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No. 8 StubHub

San Francisco, CA

Year	2006
Founded	2000
Growth	3,247.8%
Revenue	$199.0 million
Employees	230
Website	www.stubhub.com

What it does: Creates a buying and selling venue for tickets to concerts, performances, and sporting events.

Why it's growing: Buyers seem to find online exchanges easier, with better selection and (often) lower prices than traditional brokers. In the old days, sellers, including corporate customers and season ticket holders, often threw away tickets rather than trying to resell them. Getting started: Co-founder and CEO Jeff Fluhr--Wharton, the Blackstone Group, Thomas Weisel Partners--never forgot his college days of buying concert and sporting tickets from shady characters in alleys and thinking there had to be a better way."

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