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November 24, 2009
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comSCORE's RATINGS WAR SURVIVAL
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| Our next Breakfast & Schmooze: "Outlook on Energy." Dec 15, at the Sheraton Premiere. Featuring DoE CFO Steve Isakowitz, a former exec at Lockheed and Booz Allen, now guiding the energy purse. Register now! |
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| Recessions bring out great survival stories, and we’ve got a doozie from the last recession, courtesy of Magid Abraham, CEO of comScore (the Nielsen of web usage). He addressed TiE DC last night at Wildfire in Tysons. |
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During the dot-bomb era, Magid says his company ran 60 servers through PSINet, but when service began to decline because of PSINet’s financial situation, and comScore couldn’t get out of its contract, Magid took matters into his own hands. “One of our guys rented a U-Haul and pretended to be a maintenance worker doing upkeep on the servers; he took them right out of the warehouse.”
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Magid says Reston-based comScore now has more than 600 employees over about a dozen global offices, despite entering the market long after Nielsen. Another tip: Be nice to the media (we like that one). Magid says comScore is cited 250 times a day by media organizations, almost double the rest of the industry combined.
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Top 100 VCs!
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Congrats to Valhalla Partners general partner Gene Riechers, recently named to the AlwaysOn VC 100, recognizing VCs who've backed the most profitable winners in the last four years. Gene says he’s the only local on the list. His street sign pays homage to a road in Menlo Park, CA, where all the big VCs reside: “We like to consider ourselves the East Coast version.” Bad news for competition: there were no stop signs in sight.
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| KIDNEY BALL! |
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We caught a number of local techies at Saturday’s Kidney Ball at the Hilton Washington, which raised $1.15M for the National Kidney Foundation. Here's NKF supporter Xavier Alire, IBM Public Sector head Anne Altman, and NKF CEO Tony Englert.
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Want to know who else turned out for the glimmering event? Check out today's issue of The Scene Bisnow. The ball featured a performance by Blondie and an appearance by Nationals center fielder Nyjer Morgan. In this pic: American Technology Services’ Jeff Chandler, CGI’s Donna Morea, ICI Mutual’s Julia Ulstrup, and CSC’s Leif Ulstrup. Full coverage here.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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December 07 - Bisnow Breakfast & Schmooze - "2010" - With Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein, forecaster Steve Fuller, and others. Reagan Building. Info
December 15 - Bisnow Breakfast & Schmooze - "Outlook on Energy." Featuring DoE CFO Steve Isakowitz, a former exec at Lockheed and Booz Allen, now guiding the energy purse - Great networking, too! 7am-9:45am - Sheraton Premiere. Info
December 15 - Mountaintop Marketing Peak Series CIO Breakfast - Charles Wisecarver, Deputy CIO, Department of State. Early Bird Rate: $88. Info
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