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Losses have not scaled as revenues have. A cursory look at the financials shows a management team making prudent decisions: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1353283/0001047469120...

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Most of that is attributable to a drop in sales & marketing expenses from 69% of turnover in 2010 to 60% for 2011 and 2012. If we scale their 2011 and 2012 S&M expenses up to 69% their net margin for the three years becomes {-21%, -14%, -16%} instead of its present {-21%, -6%, -9%}. The rest is largely cutting R&D. (The 2% blip for FYE 2012 is attributable to other expenses, which "consists primarily of the changes in the fair value of our preferred stock warrants, interest expense on our outstanding debt and interest income on our cash balances" - IPO-related.)

Given that they expect "operating expenses to increase over the next several years as we hire additional personnel, particularly in sales and marketing," I don't know if that is sustainable and thus indicative of any strategic brilliance.

Indeed - nice to see some numbers, I guess this is the advantage of the P in IPO...

for now.. Taibbi wrote about a new law that exempts reporting for 5 years

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