Global Structured Products: Midterm Report Card Event on June 21, 2006 Notes by Margie Yuan and Eric Shahinian Event sponsored by the Structured Products Association What are Structured Products (SP)? A contract between investor and issuer, large investment banking firms A combination of financial instrument: 0% Coupon + Derivatives Minimum Investment of $1000 Payout period...
[Continue Reading]Shawn Gold, SVP, MySpace: Marketing in a Networked Culture
Following up on my draft post on ‘Business Models for User-Generated Media’, I wrote some notes on this morning’s iBreakfast. Shawn Gold, SVP, MySpace: Marketing in a Networked Culture MySpace has 100m users projected by july 84m registered users, 2m new registered users per week (size of Houston), 48m unique visitors per month in US...
[Continue Reading]Accolo acquires Teten Executive Recruiting
I’m happy to report that, after two years of successful partnership, I have sold Teten Executive Recruiting to Accolo. I’ll be continuing in my current role running Nitron Circle of Experts, which is a separate company. Here’s the press release: Press Release For Immediate Release June 21, 2006 Accolo acquires Teten Executive Recruiting; combined firm...
[Continue Reading]Executive Recruiter Efficiency
Via Marc, I was led to a blog post by David Manaster on recruiter efficiency. He reports that "It would seem that (on average) the optimal workload for a recruiter is between 11 and 20 open positions. " I’d argue that the main reason for this phenomenon is that most recruiters are using only the...
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