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From Startup To 500 Million Dollars: VistaPrint CEO Robert Keane (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 30th 2009

SM: Earlier you explained how you made a transition from your core business to a much wider variety of businesses. One area that seems like an obvious opportunity for you is in the software-as-a-service business. SaaS does carter to a lot of small businesses with various solutions, including email marketing and CRMs. Have you considered

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Deal Radar 2009: Colosa

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 30th 2009

Deal Radar returns to a hot topic, enterprise open source, via an area that it has not covered recently: business process management. South America-based Colosa develops software solutions that help companies automate approval-based workflow processes by interconnecting people and systems across the organization. The company offers a free open source application, ProcessMaker®, which is an AJAX-enabled,

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From Startup To 500 Million Dollars: VistaPrint CEO Robert Keane (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, Jun 29th 2009

SM: What is your current operating margin? RK: Our net profit after tax is about 10%. Our EBIDTA is about 23%. Our operating profit is in the teens.

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Sal L. Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi

Posted on Monday, Jun 29th 2009

Sal Arnuk is partner, co-founder and co-head of equity trading of Themis Trading LLC. Mr. Arnuk has extensive experience in equities trading and is an expert in electronic trading. Prior to Themis, Mr. Arnuk established an equity agency trading business (OTC and Listed equities) at Smith Jacobs & Company in 2000. Prior to Smith Jacobs,

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Deal Radar 2009: Critical Media

Posted on Monday, Jun 29th 2009

CNN’s ratings soared last Thursday evening as viewers tuned in to coverage of Michael Jackson’s death, demonstrating that traditional broadcast news still has a strong pull. But when it’s not a case of breaking news, broadcasters, advertisers and publishers are still trying to figure out what forms twenty-first century media and its distribution will take. Tonight’s Deal Radar company is

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From Startup To 500 Million Dollars: VistaPrint CEO Robert Keane (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Jun 28th 2009

SM: The strategic moves you implemented seemed to have allowed you to scale very quickly. RK: They certainly did, especially in the 2003 to 2004 timeframe.

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Catching Up On Readings: Juggling Mothers

Posted on Sunday, Jun 28th 2009

Here is a summary of the posts from this past week, in case you missed them.

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Why Institutional Investors Should Be Concerned About High Frequency Traders

Posted on Sunday, Jun 28th 2009

By Guest Authors Sal L. Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi [This post on high frequency traders is part of the blog’s continuing effort to shine the light on various problems in the financial system as lawmakers, industry players, and journalists debate how to best reform it.] It is now generally understood that high frequency traders (HFTs)

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