While running Silver Disc Interactive in the UK I began working with a number of American companies. Eventually I started picking up commissions to create websites for them and, after a while, I had enough work to hire a team of developers. But to make it easier I partnered with a US citizen so that I could still travel back and forth across the Atlantic to be with my family and ensure the US company was properly managed. Also, knowing the area, he was able to secure office space cheaply, and had many contacts himself who needed web development work. We ended up being so busy that I relocated to LA with my family.
   We put together lots of small sites and a few large projects such as Wow Mail a competitor to Microsoft's Hotmail, which had about 2 million users, and You Name It, a domain registering system that allowed people to register any top level domain such as .bank or .autos instead of just .com etc. We used a small applet to add our DNS servers to a computer's DNS settings and had about 1.5 million users. Another site was Surf Share which was one of the first truly free website providers, offering the whole package you would normally have to pay for. Sadly all these services appear to be gone now.