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	Phil's Blogservations Tuesday, November 08, 2005 Posted by philgomes 10:38 PM A Milestone For BizXchange A Milestone For BizXchange A friend of mine back home, Chris Haddawy, is the SVP of business development at BizXchange. The company holds dual HQs in Seattle and the SF Bay Area. I met Chris and his wife, Tatiana, some years ago through a mutual friend, über-recruiter Carolyn. I'm writing this 'cause I got a note from Chris today that BizXchange is now #16 out of the top 100 fastest-growing private companies in Washington state, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal (PDF). This would be due to the company's 375% revenue growth since it's founding three years ago — $293k to $1.39M — and customers like Southwest Airlines, 24-Hour Fitness, and a few major sports teams. I realize these numbers might not necessarily impress the group of my readers who glibly throw around the eight-or-nine-figure sums commonly found in wire stories and business periodicals. Get past that. You really gotta hand it to the BizXchange crew for making a business out of barter; money out of microeconomies. Considering their take on brokered exchanges is between 6-7%, it's pretty easy to get a rough idea of the value of bartered goods and services that have changed hands among their members. I know that, at least in the early days, getting folks to consider barter instead of cold-hard-cash must have been like running into the same inch-high curb over and over again. Clearly, businesses large and small are coming around. So, respect goes out to Chris and team! HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes[[dot}]com SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.