BlueStreak.com Expands, Adding Sales and Business Development Staff in Four New Corporate Offices.Business/Technology Editors NEWPORT, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000 Significant Growth in Company Staff, Development of New Services and Increase in Customer Demand Spur SPUR - An early system on the IBM 650. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. Additional Offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Chicago and Boston BlueStreak.com, the interactive marketing solutions provider, announced today it has opened additional offices in San Francisco, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Chicago and Boston. The opening of these offices occurs shortly following the one-year anniversary of the company's inception in March, 1999. The new offices house various BlueStreak.com teams, including sales, customer service and marketing staff. Since the company's debut, the number of employees has increased by more than 500 percent from 9 to 47 (27 of those new employees have joined BlueStreak in the past 4 months) - a testament to management strategy and industry acceptance of BlueStreak.com's exceptional services. Additional staff and new office locations enable BlueStreak.com to continue development of cutting-edge marketing solutions that are transforming the industry. In June 1999, BlueStreak.com wowed the online advertising industry by launching its rich media-enabled banner solutions. BlueStreak.com's On-The-Fly solution enables customers to create, modify, and optimize optimize - optimisation in real-time rich media advertising and email marketing campaigns faster and more cost effectively than competing offerings--minus the involvement of a technical team. In one year, BlueStreak.com's solutions have won over a large group of blue-chip customers. The company has worked with corporations including: AT&T, Barnes & Noble, Lycos, Pfizer and Ford Motor Company. BlueStreak.com has also established relationships with leading advertising agencies including: Beyond Interactive, iFrontier, K2 Design, and Digitas. The new U.S. offices enable the company to better serve and expand its growing customer base. "The past year has been about products and development as BlueStreak.com quickly established itself as the winner in the rich media marketing space and as industry experts now view the company as a leading marketing solutions provider that is really going places," said Annette Tonti, president of BlueStreak.com. "The year 2000 is about growth, and I am extremely excited about our new locations across the country as we take BlueStreak.com to the next level." About BlueStreak.com BlueStreak.com offers high-impact rich media and interactive marketing solutions. By leveraging the power of rich media and on-the-spot transactions, BlueStreak.com customers are building brands, driving traffic, acquiring customers, and selling products across the Internet. Key innovations introduced by BlueStreak.com solve problems relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc intrusiveness in·tru·sive adj. 1. Intruding or tending to intrude. 2. Geology Of or relating to igneous rock that is forced while molten into cracks or between other layers of rock. 3. Linguistics Epenthetic. , site acceptance and speed. The company's On-The-Fly System enables customers to create, modify, and optimize their online and email marketing faster and more cost effectively than competing offerings--minus the involvement of a technical team. Based in Newport, RI, the privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. was founded in March 1999, and has offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston. In January 2000, BlueStreak.com received $7 million in Venture Capital financing To start an own company or to bring a new product to the market, the venture may need to attract financial funding. There are several categories of financing possibilities. If it is a small venture, then perhaps the venture can rely on family funding, loans from friends from Zero Stage and Lazard Technology Partners and added industry icon Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte (born 1943) is an architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. He is the younger brother of John Negroponte, current United States Deputy Secretary of State. to its Board of Advisors. You can find examples of BlueStreak.com solutions at work, as well as more information on the company, at http://www.bluestreak.com. |
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