We’ve had a really busy few months here at Vumero.com.
 
Relaunching Vumero 2013
We’ll soon be re-launching the Vumero.com brand as part of our global expansion in 2013. We’ve secured long-term major international professional services partnership/s that will help turbocharge the Vumero Community and value-proposition. We’re transforming the way Vumero is delivered and experienced by our Accounting, Private Equity, Finance and Corporate Clients. Expertise in Finance and Financial Modelling will always be important parts of the Vumero vision – we’re just taking it to the next level with a faster, deeper, more trusted professional offering. Each partnership and enhancement will be announced over the coming months. Existing Vumero professionals will have a smooth transition to our improved online marketplace technology platform.
 
If you have any further ideas or suggestions – we’d love to hear them at info@vumero.com

ModeOff 2012 is delighted to welcome Professor Simon Benninga as judge for the Finals of the inaugural 2012 Financial Modeling World Championships to be held in New York on 1st December 2012.
 
Professor Benninga is among the world’s best known and most influential figures in International Finance and Financial Modeling. He is Professor of Finance at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Professor of Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His Financial Modeling textbooks have become the standard modeling text for finance students and professionals worldwide – covering corporate finance, portfolio modeling, options, bonds, advanced Excel techniques and VBA. For over 30 years Professor Benninga has taught at many of the world’s most prestigious international business schools and has advised many leading private and public Finance institutions including the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, PWC and New York Institute of Finance.
 
Professor Benninga has dedicated his life to teaching and solving real-world business problems with financial models and spreadsheets. It’s only fitting that he judge the inaugural 2012 Financial Modeling World Championship as he continues to inspire the next generation of finance leaders. ModelOff, Vumero and all the event partners are excited to have him on board.
 

 
 
For more information on ModelOff visit www.modeloff.com or contact info@modeloff.com

Vumero, together with its event partners, are delighted to announce the launch of ModelOff – the 2012 Financial Modeling World Championships. (www.modeloff.com)

ModelOff is a fun, innovative and professional competition that celebrates the highest standard of finance and financial modeling excellence among students and young professionals worldwide. After months of planning, the ultimate financial modeling championship is here:

• Two online rounds (29th September; 27th October 2012)
• Live Finals Championship event held in New York, USA (1st December 2012)

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We’ve been busy improving the Vumero experience over the past few months. We thank our clients and Finance experts across a variety of timezones and countries for their valuable feedback and suggestions (and many late night calls and coffees to help!). We’ve rolled out new changes to make it even easier to hire and manage global Finance experts for important projects and transactions. In a nutshell:
 
Trusted Quality
We continue to focus heavily on trust – among the most important tasks of any online marketplace. We’ve introduced more comprehensive profile pages, experienced Finance expert verifications and made it simpler to manage projects through the Vumero platform.
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Vumero has recently been announced as a featured startup in the Microsoft BizSpark Program.

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It starts with an Idea

I first met Johann Odou and John Persico in June 2011 when they approached me for coffee at Deloitte. They told me they had recently quit their jobs and had a vision that global Professional Services could be more valuable if crowdsourced. They saw opportunities to make professional services more accessible, transparent and affordable to Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs. They saw a major gap in the market between predominantly price-driven online marketplaces such as Freelancer and Odesk and the big professional services firms such as Deloitte.
 
I was impressed with the vision of these two aspiring entrepreneurs and distinctively remember them making the comment – “Deloitte Digital was the only place who would “get” what we are trying to achieve in online Professional Services”. To me it’s a great compliment when the outside Community recognised the vision and culture we have created here at Deloitte Digital.
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Bluewire Media recently published an article written by Vumero CEO, John Persico.

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http://www.bluewiremedia.com.au/blog/2012/03/89-web-tools-for-business/