Making SMEs Run Smoothly: René Lacerte’s Cashview (Part 9)

SM: Any other takeaways you would like to share? RL: I think getting the team right is really important. SM: Do you have an executive team in place now? RL: I hired a woman early on to be the VP of Operations and Customer Service. She is from PayPal and worked on payments. She had

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Web 3.0 & Walt Disney (Part 1)

Introduction The Walt Disney Company is a diversified entertainment company. Disney is a Dow 30 company, had annual revenues of over $34 billion in its most recent fiscal year and a market capitalization of about $65.6 billion as of July 31, 2007. Our prior coverage about Disney is here. It operates in four major business

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IAC Restructuring

We did a long coverage on IAC’s strategy, and suggested that IAC needs a restructuring. Well, the company is being split up into five parts, as reported by the WSJ this morning. :: The five companies will be IAC, including Ask.com, Match.com and Citysearch; IAC’s retailing unit that includes the HSN home shopping network, Shoebuy

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QualComm: Chasing More Silicon

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the previous piece, we reviewed the revenue and valuation impact of potential pitfalls for QualComm. As I mentioned, a sustained future growth seemed tenuous. Let us see how QCOM might address this in the next 2-3 years –

Making SMEs Run Smoothly: René Lacerte’s Cashview (Part 8)

SM: To date, you have primarily been building the product. How do you feel about what you have accomplished in this aspect? RL: I think we have done well in that phase. I am pretty satisfied with the progress. SM: Now you have seen two businesses with a similar focus, with a sweet spot in

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I Really Like Murdoch

Seems like David Carr and Jason Calcanis do too. Read this NYT article: Murdoch, a Folk Hero in Silicon

Making SMEs Run Smoothly: René Lacerte’s Cashview (Part 7)

SM: How do you recruit customers? RL: A number of ways. The Web-based marketing techniques out there have worked very well for PayCycle. Search engine optimization, search engine marketing are all things we are doing here as well. We are just in the beginning of working on that. SM: What are the keywords people have

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Media’s Role: Dig For Dirt?

Mark Cuban has an excellent post called Media and Vulnerability where he poses the question why media is constantly focusing on the worst in people. I could not agree more. For me, Media’s role is to Inform, Educate, Inspire, Impact. Not dig for dirt.