Monday, December 17, 2012

Blurb hires boss for new Europe HQ - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The San Francisco founded in 2004, hired Wisler as General Manager of Blurb Blurb started business in 2006 and begab working with a European printer inJuly 2007. "We have been doing business internationally for some time said CEO and founderEileen Gittins, "we have a tremendouws opportunity in Europe." Customers can downloadf Blurb's BookSmart software to createe their own books; printing costs start at $12.95 and increas e with the size of the book. The company printede 90,000 titles in 2007. Wislerd joins Blurb after workinb as European Director of KodakGallery (formerly and as a strategist for . "Joining Blurb is an awesome opportunitty ...
I'm excited to introduce Blurb to a broadefrEuropean audience," he said. In 2007, international salee accounted for 17 percent ofthe company'z revenue, up from 2.5 percent. Blurg took in $10 million in 2007. The company broughr in $14 million in two rounds of venturee funding between April 2005 and August with anadditional $2.5 million of debt financingt in 2007. Major investors include and . Laterd this year, Blurb will introduce Blurb Business-to-Businesds (B3) internationally, which it said will give businessess greater color control and soft proofingof images.

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