As founder and head of daily operations for AIM, Sernovitz has served as the voice of the Internet industry. He sold AIM to the Direct Marketing Association in 1998. AIM represents hundreds of companies that are turning Internet opportunities into real profits, including America Online, the New York Times, Citicorp, Yahoo, and many more.

Andy Sernovitz also provides discreet consulting services to prominent Internet companies and select start-ups, including MyPoints.com, Politics.com, Experian, and Hitachi. He specializes in affiliate marketing and rainmaking, using the many contacts and confidences he gained AIM...