This is a fantastic interview video. 
Jason Calacanis (who is very smart and successful) interviews Matt Coffin (who is very smart and successful) on TWiST #27:
http://www.blip.tv/file/2852558

Matt Coffin was the first to hear the Calacanis/Mahalo pitch and the first investor in Jason’s most recent startup Mahalo — he also sits on their [...]

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My personal favorite business metric is Average Revenue per Employee.
Compare these businesses:

Company
Revenue ($ MM)
Employees
Revenue per Employee ($)

The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
17246
11300
$ 1,526,195

Steel Dynamics, Inc.
8081
5940
$ 1,360,357

Google
21796
20222
$ 1,077,814

Apple
32479
32000
$ 1,014,969

Costco
72483
75000
$ 966,440

Amazon.com
19166
20700
$ 925,894

NVIDIA Corporation
4098
4985
$ 822,038

Dell
61133
80800
$ 756,597

Biogen
3172
4300
$ 737,586

QUALCOMM
11142
15400
$ 723,506

Research In Motion Limited (USA)
6009
8387
$ 716,514

Broadcom Corporation
4658
6853
$ 679,720

Microsoft Corporation
60420
91000
$ 663,956

Lam Research Corporation
2475
3800
$ 651,292

Juniper Networks
3572
5879
$ 607,651

Cisco
39540
66129
$ 597,922

Ebay
8541
15500
$ 551,049

Yahoo!
7209
14300
$ 504,091

Apollo Group, Inc.
3141
17736
$ 177,093

Paychex, Inc.
2066
12700
$ 162,702

Starbucks
10383
172000
$ [...]

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Rumors of a QuinStreet IPO have been swirling around the space on-again/off-again for years.
But wow it is official:
http://secwatch.com/filings/view.jsp?formid=2469864
I will probably circle back and add more color commentary when I have a few moments, but in the meantime, let me scream BRAVO and CONGRATULATIONS to CEO Doug Valenti and the rest of the QuinStreet team.
Just a [...]

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