4 days ago

PE Hub News: All News QuinStreet Inc., a Foster City, Calif.-based provider of online vertical marketing solutions, has filed for a $250 million IPO. The company reported $260 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30, with net income of around $17.2 million.QuinStreet has raised nearly $60 million in VC funding, from firms like Spli (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

Submitted by Mwolek from blog:  Google now provides mortgage rates to consumers and sells mortgage leads to originators.https://www.google.com/comparisonads/mortgages#ti=0 I know this new development may be disruptive and concerning to many of our friends in the mortgage lead selling space.  For those of you outside of the mortgage industry, this event i (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Mwolek from blog: I am pleased to share with you that we are going to be doing another webinar with our friends over at Leads360. Both DoublePositive and Leads360 are value added partners that are a true extensions to the lead and the sales force. We work together on dozens of mutual mortgage clients and thought it would [...]. (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Mwolek from blog: I have never once posted anything even remotely music-related on this blog before now. Leading like great conductors is more business than music. Enjoy: http://www.ted.com/talks/itay_talgam_lead_like_the_great_conductors.html SPF. (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

Submitted by Mwolek from blog: OMG? Probably not: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=internet&geo=US&cmpt=q Internet is MEGA-trend. SPF. (Read More)

Oct 08, 2009

Submitted by Mwolek from blog: When I do this quick blink of consciousness in the subject line, I come up with my three biggest Internet brands at the moment: Google Facebook Twitter Your mileage may vary. Amazon? eBay? Wikipedia? LendingTree? Expedia? Priceline? Weather.com? Yahoo!? Can we even count YouTube or does that roll up [...]. (Read More)

Sep 26, 2009

Submitted by Mwolek from blog: Oh, sorry. I mean Twitter = 1 Billion. Sorry about that. You can read more about it here, here, here, here, here, here, here, or here. SPF. (Read More)

Sep 22, 2009

Submitted by Mwolek from blog:   So, we know what WolframAlpha thinks is the ultimate answer. We also know what Google thinks of itself. We NOW know what Google Calculator thinks is the answer.  THE answer.  THE ULTIMATE ANSWER to Life, the Universe, and Everything: Please, no booing. SPF. (Read More)

Sep 21, 2009

Submitted by Mwolek from blog: Seriously.I give credit to AIM for being the FIRST Social Network as we now have come understand the Internet-based term (perhaps the real credit should go to Ham Radio and CB Radio Operators, but that’s a topic for a separate blog post).Then there was Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger.What did all three of these [ (Read More)

Sep 16, 2009

Submitted by Mwolek from blog: I believe that any Industry that has a burgeoning Lead ecosystem (Lead Buyers and Lead Sellers growing their relationships together) will eventually experience a drop in Lead Performance across the board simply because there is only a fixed amount of truly interested and highly motivated consumers out there for any product (Read More)

Michael Wolek