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IPO Pipeline is Heating UP…YEA!

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by Eric | Jan 29, 2010, 10:23am EST

Activity in the IPO pipeline reached a two-year record in the fourth quarter of 2009, meeting pre-recession levels with 53 companies entering into registration, 30 IPOs launched and the overall pipeline increasing to 54 registrants seeking to raise $10.3 billion, according to the Ernst & Young LLP US IPO Pipeline study. This activity jumped from [...]

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Does Adsense Work?

by Eric | Jan 28, 2010, 12:19pm EST

[caption id="attachment_255" align="aligncenter" width="124" caption="Google Adsense"][/caption] Right around a year ago now, I made my first cent online. It was literally a cent — $0.01 — and it showed up in my Google AdSense account after a certain number of people had viewed an ad for dog food or a shiatsu massager or whatever on [...]
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CFO’s Report Optimism on the Rise

by Eric | Jan 28, 2010, 7:28am EST

[caption id="attachment_229" align="aligncenter" width="88" caption="CFO"][/caption] According to findings from the fourth quarter “CFO Outlook Survey” conducted by Financial Executives International (FEI) and Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, CFOs are looking up, but remain committed to utilizing some of the important lessons learned during the downturn and keeping companies streamlined. Their views on staffing are [...]
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Netflix – Moving Online and Making it Pay

by Eric | Jan 28, 2010, 7:06am EST

[caption id="attachment_225" align="aligncenter" width="129" caption="Netflix Online"][/caption] Netflix has just reported its Q4 2009 results, and has performed pretty well as expected, although revenue was slightly below most forecasts. What caught our eye is just how many Netflix customers are now streaming movies and TV shows online. The percentage of subscribers who watched instantly more than 15 [...]
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DST Style Investing… What?

by Eric | Jan 27, 2010, 6:59am EST

[caption id="attachment_143" align="aligncenter" width="111" caption="Yuri Milner"][/caption] What is DST style investing and where did it come from?  Turns out that when Facebook was seeking a private placement to the tune of a few hundred million dollars for future growth, in stepped Yuri Milner.  Mr. Milner is the CEO of a Russian based private venture and [...]
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How to Blow 4 Million Dollars (Ouch)

by Cameron | Jan 26, 2010, 5:55pm EST

[caption id="attachment_125" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="James Dolan of Newsday"][/caption] In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it [...]
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McKinsey Issues Warning

by admin | Jan 26, 2010, 4:08pm EST

[caption id="attachment_114" align="aligncenter" width="112" caption="Mckinsey & Company"][/caption] Two years after the recession started, why is the credit bubble still intact and/or growing? A new report by McKinsey Global Institute says that globally we have avoided the necessary deleverage process. Governments like the U.S. have increased total leverage through deficit spending. Meanwhile, they boosted leverage in areas like [...]
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