Oh, that is easy. First, start a business selling some kind of Internet services or software. Run it for a few months on a show string and then go public. It does not really matter what the intrinsic value of the company is; as long as it has the word “Internet” attached to it, somehow you will get rich.
At least that has been the business model until recently; however it may be changing. It remains to be seen whether Wired will make the money they hope to make. There is plenty of Internet hysteria in getting the stock onto the market; at the price, they want. Other Internet companies have used this get rich quick plan quite successfully.
Best selling author James Gleik (who wrote best seller ‘Chaos’), for instance, is worth around $25 million, according to the Internet Millionaires’ list
http://www/pulver.com/million/. Not bad for less than two years of work building a small service provider, The Pipeline, which he later sold to a large National Service Provider, PSI Net.