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NASDAQ-100 Revenue per Employee

February 7, 2009

I was discussing Revenue per Employee with some colleagues this week and noticed a lack of published ratios on the web. So I wrote a simple script to screen scrape revenue per employee data for the NASDAQ-100 from Google Finance. Note: I usually prefer Yahoo Finance because it is much more thorough, but I chose [...]

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OpenTable: A Killer Platform You’ve Never Heard Of

January 31, 2009

So far, most news I’ve seen on OpenTable’s IPO fails to analyze the company, instead myopically focusing on the boldness of going public in this market.
But this is a fair point. It’s very peculiar that a company needing only $40 million would file for IPO during a credit crunch. Further, OpenTable is backed by three [...]

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