FEBRUARY 2010 INVESTOR RELATIONS UPDATE

Happy 2010 from The Blueshirt Group. We celebrated the tenth anniversary of our firm in December 2009, and since that time we have had the two best months of new business activity in our history. Blueshirt remains the clear leader in technology IPOs backed by top investment banks, and we now have eight clients that have filed S-1 registration statements. In addition to IPO clients, our firm has retained a strong base of public, private and media clients, and we added a number of exciting new companies during a very challenging 2009 for the market.

We enter 2010 with more than 45 clients and believe that our strong experience with IPOs, excellent references from existing clients and a unique high-touch, full-service model is resonating with companies seeking to conduct best-in-class investor relations programs. 2010 is off to a busy start for the financial community, and we look forward to a very exciting year ahead.


IPO CLIENTS AND COMPANIES IN REGISTRATION


Blueshirt is representing the most recent technology IPO - QuinStreet (NASDAQ: QNST) - and supported the IPO efforts of the two companies that reignited the tech IPO market in late 2009 -- OpenTable (NASDAQ: OPEN) and LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM). We currently have eight clients that have filed S-1 registration statements with the SEC. Please visit www.sec.gov for more information on any of these companies:


PRIVATE COMPANY AND VC CLIENTS


In addition to our work with public companies, Blueshirt continues to provide investor and media relations services to a number of exciting private companies, venture capital firms and hedge funds. These include:

Altierre (Wireless Retail Platform)
Art.com (e-Commerce)
Atlas (Business Services)
Industry Ventures (Secondary VC)
Force10 Networks (Network Equipment)
Lighthouse Partners (Fund-of-Funds)
Maveron (Consumer VC)
ServiceSource (Maintenance Renewals)
Standish Management (VC Financials)
xTera (Optical Transport)
Zoom Systems (Automated Retail)


SMALLER CAP COMPANY NEWS


While we may be best known for our IPO work, Blueshirt began providing IR services to several interesting smaller companies in 2009, representing a number of verticals. These include:

Access Plans (Marketing Services, Ticker/OTC: APNC)
Electrovaya (Cleantech, Ticker/TSX: EFL)
Geeknet (Tech Communities, Ticker/LNUX)
Local.com (Local search, Ticker/LOCM)
Procera Networks (Deep Packet Inspection, Ticker/AMEX: PKT)


MEDIA COVERAGE


Blueshirt's media group has generated significant coverage for its clients in the business and venture press (and the firm got a nice mention in Barron's 2010 IPO outlook as well). A few clips are below:

12/21/09

"The class of 2010 will be of very high quality," says Alex Wellins, a managing director with the Blueshirt Group, a San Francisco-based investor-relations firm focused on tech. "These are management teams that have either been through IPOs or have vast experience with public markets." His firm has four clients that have registered to go public and four more preparing to file.
For full story click here: link (subscription may be required)

11/18/09

Venture firm Maveron opens San Francisco office.
Full story: link

11/16/09

Goodbye, grocery store price tags. How a case of midnight munchies sparked a price-tag revolution.
Full story: link


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