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Ringing in the New Year I decided to send an email out to all my employees – the Rainmakers – to recognize the tremendous progress that we made in 2009, but also to get us all looking forward. 2009 was a hard year for almost every company – especially the first half – but 2010 [...]
There are many ways to build community at a company but one of the best is definitely giving back to the community together. This is the second year we have volunteered at Second Harvest and, as last year, it was great fun. Bagging apples, boxing food and generally enjoying each others company doing something useful.
We have yet another customer win this morning – Dun & Bradstreet. On the heels of last weeks announcement of our partnership with Fidelity, today we’re announcing that we have been selected by D&B to provide business content from the web in their DNBi Risk Management Platform.The contract is for the research engine to provide [...]
Another exciting morning today! This morning Fidelity has announced that it has selected FirstRain as a partner on its new Stock Research Center on Fidelity.com which they launched last week and are announcing today. You can see FirstRain’s spike and volume detection technology at work for yourself if you go here – look for this [...]
In keeping with the FirstRain culture of us competing as teams in athletic races – November 1st the FirstRain Gurgaon team took part in the Airtel Delhi Great Run & Half Marathon, along with 30,000 other runners. The turnout of our team was fabulous, with 28 Rainmakers participating running, including David Cooke from our California [...]
A note from our Gurgaon office: Diwali, the festival of lights was celebrated in the Gurgaon office in a colorful way. The dress code was ethnic Indian dresses as the “fun group” organized a bay decoration competition and also got a few stalls put up by the employees. The ambiance was fun-filled with good food [...]
Guest post: Marty Betz, VP Technology Today, YY and I attended ReadWriteWeb’s Real-Time Web Summit. It was held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, hosted by Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb.com. Like many conferences recently, they’d adopted a structure based on an open, spontaneous agenda which gets filled in by the participants during the [...]
We’ve seen a distinct increase in client interest in Governance over the last couple of months – probably as a result of the increased market volatility and risk. Looking at the pick up from a high level, we’re seeing four topic areas being requested and expanded – and they are requested by pension funds, by [...]
Got email from a client last week really pleased with the information they had found on FirstRain to help them with a campaign. Here’s the story: A small software company selling to a large energy utility. They sell software to help automate and improve customer communications. In this case the sales team was doing a [...]
Regular readers of this blog may remember that the FirstRain team likes to take on physical challenges together – like last year’s AquaBike. Well this year (yesterday) ten of us completed the San Jose Rock And Roll Half Marathon and I am very proud of them all for taking it on and every one of [...]
