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About Cimpress
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411 Concepts
100

The country that Robert Keane started his business in. 

What is France?

100

The Cimpress company's original name.

What is Vistaprint?

100
Extremely contagious infectious disease that emerged out of Wuhan, China. 

What is Covid-19?

100

VC stands for ___. 

What is Venture Capitalist?

100

SWOT stands for ____. 

What is Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats?
200

The company that Robert Keane collaborated/partnered with when launching his startup. 

What is Microsoft?

200

Cimpress is based in this (town), (country). 

What is Dundalk, Ireland?

200

The CEO and founder of Vistaprint. 

What is Robert Keane?

200

SaaS stands for _____.

What is Software as a Service?
200

Rivalry, New Entrants, Substitute Products/Services, Buyer Power and Supplier Power are ____. 

What is Porter's Five Forces?

300

The name of one of the best known and most experienced venture capitalists in Paris that invested in Vistaprint in the late 1990s. 

What is Soffinova?
300

How many people did Cimpress employ globally by 2020?

What is more than 10,000?

300

The name of the independent wealth advisor who is unsure whether or not to reinvest in Cimpress.

What is David Markham?

300

ROIC stands for ____. 

What is Return on Invested Capital?

300

Profit = ____ - _____. 

What is Revenue - Costs/Expenses?

400

This is the reason Vistaprint attracted venture capitalists in 1997 and why they needed to pivot their original business model and redefine themselves in 2000. 

What is the internet/becoming an online service?

400

The year that Vistaprint went public. 

What is 2005?

400

One of the largest alternative investment management firms in the world; the brainchild of investor Leon Black (now chairman and CEO) and co-founders Josh Harris and Marc Rowan (both senior managing directors).

What is Apollo Global Management?

400

CAGR stands for ____. 

What is compound annual growth rate?

400
____ is based on promise. 

What is Profit?

500

This is the event that lasted more than four months that almost killed Robert Keane's startup in late 1995.

What is the longest-running strike of the French Postal Service?

500

How does Cimpress describe their customer value proposition?

What is "empowering people to make an impression through individually meaningful, personalized physical products"?

500

The name of the American company that Robert Keane planned to replicate the business model of in France. 

What is Paper Direct?

500

Producing small orders of custom products that have the reliability, quality and affordability of mass-produced goods.

What is Mass Customization? 

500

The Four Actions Framework to implement Blue Ocean Strategy consist of ____, ____, ____, and ____. 

What is Eliminate, Reduce, Create, and Raise?