Vertical Travel Ad Network CEO Cree Lawson (Part 9)

SM: What is your growth strategy? CL: Growing a network is pretty straightforward. You build out the sales team and you add more publishers. We plan to continue on these core aspects while establishing more specialization, new products and barriers to entry. We have plenty of room for growth both in publisher audience base (there

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Amazon Pursues Growth At All Costs

In 2007, Amazon’s stock price appreciated by over 125%. How does it look in 2008? Amazon preserves leadership in its core retail business, while layering on a variety of “services”. Amazon posted Q407 results in line with the Street’s estimates. Revenues grew 42% y-o-y to $5.67 billion from $3.99 billion in the quarter a year

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House of Cards

CBS has an excellent segment on the sub-prime housing crisis in the US that is driving us into a recession: House of Cards. Citibank departing CEO Chuck Prince walked out with $29 Million and Merill Lynch CEO Stan O’Neal walked out with $160 Million after losing billions for their respective companies. Capitalism gone awry, indeed!