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New venture by Don Nicholas's Blue Dolphin to II mariazine subs throuah online newsletters.


A veteran newsletter and publishing executive has teamed up with a venture capital firm that is putting up $10 million to fund the launch of a series of free electronic newsletters designed to sell Designed to Sell is an HGTV American reality television show hosted by Clive Pearse. The show focuses on the fixing up and renovation of a home that is about to go on the market. It is one half hour long and is produced by Pietown Productions. The show began airing in 2004.  subscriptions to magazines and other periodicals.

Donald L. Nicholas of the Blue Dolphin Blue Dolphin may refer to:
  • A cocktail mixed with Rum, Blue Curaçao, Vodka, lemonade, and soda
  • A cocktail mixed with Vermouth, Blue Curaçao, Grenadine, and lemonade
  • A glass of water on ice with a straw
  • A holiday park in Filey, North Yorkshire
 Group in Wayland, Mass., reported that Blue Dolphin Money Update will be launched in mid-August and will be the first of some 20 special-interest free electronic newsletters that will go online during the coming months.

BD Money Update will use select editorial content from such publications as Forbes, Worth, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Kiplinger's Personal Finance (KIP-lin-jerz) is a magazine that has been continuously published, on a monthly basis, from 1947 to the present day. It was the nation's first personal finance magazine, and prides itself on delivering "sound, unbiased advice in clear, , Morningstar Fund Investor, Red Herring Red Herring

A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company.

Notes:
, Bloomberg, and other publications. The free newsletter will basically be used as a vehicle to get the viewer to subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day"
subscribe, take

buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company";
 one of the publications.

"Blue Dolphin gets to use select editorial content from these publications and in return... we try to sell a print subscription to their publication," Nicholas said. "Blue Dolphin gets to keep the lion's share of the revenue and the publication adds to the rate base, which allows it to sell more advertising."

Blue Dolphin plans to launch two additional free electronic newsletters this fall covering health and travel. The firm plans to launch 17 more free online newsletters in 2001 and 2002 covering a variety of special-interest topics.

Two other firms use the internet to sell or offer free trial subscriptions to financial publications--INVESTools.com and newsletter. com's Finance.Newsletters.com.

Nicholas has been the founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of three successful publishing service firms: Lighthouse lighthouse, towerlike structure erected to give guidance and warning to ships and aircraft by either visible or radioelectrical means. Lighthouses were long built to conform in structure to their geographical location. Until the beginning of the 19th cent.  Publishing Services, Jordan-Savage Direct, and Blue Dolphin. He's in the process of divesting himself of Subscription Marketing newsletter.

The $10 million venture capital was provided by North Bridge Venture Partners of Massachusetts and Matrix Partners of California and Mass. The principals in both of these firms will join the Blue Dolphin board.
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