By Frank Lara, Guest Author If John Welch is building a new Electronic Arts then how is the real Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) doing and is it worth your time and money for a potential investment opportunity? The quick answer – they are worth your attention. Electronic Arts is the big daddy of the gaming
SM: What are your pricing guidelines now? SS: We actually don’t share that publicly, but it is not too different than payroll processing costs. The core point is if you look at the paper model, and you go to companies and ask them how much it costs to process an expense report via paper, it
Business Model Most of the online dating sites earn money mainly from subscription, ad revenue and products and services sold through its sites. The subscription rates for the dating sites vary from $29.99 per month for Match.com to $39.95 per month for Yahoo! Personals to $49.99 for True.com to $59.95 per month for eHarmony.com. eHarmony
SM: What are some of your key learnings from this journey so far? JW: At my first startup we cut off our consulting business to focus on raising venture capital that never materialized. Cash is king. Build the business that makes you money and keeps the doors open; it can finance your riskier investments. During
Top Players and Rankings Online dating, personals and matchmaking sites have been riding a boom for the past five years. According to the latest Hitwise data True.com is the most popular dating site in the US with 11% market share followed by Singlesnet.com (9.93%), Yahoo! Personals (9.13%) and Match.com (8.22%). True, founded in 2003, has
Here Steve takes us down the early history of Concur. He illustrates where the idea came from, and how the company came into being. SM: What did the company do in the beginning? SS: We have always done the same thing. We have always been focused on automating the expense reporting process. The way the
SM: Describe some of your team building experiences. Is your management team complete now? JW: The first hire was the toughest. We raised $5 million on a PowerPoint deck and the promise that we knew the industry better than anyone. But then weeks went by and we couldn’t seem to find the right people to
Concur CEO Steve Singh recently did an interview with me to discuss the development of Concur Technologies (CNQR). Concur helps corporations lower travel and expense processing costs by streamlining the expense reporting process. It is one of the companies I have covered as part of my Enterprise 3.0 series. SM: I would like to trace