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Shurik`en Super Ninja Volume 1 of 5 (SHURIK`EN SUPER NINJA SERIES)

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Shurik`en Super Ninja Volume 1 of 5 (SHURIK`EN SUPER NINJA SERIES)

Shurik`en Super Ninja Volume 1 of 5 (SHURIK`EN SUPER NINJA SERIES)

Machi (Mac) Mathews, a pre-teen is struck accidentally by an extremely powerful Electromagnetic discharge at an experimental EM Lab facility miraculously survived it but inherited strange uncontrollable EM Powers as a result. Only through a twenty year program of Bujinkan mentored by his Grandfather a Grandmaster Ninja immersed in the way of the Ninja Mac Mathews could totally have the strange superpowers under control like being able to turn it on and off like a light switch. Twenty years later

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Business Models: Case Collection (Electronic Business Case Study Series)

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Business Models: Case Collection (Electronic Business Case Study Series)

Business Models: Case Collection (Electronic Business Case Study Series)

This volume first provides a framework for the analysis and design of business models and then presents a number of case studies applying the framework. Two case studies, Zipcar and Uber, show the evolution of business models in transportation. The Webvan case study looks at the economics of a failed startup — will today’s on-demand logistic companies be able to do better? The OpenTable case study looks at the development of a platform to support restaurants, and the HealthTap case study exami

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Carolyn Carpeneti Presents Video Series on the Art & Science of Hiring Great People

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 25, 2014

Carolyn Carpeneti, a leading executive recruiter who has helped build out leadership teams at such iconic brands as Williams-Sonoma, Levi Strauss, Puma, University of Phoenix and Mint.com, announces today the release of a series of short videos examining the executive recruiting business.

The newly published videos include “The Traditional Executive Search Model is Broken,” “Executive Recruiting: The Art vs. The Science,” and “Questions to Ask When Hiring an Executive Recruiter.” All the videos can be found at http://carpeneti.com/about.

As founder of the Northern California-based firm Carolyn Carpeneti & Company, Carpeneti has partnered with companies spanning the spectrum of large global brands to small, developing start-ups.

Carpeneti works closely with CEOs to scale their executive teams and drive full corporate build-outs. She also coaches executives and teams on how to create inspiring corporate cultures that flourish and drive growth throughout an organization.

Carpeneti believes that a successful executive placement happens when you prioritize personality and cultural fit above experience and education. “It takes a brave executive to look beyond a candidate’s pedigree and focus on the art, not the science, of hiring great people.”

In her executive recruiting work Carpeneti also explores the impact of positive energy in corporate cultures. Carpeneti comments that while “talking about the power of positive energy treads perilously close to ‘new age’ speak, it is an extremely worthwhile examination as the presence of positive energy can single-handedly transform companies.”

She adds, “I believe that positive energy inspires people to try and do more. It gives people the passion to unite to do things otherwise thought impossible. There are enormous successes that come from organizations performing at their optimum, with their leadership positively focused and their employees thriving.”

Through speeches, panels and workshops, Carpeneti’s engaging techniques have influenced numerous leaders on how to successfully grow their business, hire game-changing talent and unleash positive energy in their organizations.

About Carolyn Carpeneti

Through her firm, Carolyn Carpeneti & Company, Carolyn Carpeneti has worked with an extensive range of consumer and retail companies spanning large multinational firms, early- and mid-stage start-ups. She specializes in collaborating closely with CEOs and their teams to build out their organizations with visionary, senior executives in marketing, sales, finance, business development and human resources.

In addition to executive level recruiting, consulting and long-term executive search solutions for companies, Carpeneti also works as an Advisor to private equity firms to guide them in the recruitment of strategic advisers, industry experts and Board members. Moreover, she provides human capital due diligence for private equity and venture capital firms before and after the acquisition phase.

Prior to her career as an executive recruiter, Carpeneti founded a high-profile event production and fundraising firm. Carpeneti worked on the production of a number of prestigious, large-scale events such as the 2000 San Francisco X-Games. She also created the annual Women’s Conference, with an attendance of 5,000+ that featured renowned speakers such as Oprah Winfrey, Suze Orman and Madeleine Albright, and focused on changing the lives of others through inspiration and positive energy.

Carolyn Carpeneti currently lives in the Northern California. She is a frequent speaker to corporations and associations on human capital and talent acquisition. You can learn more about Carolyn Carpeneti at http://www.carpeneti.com. Additional video clips may be found at http://www.YouTube.com/user/carolyncarpeneti. You can also follow her on Twitter @CCarpeneti.







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Postmates Raises $16 Million Series B Round, Led by Spark Capital

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 18, 2014

Postmates, the leading on-demand delivery service, announced today that it has raised an additional $ 16 million in capital for its Series B financing round to support its dramatic growth and expand geographically. The latest round was led by Spark Capital with follow-on from existing investors. Nabeel Hyatt, Venture Partner at Spark Capital, will join founders Bastian Lehmann and Sean Plaice on the company’s Board of Directors along with Scott Banister.

“We’re currently averaging thousands of deliveries per week. Customers who order more than 10 times per month contribute to more than 30% of order volume; customers who order more than 5 times per month contribute to more than 50% of order volume,” said Bastian Lehmann, CEO and co-founder of Postmates. “More importantly, is how quickly our supply is growing. We have nearly 2,000 active Postmates couriers on the platform in our four markets.”

Since closing its Series A funding in December of 2012, Postmates has developed its own proprietary logistics software that successfully dispatches and guides couriers through major metropolitan areas to deliver local goods including prepared food, groceries and retail goods. The company has forged partnerships and promotional campaigns with merchants in San Francisco, D.C., Seattle and New York, including Whole Foods, Momofuku Milk Bar, Hapa Ramen and The Meatball Shop, among others.

“We are experiencing remarkable growth and strong national demand for our mobile platform,” said Lehmann. “This new round of financing and group of investors – with their proven success in identifying potentially successful consumer products such as Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr – will guide us through this critical growth stage. With Spark’s support, we’ll continue to push the boundaries of e-commerce and logistics within local markets.”

This investment will enable Postmates to strengthen its position as the industry leader in same-day delivery. The company plans to improve its understanding of local inventory and aggressively invest in their operations, design and engineering teams to meet increasing domestic and international demand for the product.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Postmates. They have a magical product and have proven this past year they know how to handle incredible growth while keeping quality high,” said Nabeel Hyatt, Venture Partner at Spark Capital. “Bastian and his team have created a service that not only puts your city in the palm of your hand, but it also does that while helping support the local businesses that make a city what it is.”

Postmates previously closed a $ 5 million Series A round from FoundersFund and received a $ 1.75 million seed round with SoftTechVC, Matrix Partners, Scott Banister, Naval Ravikant, Russel Simmons, Thomas Korte, Shervin Pishevar, Dave Morin, and David Sacks participating amongst others. The Series B brings Postmates’ total funding to just over $ 22 million.

About Postmates:

Postmates is transforming the way local goods move around a city by enabling anyone to get any product delivered in under one hour. Postmates’ revolutionary urban logistics & on-demand delivery platform connects customers with local couriers, who purchase and deliver goods from any restaurant or store in a city. Postmates’ mission is to become the on-demand delivery infrastructure for every major city in the world. Postmates was co-founded by Sam Street, Sean Plaice and Bastian Lehmann in 2011, and is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in London, Seattle and New York.

Postmates is free to download from the app store or by visiting: http://www.postmates.com

About Spark Capital

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs seeking to build disruptive, world-changing companies. Founded in 2005, the firm manages approximately $ 1,500,000,000 across four funds. Headquartered in Boston, Spark maintains an office in New York and invests across the globe. Spark Capital focuses on Internet and mobile investments across the following key categories: advertising & monetization, commerce & services, content & media, financial services, hardware & infrastructure, mobile and social.

For more information, visit http://www.sparkcapital.com







Business Start-up Workshop Series 'Simple Steps to Starting Your Business'

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New March Releases from God of War and Tomb Raider Series Unable to Knock BioShock from the #1 Spot on List of Most Compelling Video Game Storylines

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 21, 2013

Bioshock currently sits atop Ranker’s “Most Compelling Video Game Storylines” list with a comfortable lead over closest competitor, Half-Life. What’s interesting is that both games have been out for over 5 years. (Half-Life will be celebrating it’s 15th anniversary this year.) As of March 2013, the crowd-sourced list has been voted on by over 1000 people at consumer opinions website Ranker.com, and includes other popular video game franchises like Mass Effect, Fallout, and Final Fantasy.

The rest of the Top 10 Video Game Storylines are as follows:

1) Bioshock

2) Half-Life

3) Mass Effect 2

4) Mass Effect

5) Half-Life 2

6) Fallout 3

7) Portal

8) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

9) Heavy Rain

10) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

When asked why Bioshock would be number one on the list after all this time Dan Casey, Associate Editor at Nerdist.com, had this to say: “What sets Bioshock’s narrative apart from the pack isn’t just its memorable setting or those terrifying moments when the lights go out and all you can hear is the skittering of Splicers [the villains in the game]; it’s the burden of morality which it forces the player to shoulder, and for that alone, it is a game worth experiencing.”

See the full list of Compelling Video Game Storylines, as well as 1000s of other Video Games lists at Ranker.com.

Ranker.com is the premier crowd-sourced platform for consumer rankings. Consumers visit Ranker.com more than seven million times a month to view, rank and vote on broad, opinion-based questions across a wide range of topics including food, sports, travel, entertainment, cars and many others. The Ranker.com results are pure, unbiased and based on semantic algorithms that assign values based on mean numbers and ranker behavior. For more information, visit Ranker.com.







Chicago Cloud IT Services Company Announces $2.4 Million Series A Funding

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) February 04, 2014

ADAR IT, a Chicago-based cloud computing company has secured $ 2.4 million in Series A funding from MK Capital and engaged BOSI Global as an operating partner to build on 84% compounded annual growth and 97% customer retention.

ADAR IT is an innovative cloud IT services company bringing enterprise-level cloud solutions to small to medium-sized businesses. Each customer is set up with their own ADAR Private Cloud™ – so their entire IT infrastructure gets virtualized. Power outages and disasters affecting an office infrastructure no longer affect productivity or data security. Individuals can access their entire virtual desktop from anywhere with a high-speed connection – using even a tablet or smartphone. Customers pay a flat monthly fee to access this end-to-end technology on demand—from desktops, servers, and data storage—to unlimited technical support and IT consulting.

“We are a next-generation managed service provider that cares deeply about the customer experience,” says CEO and co-founder Vadim Vladimirskiy. “We bundle all of the IT services a business owner needs into a secure, sophisticated and reliable solution. One fixed monthly price covers all things IT.”

ADAR’s innovative delivery of IT services and fanatical customer service has led to rapid growth, customer churn of under 3%, and evangelist-like customers in the US, Europe and Asia.

“When I first met Vadim I was quite impressed with how he had built ADAR IT, with essentially no paid in capital, into a managed services provider with over 100 customers around the globe” says Bret Maxwell, General Partner at MK Capital, “and his vision for providing a state-of-the-art, cloud-based offering serving the small and medium-sized marketplace that was both cost effective and of high quality. As we learned more and conducted due diligence, we were even more impressed at the level of customer satisfaction – with many customers being almost evangelical in their praise for the solution. ADAR is offering a solution today for small and medium size enterprises that historically was only available to much larger entities at a significantly higher price point.”

“Vadim is a smart, driven entrepreneur,” says Charlie McClary, CEO of BOSI Global – ADAR’s operating partner. “In a world where entrepreneurs chase Series A funding with marginal revenues and no profits, it is refreshing to see someone like him build a thriving high-growth company with substantial profits first. We’re energized to partner with him to take ADAR IT to the forefront of the managed services space.”

About ADAR IT

ADAR IT provides cloud-based IT solutions for small and mid-size businesses. IT services include server hosting, desktop hosting, network design and implementation, software licensing, network security services, local and off-site backup, ongoing network maintenance and support, disaster recovery systems, and consulting services. In addition, ADAR IT provides customers with a fully managed network migration service from traditional in-house IT systems to the cloud-based platform, giving small to mid-size businesses the same IT advantages enjoyed by Fortune 500 enterprises. For more information, visit http://www.adarit.com or call (877) 860-0700.

About MK Capital

MK Capital invests in early and growth stage companies in the software and digital media industries. The firm’s partners, who average over fifteen years of venture capital experience, partner with entrepreneurial management teams to build leading companies in emerging markets. MK Capital has deep domain expertise in the marketing, education and cloud infrastructure industries. The firm is headquartered in Chicago and has offices in Los Angeles and Ann Arbor. MK Capital manages over $ 250 million in capital and is actively seeking new investment opportunities. For more information, visit http://www.mkcapital.com or call (312) 324-7700.

About BOSI Global

BOSI Global serves as Operating Partner to venture-backed and privately held companies. The company is made up of successful entrepreneurs and corporate leaders with strong pedigree in high-growth operations across all areas of business. BOSI Global has offices across the US as well as in Singapore, Europe and Canada. For more information, visit http://www.bosiglobal.com or call (877) 264-2674.

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WePay Raises $15 Million in Series C Funding to Grow its Payments API for Platform Businesses

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Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) January 16, 2014

WePay, the payments company behind platform businesses, announced today $ 15 million in Series C financing. The company will use the funds to accelerate its growth through further investments in its payments API product and international expansion. Revenue from WePay’s payments API has grown over 600% in the last year, and the company has over 300 platform partners. In addition, today the company is announcing its plans to discontinue its direct-to-consumer offering in order to focus exclusively on its payments API built specifically for platform businesses such as online marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software.

This round of financing was led by financial services and payments pioneer Phil Purcell of Continental Investors, co-founder of the Discover Card and former CEO of Morgan Stanley. Continental Investors has investments in several notable financial services companies, including the leading mobile payment and loyalty company, LevelUp. Paul Purcell will represent Continental on the WePay board.

A number of top technology and payments experts also participated, including:

    Max Levchin, founder & former CTO of PayPal
    Maynard Webb (Chairman of Yahoo!, board member of Salesforce, former COO of eBay, and former CEO of LiveOps), through the Webb Investment Network (WIN), his early-stage venture capital firm
    Angel investor Raymond Tonsing

All existing institutional investors, including Highland Capital Partners, August Capital and Ignition Partners, participated in this round. This round brings WePay’s total financing to $ 35 million.

“Platform businesses like online marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software are the most exciting segment of ecommerce today,” said Paul Purcell of Continental. “WePay’s focus here, coupled with their ability to give these platforms a payment solution that offers both flexibility and protection from fraud and compliance risk, is a recipe for success.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Continental to the WePay family. The team’s depth of operating and investment experience with later stage companies, payments, financial services and the public markets will be invaluable to WePay as we grow,” said Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.

Unlike general-purpose payment APIs and processors, WePay is uniquely focused on serving platform businesses such as online marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software. WePay gives these platforms the flexibility they need to design new commerce experiences while still protecting them from the burdens of fraud and compliance. WePay’s proprietary VedaTM social risk engine underpins its API and is honed to understand the platform’s users.

About WePay

The WePay® payment API is built specifically for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software. These platforms are empowering millions of users worldwide to unlock all kinds of creative commerce. Through its proprietary VedaTM social risk engine, WePay gives platforms a flexible payment API that provides a great user experience while still taking on all their fraud risk and compliance burdens.

WePay has processed transactions for more than 250,000 customers and over 300 partners. Platform businesses such as GoFundMe, HoneyFund, CustomMade, Care.com and LessAccounting have chosen WePay’s API to handle their payments. The company’s customer service team won the 2013 Gold Stevie Award for its outstanding work with customers. For more information visit http://www.wepay.com.

About Continental Investors

Continental Investors is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Phil Purcell. Continental invests in private companies primarily in the financial service industry and in consumer businesses where the Internet is important. Continental Investors are a strategic source of capital and look for opportunities where their industry experience and relationships can benefit management and other private investors. Prior to Continental, Phil was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dean Witter, Discover & Co. from 1986 until they acquired Morgan Stanley Group Inc. in 1997. He then served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley until his retirement in 2005. Paul Purcell has nearly15 years of experience deploying capital in public and private markets for financial services and payments companies.

WePay is a registered trademark, and Veda is a trademark, of WePay, Inc.







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