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Beating A Weak Dollar |
By Hannah Clark Steiman | Feb 27, 2008 |
When Inc. first discussed doing a story about the weak dollar last fall, we were a little hesitant. The story wouldn't come out until January or February--what if the dollar had rebounded by then? Turns out, we had nothing to worry about. The dollar hit a new low against the euro yesterday; one euro is now worth $1.50.... |
In our story, we profiled four companies who have taken steps to counteract the effects of the falling dollar. Have your margins suffered as the greenback has weakened? If so, what have you done about it? |
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Dragon Gate Six Man Tag: Open The Freedom Gate Champion Johnny Gargano, Rich Swann & Ricochet vs CIMA, EITA & Tomahawk T.T. |
CIMA starts us off against Swann, and they shake hands before getting down to business, trading wristlocks and going to the mat for some pinfall and reversal attempts. CIMA tages Swann back to the mat and wrestles circles around him, but Swann fires CIMA into the ropes and gets taken down with a shoulderblock. They go ... |
Gargano and Ricochet get EITA and CIMA in opposite corners and take turns charging back and forth with forearms, Gargano spears EITA through the ropes and Ricochet comes in with a rolling senton for 2. CIMA comes off the top but Ricochet sees him coming and dropkicks him on the way down. CIMA returns the favor with a d... |
Winners: Johnny Gargano, Ricochet & Rich Swann |
Now Ricochet gets a shot at either the Open The Freedom Gate Title or Open The United Gate Title whenever he wants. Gargano calls CIMA back into the ring and says that when this promotion started, it was all about the Dragon Gate six man and CIMA was the highlight of all this, and CIMA caused the biggest turning point ... |
Well, DGUSA definitely held up the standard they had set in years past with the six man. This was excellent, and the last ten minutes were an all out war, and this was also a great platform for Tomahawk T.T. and EITA to show what they can do. I'm not quite so sure about the Gargano turn because it just came out of nowh... |
It's main event time! |
Shingo vs Akira Tozawa |
They tie up and Shingo backs Tozawa to the ropes and breaks clean. Another tie up, nobody goes anywhere but Shingo unloads with a series of jabs, Tozawa tries a dropkick but Shingo flattens him with a clothesline. Shingo picks Tozawa up in a fireman's carry and hits a gutbuster followed by a DDT, he tries a legdrop but... |
Tozawa and Shingo trade forearms, Shingo gets some headbutts, but Tozawa dropkicks Shingo's knees out from under him, a basement dropkick sends Shingo out to the floor, and Tozawa hits a pair of dives through the ropes and a somersault senton. Now Tozawa is in firm control, sending Shingo back inside, drilling him with... |
Now Shingo is back in the driver's seat, Tozawa tries to leapfrog him but Shingo catches him, pops him over in a suplex, and flattens himwith a diving lariat. The crowd is 50-50 as Shingo slowly picks Tozawa up to go for Made In Japan, Tozawa blocks and hits a pair of spinning kicks before dropping Shingo on his head w... |
The crowd is going nuts with a "this is wrestling" chant as Shingo gets himself fired up, he goes for Made In Japan, Tozawa slips out but Shingo nails him with a short clothesline, he tries to pop Tozawa up but Tozawa nails himwith double knees and then a charging kick for 2. Tozawa goes for a German suplex, Shingo blo... |
Winner: Shingo |
That was a HELL of a main event! Welcome back, Shingo, we missed ya. I could watch these two wrestle for three hours and be happy, but it topped off an excellent show, and I highly recommend you buy the replay. |
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8 Responses to Chart of the Week: Taxing the Wealthy to Cover Future Deficits Won't Work |
1. tara says: |
those who read Obama clearly prior to his inauguration might be the only ones that are not up to their ears in debt. initially, he blamed those executives, and business persons, for the lack of equality. there isn't much spare change to throw around these days, so i am wishing and 'hope-ing' for a 'change' come 1... |
2. Rick says: |
The only reason the left's actions seem like nonsense is if you don't realize their ultimate goal: to force a collapse of the current government so that a new government, with a new constitution, can be forged from the ashes. A government without all those pesky "individual rights" and references to a "Creator" t... |
Then their power will be complete. Totally rational. |
• Cheryl says: |
Amazing! The left says the same thing about the right! Any possibility we're all being manipulated by the cable news folks into being so scared that we must watch them all day every day? |
And seriously, is there anyone out there who doesn't think we should vote out every single person in Washington right now, and then put term limits on the new ones???? |
3. Lloyd Scallan says: |
Wake up America and recognize this is not about saving the nation. It's about destroying it through forceably taking wealth form the haves and giving it to the havenots. It's about wealth redistrubtion and |
class warfare. It's about pitting Americans against Americans for political grain. It's about communism, socialism, and Marxism. |
4. Lloyd says: |
Math must not be taught in our indoctrination centers any longer. Heritage should overlay the job or job creation decline on this chart. They do say a picture is worth a thousand words, right? |
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5. Cheryl says: |
Grammar, spelling and writing are evidently not being taught in the public school system either. |
6. Kinderlynn says: |
if taxing the wealthy were going to solve the US economic problems then why didn't we just tax the wealthy to avoid getting into these problems to begin with-remember that James Madison said "property was not made by government, but government made by and for it. The one primary and self-existent; the other secon... |
John Marshall |
This interview is with John Marshall. He started his first software business around the age of 13 by making and selling video games. His most recent businesses have included ClickTracks, which is a Web analytics company, and now Market Motive, which provides online marketing training material. John talks about what pro... |
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Adrian Bye: Today, I’m here talking with John Marshall. John is originally from the United Kingdom and built a business there. In the United States, he worked for Netscape. He also started and sold a company called ClickTracks. He is now starting a new company called Market Motive. John, you can tell us a little bit ab... |
John Marshall: I’ve always been a software entrepreneur. I started writing software when I was about 13 and have been selling it since the age of 14. At that time, I wrote eight-bit video games and sold them on cassette tape. After school, I would open the mail, collect the checks, and duplicate the cassettes myself. I... |
I then started writing driver software for color printers. I started a company with another programmer, and we built an OEM business. We developed a tool kit that made it very easy to write a color printer driver. We probably wrote drivers for 40 or more different printers. Printer manufacturers licensed the tool kit f... |
Adrian Bye: You left Netscape at the time AOL was taking over the company. What happened next? |
John Marshall: I was recruited to run a small software company that was developing an e-learning product. The company was attempting to market the product entirely online. It was a small company, so one of my many jobs was marketing the product for the Web site. |
We bought a copy of WebTrends because we needed to know what was happening on the Web site. The product really did not answer what people were doing on the site. Because I know the fundamental process to design quality software from the users’ point of view and to design an underlying product, I found the experience fr... |
Market MotiveI had an epiphany about revealing where people click on a Web site. I remember saying to somebody, “All these reports from WebTrends are just not doing any good. What I really need to see is what people click on. Then, I’ll understand what they’re trying to do on the Web site.” |
I decided to start a new company focused on solving that problem: what do people click on when they come to the Web site. That was the beginning of ClickTracks. I bootstrapped that company and designed the initial version of the product. |
The product’s key feature was the idea of placing little bars next to each hyperlink. Those bars represent the number of people who click on that link. It can be put on any Web page, homepage or site that you’re analyzing. |
We took that idea and developed a complete package around it. We made the product available for a relatively inexpensive price. It was also available as a downloadable trial. |
Adrian Bye: When they downloaded the trial you wanted them to be able to do receive value within five minutes, is that correct? |
John Marshall: Yes. Most people with a Web site had already bought or implemented a product for Web analytics. However, it didn’t actually help them understand what people were doing, and it didn’t produce useful results. |
We had a ready-made market into which we could sell. Because the market was utterly dominated by WebTrends, we had to promise our customers that they were going to be able to understand the results. We made this promise, “You’ll be able to use it in five minutes.” We also made the program really easy to access and inst... |
Adrian Bye: What did you do to make sure they received value in that time? |
John Marshall: Most of the programs, such as WebTrends, were extremely heavyweight. They were big and slow. They also needed to be installed on a big fast machine, which typically was a server. We built a very lightweight desktop application. In order for someone to try it, all they had to do was install it on the desk... |
We also made it look very friendly and very icon driven. It looked like an Apple-type product with little blue images that made it very easy for people to use. We were recognizing that the user of the program was a very busy person who didn’t have a lot of time, and they already didn’t have a lot of confidence that the... |
Adrian Bye: Did you have outside investors for your company? |
Tour EchelonJohn Marshall: We had two investors. Both of them came in separately after the company was already three years old, profitable, and selling products. We just needed a little bit of a cash infusion to help us develop additional products. |
My wife and I used our own money to start the company. It certainly was not easy, but it had a very happy outcome. I retained control of the company. I had my own decision-making power. In the end, the key was that I hired an investment bank to help us sell the company. |
Adrian Bye: Why did you want to sell? |
John Marshall: It was a personal diversification goal. When you start a company and you and your wife are the majority shareholders, a lot of your personal wealth is tied up in that one asset. That’s not necessarily a smart move. You need to diversify from that one asset because technology changes so fast. If your prod... |
Web analytics was also clearly moving in a direction where it was going to be central to many other products. For example, Web analytics is at the heart of online marketing activities with search engines, ad banner companies, e-mail providers, and RSS feeds. All of these ways of marketing to people need to have integra... |
It was really a matter of approaching companies that do those things and making sure ClickTracks was the Web analytics product they are going to use as opposed to some other company. We were already partnering with various companies. If we didn’t “marry” one of those companies, then they were going to “marry” a differe... |
Adrian Bye: Couldn’t you have been coy and let them pursue you? |
John Marshall: At first, I thought the way to do this was to be coy and wait for the phone to ring. I was already getting VCs calling and wanting to invest in the company, but I never took that money. Since I was getting calls, I felt that selling the company would be the same thing. It really doesn’t work that way. |
If you’re waiting for the phone to ring and somebody to offer to buy you, it often doesn’t happen. If you hire an investment bank, it sends a signal to the market that this company is for sale. Additionally, it motivates company A to buy because if they don’t, company B will. |
Adrian Bye: Is it necessary to send that signal through paying expensive fees to an investment banker? Why do you need the intermediary? |
John Marshall: The intermediary implies a degree of seriousness. If you’re the buyer and you know the company is represented by an investment bank, you know that the principals of the company are paying that investment bank a significant amount of money to get the deal done. Therefore, the deal is going to get done. Th... |
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