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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 10, 2008.
Registration No. 333-          
 
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
Form S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
Intelius Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
 
         
Delaware   7374   81-0590432
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
 
500 108th Avenue NE, 25th Floor
Bellevue, Washington 98004
(425) 974-6100
(Address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)
 
Naveen K. Jain
Chief Executive Officer and President
500 108th Avenue NE, 25th Floor
Bellevue, Washington 98004
(425) 974-6100
(Name, address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
Copies to:
 
     
Mike Liles, Jr., Esq.
Walter M. Maas III, Esq.
Karr Tuttle Campbell PS
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 2900
Seattle, Washington 98101
Telephone: (206) 223-1313
Facsimile: (206) 682-7100
  Horace L. Nash, Esq.
Laird H. Simons, III, Esq.
Scott J. Leichtner, Esq.
Fenwick & West LLP
801 California Street
Mountain View, California 94041
Telephone: (650) 988-8500
Facsimile: (650) 938-5200
 
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.
 
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act, as amended, check the following box.  o
 
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o
 
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o
 
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  o
 
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
 
                     
Title of Each Class of
    Proposed Maximum
     
Securities to be Registered     Aggregate Offering Price (1)(2)     Amount of Registration Fee
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share
    $ 143,750,000       $ 5,650  
                     
 
(1) Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act.
 
(2) Includes offering price of shares that the underwriters have the option to purchase to cover over-allotments, if any.
 
The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment that specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to such Section 8(a), may determine.
 


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The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is declared effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.
 
 
Subject to Completion, Dated January 10, 2008
 
Intelius Inc.
 
(INTELIUS LOGO)
 
           Shares
Common Stock
 
 
This is the initial public offering of Intelius Inc. We are offering           shares of our common stock. We anticipate that the initial public offering price will be between $      and $      per share. We have applied to list our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “INTL.”
 
Investing in our common stock involves risk.  See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 11.
 
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
 
                 
    Per Share     Total  
 
Public offering price
  $                $             
Underwriting discounts and commissions
  $       $    
Proceeds, before expenses, to Intelius Inc. 
  $       $  
 
 
We have granted the underwriters the right to purchase up to                additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments.
 
Deutsche Bank Securities Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
 
CIBC World Markets Cowen and Company
 
The date of this prospectus is                     2008.


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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
 
This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. You should read the following summary together with the more detailed information appearing in this prospectus, including our consolidated financial statements and related notes, and the risk factors beginning on page 11, before deciding whether to purchase shares of our common stock. Unless the context otherwise requires, we use the terms “Intelius,” “we,” “us” and “our” in this prospectus to refer to Intelius Inc. and its subsidiaries.
 
Overview
 
Intelius® is a leading Information Commerce company that provides intelligence services to consumers over the Internet. Our protection services, verification services and information services help our customers manage personal and information security risks that affect their private, professional and social lives, and help them find and verify information about friends, customers and businesses. We generate revenues primarily from consumers who purchase our intelligence services on a pay-per-use basis and from online advertisers that provide targeted and relevant offers to our customers.
 
We have developed a proprietary service delivery platform that applies our sophisticated heuristics and analytics technologies to publicly and commercially available data to provide our customers with actionable information. Our accurate, timely and useful intelligence services allow our customers to make important decisions about people, businesses and assets.
 
We sell our intelligence services through our network of owned and operated websites, including our primary website, www.Intelius.com. Our Intelius network was one of the top 100 most visited web properties in the U.S. for November 2007 according to comScore Media Metrix, a leading Internet audience measurement firm. We have established relationships with leading online portals and directories, including Idearc, InfoSpace, MSN, Yahoo! and YELLOWPAGES.COM, that market our services on their websites and direct visitors to our websites.
 
Since our inception in January 2003, our intelligence services have been purchased by over four million customer accounts. We have experienced rapid growth and have increased our revenues from $18.1 million in 2004 to $54.7 million in 2006 and $60.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2007.
 
Industry Overview
 
The Internet has become an increasingly important medium for commerce and entertainment, and an important source of information about people and businesses. Consumers are increasingly using free and paid Internet services to contact acquaintances, gather information about people and businesses, and expand social and professional networks. According to comScore Media Metrix, the number of online searches in the U.S. in November 2007 reached approximately 13.9 billion, and Business Week, a leading business publication, reported in July 2007 that over 30% of all online searches are for information about people. The Internet also has a wealth of detailed information on commercial products and services, which has been a key contributor to the growth and penetration of the Internet as a retail commerce channel. As online commerce has grown and consumer media consumption has migrated to the Internet, advertisers have begun shifting a greater proportion of their marketing budgets to the Internet. According to IDC, a leading independent research firm,


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online advertising spending in the U.S. reached $16.9 billion in 2006, an increase of 35% versus 2005, and is projected to increase to $31.4 billion by 2011.
 
In today’s society, individuals and businesses often must make critical decisions based on limited or fragmented information. At the same time, the pace of decision-making has accelerated, and risks associated with decisions have increased, as society has become more mobile and contacts traditionally based upon personal referrals have been replaced by more impersonal networks. In response to these developments, consumers and organizations are increasingly turning to the Internet for intelligence services in order to make better informed decisions about the people, businesses and assets with which they interact. Intelligence services provide consumers and organizations with information to help them identify, monitor, interpret and respond to specific situations and their environment. Intelligence services range from basic intelligence information, such as phone numbers and addresses, to advanced intelligence services, such as background screening, employment verification, fraud protection and credit monitoring.
 
Sources of Information
 
A wealth of existing information can be used to provide intelligence services that combat fraud, manage information security and mitigate personal safety risks. This information falls into the following categories:
 
  •  Public Records.  Public records consist of information that is maintained by government organizations and is generally available, such as property title and lien documents, birth and death certificates, business records, Securities and Exchange Commission filings and court records.
 
  •  Publicly Available Information.  Publicly available information consists of online and offline information that is generally available but is not maintained by a government agency, such as names, addresses and telephone numbers of individuals and businesses, professional licensing and trade organization information, press releases and newspaper articles.
 
  •  Commercial Records.  Commercial records consist of records maintained by enterprises that are available for purchase, such as mailing and telemarketing lists, phone connect and disconnect information, and business profile data.
 
Challenges Faced by Existing Intelligence Services
 
Despite the wealth of available information, most free and paid intelligence services face significant challenges and frequently fail to provide consumers and enterprises with valuable, accurate and timely information about people, businesses and assets. These challenges include:
 
  •  limited breadth of data sources and information;
 
  •  failure to integrate data from multiple sources;
 
  •  failure to cleanse out-of-date or conflicting data;
 
  •  lack of advanced technologies to analyze data;
 
  •  lack of relevant information for specific decisions;
 
  •  lack of automation and efficiency; and
 
  •  failure to provide quality services at an affordable price.


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The Intelius Solution
 
We have developed a proprietary platform from which we deliver accurate, useful and timely intelligence services to consumers over the Internet. Our platform dynamically accesses, collects and integrates data from thousands of online and offline data sources and uses sophisticated heuristics and analytics technologies to cleanse, verify and integrate this data in real time to provide our customers with actionable information. Our intelligence services, which include the license to use our proprietary software to access our platform, help our customers make important decisions about people, businesses and assets. We sell our intelligence services on a pay-per-use basis and enable online advertisers to provide targeted and relevant offers to our customers. Key elements of our solution include:
 
Broad Portfolio of Intelligence Services.  We offer over 100 intelligence services, including Background Check, Phone Number Verification, People Search and Property and Neighborhood Report, that address a variety of consumer and business demands. Our services provide consumers with valuable intelligence to address potential safety and security concerns, manage and protect their personal information, and locate businesses, family, friends and colleagues. We also provide businesses with tools and services to mitigate risks, reduce costs, increase efficiency and address regulatory requirements.
 
Compelling Value and User Experience.  We deliver a high-quality user experience by delivering valuable services, an intuitive user interface and dedicated customer service at affordable prices. We sell our intelligence services on a pay-per-use basis at price points designed to appeal to a wide cross-section of consumers and to encourage repeat purchase activity. We provide our customers instant access to our services over the Internet through an easy-to-navigate user interface.
 
Useful Information About People, Businesses and Assets.  Our intelligence services are based on a comprehensive collection of information about people, businesses and assets. The innovative technologies built into our platform enable us to dynamically access, manage, integrate, cleanse and validate massive amounts of data in real time so that we can provide timely, useful and accurate information that allows our customers to make informed decisions.
 
Proprietary Technologies and Extensible Intelligence Platform.  Our heuristics and analytics technologies verify and augment multiple terabytes of data from a myriad of sources—in disparate formats and varying degrees of accuracy and completeness—so that we can make inferences and predictions based on this data. Our intelligence platform gives us the flexibility to develop and quickly bring to market new service offerings based on our existing technologies without incurring significant incremental development costs.
 
Security and System Reliability.  Leveraging standards-based technologies, we have implemented industry-leading security measures and innovative security technologies to enhance customer confidence when they are verifying information or providing it to us. Furthermore, our infrastructure is designed to handle expanding volumes of customer visits, transactions and service offerings in an efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant manner.
 
Large Audience and Attractive Customer Base.  In November 2007, our portfolio of websites that attract users interested in obtaining intelligence services drew over 10.2 million unique visitors in the U.S., according to comScore Media Metrix. In addition to the visitors who come to our websites directly, we draw visitors through our relationships with leading Internet portals, such as MSN and Yahoo!, that offer our services to their users and direct visitors to our websites. We believe that visitors to our websites appeal to advertisers because they have attractive demographic characteristics and they have demonstrated the ability and willingness to purchase goods and services online.


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Our Strategy
 
Our objective is to be the leading provider of intelligence services. Our strategy for achieving this goal includes the following initiatives:
 
Expand Our Customer Base.  We intend to grow our customer base and reach a broader consumer audience by developing our existing distribution relationships with leading Internet companies, establishing new distribution relationships, and adding new websites to our portfolio of websites that attract consumers of intelligence services.
 
Expand Our Portfolio of Service Offerings.  We plan to continue to innovate, add data sources to our platform, leverage our advanced technologies to develop new intelligence service offerings for consumers and businesses, and enhance the depth and functionality of our existing offerings.
 
Increase Focus on Online Advertising Opportunities.  We plan to increase our revenues from online advertising, particularly post-transaction advertising, by adding new advertisers, expanding relationships with existing advertisers, introducing new forms of online advertising and extending advertising across our portfolio of websites.
 
Increase Repeat Purchase Activity.  We believe repeat customers are more likely to access our websites directly than are new customers, resulting in more profitable transactions. We intend to increase repeat purchase activity by extending the breadth and quality of our service offerings, developing new service bundles with promotional pricing and by promoting our Club Intelius loyalty program while continuously improving our customer experience.
 
Build a Recognized Brand.  We intend to build a recognized brand through advertising and marketing initiatives, including online advertising, print and outdoor advertising, trade shows, viral marketing and word-of-mouth. In addition to raising public awareness, we believe that these brand-building initiatives will enhance our sales and profitability over the long term by attracting more direct traffic to our website.
 
Expand Through Strategic Acquisitions.  We intend to pursue acquisitions of relevant domain names, as well as acquisitions of companies with complementary customers, technology and services, in order to augment our customer base, increase traffic to our websites, enhance awareness of our brand, add new services and provide new sources of revenue.
 
Risk Factors
 
We are subject to many risks and uncertainties that could materially harm our business or inhibit our strategic plans. Before investing in our common stock, you should carefully consider the following risks, along with the risk factors described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” starting on page 11, and other information provided throughout this prospectus:
 
  •  Our quarterly operating results will likely continue to fluctuate, and if we fail to meet or exceed the expectations of securities analysts, the trading price of our common stock may decline suddenly and substantially.
 
  •  Our limited operating history and the ongoing changes in our business strategy make it difficult to evaluate our business.
 
  •  We currently depend upon our relationships with search engines and other leading Internet companies to attract most of the visitors to our websites, and changes in these relationships could harm our revenues and operating results.


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  •  Our operating results depend significantly on advertising revenues generated from a limited number of advertising relationships, and any failure to maintain these relationships could negatively impact our operating results.
 
  •  We are currently the subject of a Federal Trade Commission investigation regarding our compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and we do not know what the outcome of the investigation may be.
 
  •  If the data that we obtain from government and private sources becomes unavailable or more expensive, our costs will increase and our operating margin will decline.
 
  •  We are subject to significant government regulation and changes in the laws and regulations governing access to public information and the collection or sale of publicly-available information could make it more difficult for us to conduct business.
 
  •  Our corporate image might be impaired as a result of negative publicity about our use of personal information in our service offerings.
 
Corporate Information
 
We are incorporated in the State of Delaware. Our principal executive offices are located at 500 108th Avenue NE, 25th Floor, Bellevue, Washington 98004 and our telephone number is (425) 974-6100. Our primary website address is www.Intelius.com. The information on, or that can be accessed through, this website or our other websites is not part of this prospectus.
 
Intelius and the Intelius logo are our registered trademarks, and we have an application for registration pending for our “Live in the know.” trademark. This prospectus also includes trademarks that belong to third parties.


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The Offering
 
Common stock offered by Intelius           shares
 
Common stock to be outstanding after this offering           shares
 
Use of proceeds We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital and other general corporate purposes. We may also use a portion of the net proceeds for acquisitions, but we do not have any agreements or commitments for acquisitions at this time.
 
Dividend policy We currently do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock.
 
Proposed NASDAQ Global Market symbol INTL
 
The number of shares of our common stock to be outstanding after this offering is based on 23,555,884 shares of our common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2007. The number of shares of our common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2007, and all other outstanding share amounts throughout this prospectus (unless otherwise indicated), reflect the conversion of all outstanding shares of preferred stock into 1,667,500 shares of common stock upon the completion of this offering.
 
The number of shares of our common stock outstanding at December 31, 2007 does not include:
 
  •  3,321,725 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding options at a weighted average exercise price of $      per share;
 
  •  320,000 unvested and outstanding restricted stock units; and
 
  •  6,296,849 shares remaining available for issuance pursuant to future awards under our 2005 Stock Incentive Plan.
 
Unless otherwise indicated, this prospectus reflects and assumes:
 
  •  no exercise by the underwriters of their over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional           shares of common stock;
 
  •  the amendment of our certificate of incorporation in January 2008 to increase our authorized capital stock and to redesignate all outstanding shares of Class A common stock as common stock and to authorize 10,000,000 shares of “blank check” preferred stock; and
 
  •  the filing of our restated certificate of incorporation in Delaware upon the completion of this offering.


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Summary Consolidated Financial Data
 
The following tables summarize the consolidated financial data for our business. The consolidated statements of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The consolidated statement of operations data for the period from January 7, 2003 (inception) to December 31, 2003 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements not included in this prospectus. The consolidated statements of operations data for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, and the consolidated balance sheet data as of September 30, 2007, have been derived from our unaudited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The unaudited consolidated financial statements include, in the opinion of management, all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, that management considers necessary for the fair presentation of the financial information set forth in those consolidated financial statements. You should read this summary consolidated financial data in conjunction with the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and our consolidated financial statements, related notes and other financial information included elsewhere in this prospectus. The consolidated financial data in this section is not intended to replace the consolidated financial statements and is qualified in its entirety by the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in this prospectus. Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected in the future.
 
                                                 
    Period from
                               
    January 7
                               
    (inception) to
                      Nine Months
 
    December 31,
    Year Ended December 31,     Ended September 30,  
    2003     2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
                            (unaudited)  
    (in thousands, except per share data)  
 
Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:
                                               
Revenues
  $ 5,313     $ 18,122     $ 44,040     $ 54,720     $ 39,932     $ 60,238  
Costs and expenses:
                                               
Content and support
    1,150       3,162       5,262       6,752       4,426       9,974  
Sales and marketing
    3,067       11,015       26,415       35,545       25,065       34,635  
Product development
    203       825       1,064       1,490       991       2,116  
General and administrative
    1,620       1,433       1,831       3,916       2,674       4,299  
                                                 
Total costs and expenses
    6,040       16,435       34,572       47,703       33,156       51,024  
                                                 
Operating income (loss)
    (727 )     1,687       9,468       7,017       6,776       9,214  
Interest and other expenses
                                  (106 )
Interest income
    6       9       39       147       109       117  
                                                 
Income (loss) before income taxes
    (721 )     1,696       9,507       7,164       6,885       9,225  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    (241 )     556       3,223       2,647       2,502       3,093  
                                                 
Net income (loss)
  $ (480 )   $ 1,140     $ 6,284     $ 4,517     $ 4,383     $ 6,132  
                                                 
Net income (loss) per share(1):
                                               
Basic
  $ (0.03 )   $ 0.06     $ 0.31     $ 0.22     $ 0.21     $ 0.30  
Diluted
  $ (0.03 )   $ 0.05     $ 0.28     $ 0.20     $ 0.19     $ 0.27  
Shares used in calculation of basic and diluted net income (loss) per share:
                                               
Basic
    17,534       20,000       20,203       20,505       20,500       20,548  
Diluted
    17,534       22,009       22,480       22,869       22,836       23,122  
 
 
(1) See Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements for an explanation of the method used to calculate basic and diluted net income (loss) per share.
 
The following table presents our summary consolidated balance sheet data as of September 30, 2007:
 
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  •  on a pro forma as adjusted basis to reflect the conversion of all outstanding shares of preferred stock into 1,667,500 shares of common stock upon the completion of this offering and to give effect to our receipt of net proceeds from our sale of the           shares of common stock offered by us at an assumed initial public offering price of $      per share, which is the midpoint of the range shown on the cover of this prospectus, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and our estimated offering expenses.
 
                 
    September 30, 2007  
          Pro Forma as
 
    Actual     Adjusted(1)  
    (unaudited)
 
    (in thousands)  
 
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:
               
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 9,063          
Working capital
    11,101          
Total assets
    31,855          
Total long-term liabilities
    356          
Total stockholders’ equity
    23,138          
 
 
(1) Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $      per share would increase or decrease, respectively, our cash and cash equivalents, total assets and total stockholders’ equity by approximately $      million, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions payable by us.
 
Other Financial and Operating Data (unaudited)
 
Adjusted EBITDA
 
We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income plus the provision (benefit) for income taxes, depreciation, amortization of purchased intangible assets and stock-based compensation, plus interest expense (income) and other expenses (income). Adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of liquidity calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or U.S. GAAP, and should be viewed as a supplement to—not a substitute for—our results of operations presented on the basis of U.S. GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA does not purport to represent cash flow provided by, or used in, operating activities as defined by U.S. GAAP. Our statements of cash flows included elsewhere in this prospectus present our cash flow activity in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA is not necessarily comparable to similarly-titled measures reported by other companies.
 
We prepare Adjusted EBITDA to eliminate the impact of items that we do not consider indicative of our core operating performance. You are encouraged to evaluate these adjustments and the reasons we consider them appropriate for supplemental analysis. Our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an implication that our future results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items.
 
We believe Adjusted EBITDA is useful to investors in evaluating our operating performance for the following reasons:
 
  •  Adjusted EBITDA is widely used by investors to measure a company’s operating performance without regard to items such as interest expense and income, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and stock-based compensation, which can vary substantially from company to company depending upon accounting methods and book value of assets, capital structure and the method by which assets were acquired;
 
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  •  we believe Adjusted EBITDA is an important indicator of our operational strength and the performance of our business because it provides a link between profitability and operating cash flow in that it disregards the impact of certain operating-related balance sheet changes such as the timing of the collections of receivables and disbursements of payables; and
 
  •  we adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R), “Share-Based Payment,” on January 1, 2006 and recorded approximately $725,000 in stock-based compensation expense for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 as well as approximately $517,000 and $1,026,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, respectively. Prior to January 1, 2006, we accounted for stock-based compensation using the intrinsic value method under Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, “Accounting For Stock Issued To Employees,” which resulted in zero stock-based compensation expense. By comparing our Adjusted EBITDA in different historical periods our investors can evaluate our operating results without the additional variations of stock-based compensation expense, which is not necessarily comparable from year to year due to changes in accounting treatment and is a non-cash expense that is not a key measure of our operations.
 
Our management uses Adjusted EBITDA:
 
  •  as a measure of operating performance, because it does not include the impact of items not directly resulting from our core operations;
 
  •  for planning purposes, including the preparation of our annual operating budget;
 
  •  to allocate resources to enhance the financial performance of our business;
 
  •  as a metric for evaluating the performance and determining the compensation of our executive team;
 
  •  to evaluate the effectiveness of our business strategies; and
 
  •  in communications with our Board of Directors concerning our financial performance.
 
We understand that although it is frequently used by investors and securities analysts in their evaluation of companies, Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results of operations as reported under U.S. GAAP. Some of these limitations are:
 
  •  Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect our cash expenditures or future requirements for capital expenditures or other contractual commitments;
 
  •  Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs;
 
  •  Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect interest expense or income;
 
  •  Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect cash requirements for state and federal income taxes;
 
  •  although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements; and
 
  •  other companies in our industry may calculate Adjusted EBITDA differently than we do, limiting its usefulness as a comparative measure.


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A reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to net income (loss), the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure, for each of the fiscal periods indicated, is as follows:
 
                                                 
    Period from
                               
    January 7
                               
    (inception) to
                      Nine Months
 
    December 31,
    Year Ended December 31,     Ended September 30,  
    2003     2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
    (in thousands)  
 
Net income (loss)
  $  (480 )   $ 1,140     $ 6,284     $ 4,517     $  4,383     $ 6,132  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    (241 )     556       3,223       2,647       2,502       3,093  
Amortization of intangible assets
    10       38       596       2,283       1,572       2,262  
Depreciation
    22       93       194       356       257       498  
Stock-based compensation
                      725       517       1,026  
Interest and other expenses (income), net
    (6 )     (9 )     (39 )     (147 )     (109 )     (11 )
                                                 
Adjusted EBITDA
  $ (695 )   $ 1,818     $ 10,258     $ 10,381     $ 9,122     $ 13,000  
                                                 


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RISK FACTORS
 
Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with the other information in this prospectus, including our consolidated financial statements and related notes, before deciding whether to purchase shares of our common stock. If any of the following risks is realized, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could be materially and adversely affected. In that event, the price of our common stock could decline and you could lose part or all of your investment.
 
Risks Related to Our Business
 
Our quarterly operating results have fluctuated in the past and are likely to continue to fluctuate, and if we fail to meet or exceed the expectations of securities analysts, the trading price of our common stock may decline suddenly and substantially.
 
Our quarterly results of operations have fluctuated in the past and are likely to fluctuate in the future as a result of many factors that are outside of our control. For example, our net income decreased from $1.3 million in the first quarter of 2007 to $740,000 in the second quarter of 2007, and then increased significantly in the third quarter of 2007 to $4.1 million. If our quarterly results of operations do not meet or exceed the expectations of securities analysts or investors, the price of our common stock could decline suddenly and substantially. Factors that may cause our operating results to fluctuate include the following:
 
  •  the addition or termination of business relationships through which we acquire customers or sell advertising, or changes in the pricing or structures of these relationships;
 
  •  variable expenditures for customer acquisition;
 
  •  lower than anticipated levels of traffic to our websites, or reduced effectiveness in attracting customers that are likely to purchase our services;
 
  •  changes in federal, state or local regulation affecting our business or the businesses of our advertising partners or other vendors;
 
  •  investments in infrastructure and personnel to facilitate future growth may impact short-term results;
 
  •  system downtimes or other service interruptions that prevent us from selling our services to our customers;
 
  •  unavailability of, or increased pricing for, data used to provide our intelligence services;
 
  •  seasonality of our business;
 
  •  introduction of new competitors or competitive service offerings; and
 
  •  the timing of costs to develop or acquire new service offerings or businesses.
 
We believe that our quarterly revenues and results of operations are likely to fluctuate significantly in future periods, and that period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be meaningful.
 
Our limited operating history and ongoing changes in our business strategy make it difficult to evaluate our business.
 
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difficult for you to evaluate our future prospects and the merits of investing in our common stock by evaluating our past performance. We have previously made, and may in the future make, additional changes in our sales and marketing approach or service offerings as we continue to develop our business strategy, and any such changes may result in short- or long-term changes in our operating results. For example, we have recently significantly increased our focus on advertising, which along with other new business strategies that we may implement, may result in competition with some of the websites with which we have advertising relationships. This could result in a decrease in revenues as we implement any such strategy. Recently, our focus on post-transaction advertising has positively impacted our operating results, the continuation of which cannot be assured. You should consider our business and prospects in light of the risks and difficulties that we may encounter as our business strategy evolves. We may be unable to address these risks and difficulties successfully, which could harm our business and operating results and cause the trading price of our common stock to decline.
 
We currently attract most of the visitors to our websites through our relationships with search engines and other leading Internet companies, and changes in these relationships could harm our revenues and operating results.
 
We currently attract most of the visitors to our websites through our relationships with third-party websites, including Idearc, InfoSpace, MSN, Yahoo! and YELLOWPAGES.COM, and search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo! that feature our services on their websites through links or that advertise our services. Establishing new advertising relationships has been a significant contributor to increases in our revenues and net income in the past, and if we fail to establish new online advertising relationships or expand existing relationships in the future, our operating results could be harmed. Conversely, one or more of these companies may terminate or decide not to renew their relationship with us, or change their business focus in a way that harms our business by providing fewer visitors or introducing competitive services. For example, in the second quarter of 2006, a website elected not to renew its advertising relationship with us, and our traffic and revenues declined as a result. Moreover, some of our agreements with third-party websites and search engines are terminable by these parties with little or no notice. If we have fewer visitors to our websites, we may have lower sales of our services.
 
A website or search engine that displays advertisements for our services or that offers our services through a link to our websites may choose to move these advertisements or links to a less prominent place on its website, in which case the volume of traffic that the website or search engine generates for us will decrease. For example, in 2006, Yahoo! moved the link to our People Search service off the primary Yahoo! homepage. Similarly, the search engines that direct traffic to our websites both through algorithmic search results produced by the search engine and by purchased listings on the search engine’s website may modify their search algorithms in ways that make our service appear less prominently or frequently in search results, or may establish or change the eligibility rules for purchasing listings that may require us to change how we offer our services.
 
One or more third-party websites may attempt to charge more for advertisements or links, may charge more for purchased listings or may otherwise attempt to restructure their pricing relationship with us (for example, from revenue sharing to cost-per-click pricing of advertisements). In addition, the prices for keyword advertising may increase due to market factors, such as the increase in popularity of Internet advertising which could lead to competition for scarce advertising slots. In any of these circumstances, our operating expenses may increase, leading to a reduced operating margin, or traffic to our websites could decrease and our revenues could decline.


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Our operating results depend significantly on online advertising revenues that are generated from a limited number of advertising relationships. Losing these relationships could harm our operating results.
 
We generate most of our advertising revenues from the sale of online advertisements to a limited number of companies, particularly with respect to our post-transaction advertising where we currently rely on one key relationship. These companies can terminate or modify these relationships on short notice and there is no guarantee that we could establish comparable new relationships with other companies on a timely basis, if at all. If our relationship with the company that we currently rely on with respect to our post-transaction advertising were to be terminated and could not be replaced, it would likely have a significant impact on our operating results due to the significant contribution to our current and future overall profitability from this relationship. In addition, our ability to increase or maintain advertising revenues from our advertising relationships largely depends upon the number of visitors to our websites and the number of customers who transact with our advertisers. We must increase traffic and transactions in order to increase our advertising revenues.
 
Internet advertising approaches are changing, and if our customer base or technology does not evolve to meet the needs of our advertising relationships, our advertising revenues would decline. In addition, our advertising revenues have fluctuated in the past, and are likely to fluctuate in the future, due to changes in the online advertising market, including extreme fluctuations in online advertising spending patterns and advertising rates. In addition, Internet advertisements may be used to distribute viruses over the Internet. If this practice becomes more prevalent, it could result in consumers becoming less inclined to click through online advertisements, which could adversely affect the demand for Internet advertising.
 
We are currently the subject of a Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, investigation regarding our compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or FCRA, and we do not know what the outcome of the investigation may be.
 
In November 2006, we received an inquiry from the FTC in the form of a Civil Investigative Demand regarding compliance with the FCRA. Over the next several months, we responded to this inquiry, as well as to follow-up inquiries, by answering questions and providing numerous documents to the FTC. Our representatives also met with FTC staff in August 2007 to respond to these and additional questions. We have received no additional requests for information since responding to the last follow-up inquiry in the late summer of 2007. At the conclusion of its investigation, the FTC may impose monetary penalties or other restrictions on us, which could have a material adverse impact on our business.
 
The FCRA is applicable to certain of our enterprise screening services. We do not know whether the FTC will take the view that the FCRA is also applicable to our delivery of certain consumer intelligence services. A determination by the FTC that the FCRA covers our delivery of these consumer services, if sustained, could have a material adverse effect on our business. Additionally, a potential employer, such as a consumer who wishes to hire a nanny or gardener, may attempt to avoid complying with the FCRA by using our consumer Background Check service to perform a background check on potential hires rather than using our Employment Screening service, which is designed to comply with the FCRA. The FTC may take action designed to address this potential misuse of our services, including the imposition of monetary penalties, which also could have a material adverse effect on our business.


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If our security measures are breached and third parties obtain unauthorized access to customer data, our reputation may be harmed, potential and current customers might cease purchasing our services and we could be subject to regulatory penalties and litigation.
 
If third parties succeed in penetrating our network security or otherwise misappropriate our customers’ personal or payment card information, we could be subject to liability and could face reduced customer confidence in our services. If we experience breaches of our network security or sabotage, we might be required to expend significant capital and resources to protect against or alleviate these problems. We may not be able to remedy any problems caused by hackers or saboteurs in a timely manner, or at all. Because techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. If an actual or perceived breach of our security occurs, the perception of the effectiveness of our security measures and our reputation could be harmed and we could lose current and potential customers. Because of our increased profile as a result of us becoming a public company, we may be more likely to be subject to attempts to breach our data security.
 
In addition, the FTC and certain state agencies have inquired about or investigated the use and disclosure of consumers’ personal information by various Internet companies, including us. The federal government has also enacted laws, such as the FCRA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Drivers Privacy Protection Act, protecting the privacy of consumers’ nonpublic personal information. Our failure to comply with existing laws, including those of foreign countries, or the adoption of new laws or regulations regarding the use of personal information that require us to change the way we conduct our business, could increase the costs of operating our business.
 
Our business depends upon our ability to attract to our websites visitors who are likely to purchase our services, and any failure to do so could adversely affect our operating results.
 
A key component of our business model is not only to attract greater traffic to our websites, but also to attract visitors who are most likely to purchase our services. With respect to third-party websites with which we have a cost-per-click pricing relationship, we may focus our efforts on attracting those customers whom we believe are more likely to purchase our services in order to maximize revenues relative to our customer acquisition costs. By comparison, in situations where we have a revenue sharing or fixed-price relationship, we may attempt to attract a high level of traffic to our websites, and our conversion of visitors into customers may be lower by comparison. We may not be effective in controlling or directing the levels of traffic that we desire in order to maximize the economics of these different types of relationships.
 
Many other factors could affect our ability to convert visitors into customers, including:
 
  •  failing to meet the needs of our potential customers due to a perceived lack of breadth of service offerings, perceived or actual unreliability of information, or otherwise;
 
  •  unwillingness of potential customers to pay the prices we charge for our intelligence services, or to pay for information-related services at all;
 
  •  deterioration in the customer experience on our websites and level of customer care;
 
  •  system failures that cause our websites or services to be unavailable; or
 
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If any of these or other factors causes our conversion of visitors into customers to decrease, our revenue growth could slow and our business could be harmed. We may also be forced to reduce our prices to maintain or increase our conversion rate, which would harm our revenues and operating margin.
 
We may not be able to grow our business and our operating results may be adversely affected unless we generate greater brand recognition and market awareness of our services and increase quality traffic to our websites in a cost-effective manner.
 
We derive most of the visitors to our websites from third parties that we compensate for this traffic. Sales and marketing expenses accounted for a substantial majority of our operating expenses for the first nine months of 2007, of which customer acquisition costs related to online advertising arrangements was the largest component. If we do not increase the number of direct visitors to our websites and reduce our reliance on third-party traffic, our ability to improve our operating margin and grow our business will be limited. We must generate greater awareness of our brand and the services we offer in order to increase the proportion of direct visitors to our websites. We expect that we will need to engage in online and offline advertising, in addition to our existing customer acquisition advertising relationships, in order to generate greater brand awareness. For example, we ran a significant offline advertising campaign in the fourth quarter of 2006 for this purpose, and we continue to utilize various print and other offline advertising. There is no guarantee that these advertising efforts will be effective in generating increased direct traffic and generating and sustaining greater brand awareness, or that these efforts will be more cost-effective than our online advertising relationships.
 
In addition, we believe that growth of our customer base and future revenue growth depends on making our services appeal to a wider segment of the population. We must grow our brand to appeal to wider segments of the online user population, and must engage in marketing efforts that will be effective in appealing to wider audiences.
 
Consumer perception of our brand could be harmed if visitors to our websites do not perceive our existing services to be valuable to them, if our industry or our company receives negative publicity related to our role in using personal information, if we alter or modify our brand image, if we fail to maintain customer service levels or encounter data security breaches or if we experience other negative events. If the value of our brand is diminished as a result of any or all of these factors, our competitive position, revenues and operating margin would likely suffer.
 
Because our business depends upon our reputation for high-quality services and data integrity, if the information that we deliver to customers is unreliable or is perceived to be unreliable, our business will be harmed.
 
We believe that the primary benefits that attract customers to purchase our intelligence services are the accuracy, relevancy and completeness of the information that we provide. Moreover, we compete against offline providers of information services with respect to some of our service offerings, and for us to be successful, customers must perceive our services to be as reliable as services provided by our competitors, which often involve human analysis and review. The information that we provide is based on data that we collect from many online and offline sources, and we rely on the accuracy, relevancy and completeness of this underlying data. However, from time to time, information provided to our customers contains inaccuracies. If our service offerings provide inaccurate, irrelevant or incomplete information, or if this information is otherwise not useful for our customers’ needs, then our reputation will be harmed and sales of our service offerings will decline.


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If we are not successful in developing new intelligence services, our operating results may be harmed.
 
A substantial majority of our revenues in the first nine months of 2007 was derived from sales of our intelligence service offerings. Our operating results would be substantially harmed in the short term if sales of any of these services were to decline or if we are not successful at enhancing these services or developing or acquiring new services to meet customer requirements. Any new service we develop or acquire may not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner and may not achieve the broad market acceptance necessary to generate significant revenues. If we are unable to develop new services to increase the breadth of our service offerings, our business and operating results may be adversely affected.
 
If we are unable to increase repeat purchase activity, our revenue growth and operating margin will be harmed.
 
New customer acquisition costs are our largest operating expense. Repeat purchase activity reduces this operating expense by lowering average customer acquisition costs. In addition, our experience to date indicates that repeat customers purchase a greater number of services from us than first-time customers. Our ability to generate repeat purchase activity will depend on our ability to generate compelling new service offerings and to provide a positive customer experience and customer support. If we are unable to maintain loyal customers and generate increased repeat purchase activity from these customers, our revenue growth and operating margin will be harmed.
 
If the data that we obtain from government and private sources becomes unavailable or more expensive, our costs will increase and our operating margin will decline.
 
Our intelligence services depend upon the continual availability of data from many external online and offline sources. For example, we obtain information from public filings, information companies and government authorities, and we rely on a large number of court vendors for completing local courthouse searches. Information provided by commercial sources may become unavailable if one or more providers change business practices, are sold or go out of business, suffer system downtimes or as a result of other factors. We do not have multi-year agreements with some of our data suppliers. Moreover, changes in federal, state or local laws and regulations, including privacy laws, and unavailability of online public databases and other public records may contribute to the unavailability of source data. The loss or temporary unavailability of one or more sources of data may reduce the completeness and reliability of the information we provide, or reduce the breadth of our service offerings. In addition, source data that is currently obtainable without charge or at a low cost may become more expensive, which could require us to raise our prices or make it cost-ineffective for us to gather that information. Any of these factors could materially harm our operating results, financial condition and business operations.
 
We face competition from a wide variety of online and offline companies in the different markets for our service offerings, and we expect to face increased competition, particularly online. If we do not compete successfully, our business, financial condition and results of operations will be adversely affected.
 
We operate in rapidly evolving and competitive markets, competing primarily with large, diversified online and offline service providers, as well as small firms and individuals. These competitors include online and offline background check and information verification service providers, large diversified Internet companies, credit bureaus, and online address and phone number directories. We anticipate that as the market for our services grows and we develop


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and expand our service offerings, we will encounter increased competition from new and existing competitors. As we develop new service offerings, we expect that we will be exposed to new competitive threats. Many of these actual or potential competitors have greater resources, more brand recognition and consumer awareness, greater international scope and larger customer bases than we do. We may be unable to maintain or strengthen our competitive position in our markets, especially against larger competitors. As competition intensifies, we may become more reliant on our advertising relationships, which may reduce our bargaining leverage and make us more susceptible to financial harm if any of these relationships are subsequently terminated. If we do not compete successfully, our business and results of operations will be adversely affected.
 
The competitive landscape for online intelligence services is extremely fragmented, with widespread availability of alternative services at different price points. As this market evolves, consumer demand and competitive service offerings may emerge that undermine demand for or impose pricing pressures on our services, which could result in reduced revenues and operating margin. Because few businesses have had success charging consumers for information or information-related services over the Internet, it is possible that competitors employing an advertising-supported business model with free or low-price information service offerings may emerge. Any such development may require us to reevaluate our business model and pricing structures.
 
We intend to continue to make acquisitions of complementary domain names, services, technologies or businesses to facilitate development of new services and to increase customer traffic, but if we are unable to make acquisitions, or if we do not realize the anticipated benefits of acquisitions, our revenue growth could be harmed.
 
We have made acquisitions of domain names and other assets, technologies and businesses in the past, and expect to continue to make acquisitions of complementary domain names, services, technologies or businesses in the future. For example, in November 2006, we acquired IntelliSense Corporation, an employment screening business. Any acquisition could require significant capital outlays and could involve many risks, including, but not limited to, the following:
 
  •  integrating the operations, systems, employees, benefit programs, services and technologies of acquired businesses into our existing business, workforce and services can be complex, time-consuming and expensive, as it was for the acquisition of IntelliSense Corporation;
 
  •  domain names that we acquire may not generate the levels of traffic to our websites that we anticipate;
 
  •  we may be required to record substantial accounting charges, including amortization charges, which could impact our operating margin;
 
  •  an acquisition may involve entry into geographic or business markets in which we have little or no prior experience;
 
  •  an acquisition may disrupt our ongoing business, divert resources, increase our expenses and distract our management;
 
  •  an acquisition may require additional steps to be taken in order to comply with certain privacy and data security laws and may implicate privacy and data security laws with which we had not previously been required to comply;
 
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  previously had business relationships with the previous owners of the domain names; and
 
  •  we may have to issue equity securities to complete an acquisition, which would dilute our stockholders’ ownership position and could adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
 
We may not be able to identify or consummate any future acquisitions on favorable terms, or at all. If we do complete an acquisition, it is possible that the financial markets or investors will view the acquisition negatively. Even if we successfully complete an acquisition, it could adversely affect our business, and we cannot assure you that the anticipated benefits of any acquisition will be realized or that we will not be exposed to unknown liabilities. We may not be able to secure any necessary additional debt or equity financing to complete an acquisition on favorable terms, or at all, at the time when we need that funding.
 
Any of these factors could harm our ability to achieve anticipated levels of profitability from acquired businesses or to realize other anticipated benefits of acquisitions.
 
We are subject to risks related to credit card payments we accept, including credit risk and financial penalties, which could harm our operating results.
 
A substantial majority of our revenues originates from online credit transactions. Under current payment card industry practices, we are liable for fraudulent and disputed payment card transactions because we do not obtain the cardholder’s signature at the time of the transaction. If we fail to maintain our chargeback rates at levels that are acceptable to the payment card associations or otherwise fail to comply with their rules or requirements, we will face the risk that one or more payment card associations may, at any time, assess penalties against us, including higher transaction fees, or terminate our ability to accept payment card payments from customers, which would harm our business and operating results. We may also be the subject of litigation and receive adverse publicity due to these issues, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition. If our security measures are not sufficient, we will be at risk for a higher rate of payment card chargebacks. Because we provide online services to customers but do not process payments for approximately three days after we provide these services, we are at risk for fraudulent activity that we cannot detect in the limited time between the placement of an order and our provision of services. Fraudulent activity continues to increase in sophistication, making it more difficult to discern legitimate activities from those that are fraudulent.
 
Payment processors, which serve as intermediaries between us and credit card companies, may not be able to process our requirements or may terminate their agreements. In 2005, our payment processor was unable to process our payments at a sufficient rate on two occasions, requiring that we queue up pending transactions internally and take on the credit risk that the queued payments would not be approved by the payment processor. Such occurrences could impact our operating results and reputation.
 
We accept payments by a variety of methods, including credit cards. As we offer new payment options to our customers, we may be subject to additional regulations, compliance requirements and fraud. For some payment transactions, including credit cards, we pay transaction fees that may increase over time, raising our operating costs. We are also subject to payment card association operating rules, certification requirements and rules governing electronic funds transfers, which could change or be reinterpreted to make it difficult or impossible for us to comply, or comply quickly enough to avoid impact on our business.


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System failures could lead to decreased sales and to customer perception that our services are unreliable.
 
We have experienced system failures or brief outages in the past, and will likely experience future system failures or outages that disrupt the operation of our websites and harm our business. Our revenues depend in large part on the volume of traffic to our websites. Accordingly, the performance, reliability and availability of our websites, servers for our corporate operations and infrastructure are critical to our reputation and our ability to generate a high volume of traffic to our websites and to attract and retain customers.
 
We regularly attempt to expand and enhance our technology and network infrastructure and other technologies to accommodate increases in the volume of traffic on our websites and the number of customer transactions we can process. We may be unsuccessful in these efforts or we may be unable to project accurately the rate or timing of these increases. We cannot predict whether additional network capacity will be available on commercially reasonable terms from third-party suppliers as we require it. In addition, our network or our data suppliers’ networks may be unable to download data effectively or to maintain data transmission capacity sufficiently high to process orders, especially if the volume of customer orders increases.
 
Our corporate headquarters, computer hardware operations and backup systems are located at our facilities in the Seattle area, which is seismically active, and are at risk for earthquakes and volcanoes. If these locations experienced a significant system failure or interruption, our business would be harmed. Currently, these facilities do not provide the ability to switch immediately to another back-up site in the event of failure of the main server site. This means that an outage at one facility could result in our system being unavailable for at least several hours. This downtime could result in increased costs, lost revenues and reputational damage, which would be detrimental to our business.
 
Our systems are also vulnerable to damage from fire, power loss, telecommunications failures, computer viruses, physical and electronic break-ins and similar events. The property and business interruption insurance we carry may not have coverage adequate to compensate us fully for losses that may occur.
 
Our market may undergo rapid technological change and any inability to meet the changing needs of our industry could harm our financial performance.
 
The Internet and electronic commerce are characterized by rapid technological change. Sudden changes in user and customer requirements and preferences, the frequent introduction of new services embodying new technologies and the emergence of new industry standards and practices could make our services and systems obsolete. The rapid evolution of Internet-based applications and services will require that we continually improve the performance, features and reliability of our services. Our success will depend, in part, on our ability to:
 
  •  develop or acquire new services and technologies that address the increasingly sophisticated and varied needs of our current and prospective customers; and
 
  •  respond to technological advances and emerging industry standards and practices on a cost-effective and timely basis.
 
We have elected to develop substantially all of our services internally, rather than licensing or acquiring technology from third-party vendors. The development of new services is complex, and we may not be able to complete development in a timely manner, or at all. Our internal development teams may be unable to keep pace with new technological developments that affect the marketplace for our services. If relevant technological developments or changes


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in the market outpace our ability to develop services demanded by current and prospective customers, our existing services may be rendered obsolete, and we may be forced to license or acquire software and other technology from third parties, or we may lose existing customers and fail to attract new customers. If we are forced to shift our strategy toward licensing our core technology from third parties, it could prove to be more costly than internal development and adversely impact our operating results.
 
The development of services and other proprietary technology involves significant technological and business risks and requires substantial expenditures and lead-time. We may be unable to use new technologies effectively or to adapt our internally developed technologies and services to customer requirements, emerging industry standards or regulatory requirements. In addition, as we offer new services and functionality, we will need to ensure that any new services and functionality are well integrated with our current services, particularly as we offer an increasing number of our services as part of bundled suites. To the extent that any new services offered by us do not interoperate well with our existing services, our ability to market and sell those new services would be adversely affected and our revenue level and ability to achieve and sustain profitability might be harmed.
 
We are a young company that has grown rapidly, and if we are not successful in managing our expected expansion, our business could be harmed.
 
In recent years, we have expanded our operations and our employee headcount significantly, and we anticipate that further expansion will be required to realize our growth strategy. For example, we have expanded our operations through our acquisition of IntelliSense Corporation in November 2006, and the number of our employees has grown from 43 as of January 1, 2006 to 139 as of December 31, 2007. Our growth will place significant demands on our management and other resources. To manage expected growth, we will need to attract, hire, retain and motivate highly skilled officers, managers and employees, improve existing systems and implement new infrastructure and systems relating to our operations and financial controls. In addition, we intend to continue to expand our operations by offering new and enhanced services and by expanding our market presence through relationships with third parties. We may not be able to accomplish this expansion in a cost-effective or timely manner, or these efforts may not increase the overall market acceptance of our services. Expansion of our operations in this manner could also require significant additional expenditures and strain our management, financial and operational resources. If we are unable to manage the growth we expect in our operations, we may be unable to execute our business model. This, in turn, could make us more vulnerable to competitive pressure and harm our business.
 
We are heavily dependent upon our executive leadership team, particularly our Chief Executive Officer, and the loss of any of our senior management could adversely affect our future operating results.
 
Our future success will depend on the ability of our executive management to operate effectively, as individuals and as a group. The loss of any of our senior management—particularly Naveen Jain, one of our founders and our Chief Executive Officer and President—could adversely affect our future operating results. We believe that Mr. Jain has been critical to the development of our corporate culture and corporate image, and has been instrumental in the growth of our business to date. If we lose the services of Mr. Jain, we could incur serious damage to our corporate culture and marketing focus, which, in turn, could adversely impact our ability to achieve future growth. Mr. Jain has been involved in several high-profile lawsuits, including lawsuits related to his activities as a former officer and director of InfoSpace, one of which is ongoing. Mr. Jain has devoted significant attention to these litigations at various times, and certain of these actions have received media attention. There can be no assurance that Mr. Jain will not be subject to additional litigation in the future. Any


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such litigation could distract Mr. Jain from his activities as our Chief Executive Officer and President, and harm his reputation and consequently our business.
 
Our arrangements with our employees, including Mr. Jain and our other executive officers, are at-will, and therefore may be terminated at any time by us or the employee. In addition, a significant portion of the stock options held by several of our executive officers are vested, which presents the risk that these individuals may lack sufficient economic motivation to continue their employment with us in future periods.
 
If we fail to maintain proper and effective internal controls, our ability to produce accurate financial statements could be impaired, which could adversely affect our operating results, our ability to operate our business and investor confidence in our company.
 
As a public company, we will be required to furnish a report by management on our internal control over financial reporting as of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009. That report will contain, among other things, an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, including a statement regarding whether or not our internal control over financial reporting is effective, as well as disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting.
 
We have commenced the process of compiling system and processing documentation before we perform the evaluation needed to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. We are developing infrastructure for implementing these requirements, and if we are unable to hire staff with required experience, we may not be able to complete our evaluation and testing and any required remediation in a timely fashion. During the evaluation and testing process, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we will have an ineffective internal control environment, which may affect the accuracy of our financial reporting. If we are unable to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which would have a material adverse effect on the price of our common stock. In addition, other serious adverse consequences could arise which could, among other things, make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our Board of Directors, on committees of our Board of Directors, or as executive officers.
 
We may be subject to costly litigation arising out of information presented on or collected in connection with our services, and the litigation could have a material adverse effect on our business if decided adversely.
 
Our intelligence services can be used to obtain personal information about individuals, including criminal records, past employment history and other personal information. The information we provide is based on data that we collect from multiple online and offline sources, and we rely on the accuracy and completeness of this underlying data. Individuals, businesses and government agencies may rely on this information in making hiring decisions, conducting background checks of potential business partners, and entrusting children to caretakers. If our services provide inaccurate information, individuals seeking employment or businesses seeking business opportunities may be denied those opportunities on the basis of that information. Conversely, if the information provided by our services is erroneous or incomplete, the users of our services may hire someone or enter into a business relationship with someone with a fraudulent resume or business credential, or may entrust their children to someone with a criminal record. We may face potential liability in either situation, with potential claims ranging from defamation, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, negligence and similar


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claims. For example, in the past we have faced a claim because we reported that a person had been convicted of criminal activity when the person had merely been charged with the activity. Some laws require us to withhold disclosure of identifying information regarding certain individuals in some circumstances; however, because an individual’s identifying information may change without our knowledge, the individual may still be searchable in our database.
 
From time to time, we have been subject to lawsuits by potential employees of our customers alleging that we provided to our customers inaccurate or improper information that negatively impacted the customers’ hiring decisions. Such claims and similar lawsuits in the future could divert the attention of our management, subject us to equitable remedies relating to the operation of our business and provision of services and result in significant legal expenses, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
 
We could face liability based on the nature of our services and the information we report, which may not be covered or fully covered by insurance.
 
We face potential liability from individuals, classes of individuals, customers or regulatory bodies for claims based on the nature, content or accuracy of our services and the information used and reported by us. This potential liability includes claims of non-compliance with laws and regulations governing our services and claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, negligence, and copyright, patent or trademark infringement. In some cases such liability may be strict liability.
 
Insurance may not be adequate to cover us for all risks to which we are exposed or may not be available to cover these claims at all. For example, punitive damages, which generally are not covered by insurance, is a remedy available under the FCRA to consumers for the failure to comply with the FCRA. Any imposition of liability, particularly liability that is not covered by insurance or is in excess of our insurance coverage, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
 
We may be required to indemnify our customers or data suppliers, which could have a material adverse impact on our cash flow, results of operations and financial condition.
 
Some of our customer and data supplier contracts contain indemnification provisions that require us to indemnify our customers and suppliers against certain claims, including claims for improper use of information, non-compliance with laws and regulations applicable to our services and intellectual property infringement. To the extent these claims are successful and are not covered by or exceed our insurance coverage, these obligations could have a material adverse impact on our cash flow, results of operations and financial condition.
 
If a third party asserts that we are infringing its intellectual property, it could subject us to costly and time-consuming litigation or require us to obtain expensive licenses, which could harm our competitive position, operating margin and financial condition.
 
The Internet, software and technology industries are generally characterized by the importance of trade secrets, patents, trademarks, service marks and copyrights and by frequent litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. Third parties may assert patent and other intellectual property infringement claims against us in the form of lawsuits, letters or other types of communications. For example, in the past we have been the subject of a trademark infringement claim. If a third party successfully asserts a claim that we are infringing its proprietary rights, royalty or licensing


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agreements might not be available on terms we find acceptable, or at all, or may result in injunctive relief from selling our services. As not all currently pending patent applications are publicly available, we cannot anticipate all such claims or know with certainty whether our technology infringes the intellectual property rights of third parties. We expect that the number of infringement claims will increase as the number of services and competitors in our industry grows. These claims against us, whether or not successful, could:
 
  •  divert our management’s attention;
 
  •  result in costly and time-consuming litigation;
 
  •  require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements, which might not be available on acceptable terms, or at all; or
 
  •  require us to redesign our software and services to avoid infringement.
 
As a result, any third-party intellectual property claims against us could increase our expenses and adversely affect our business. Even if we have not infringed a third party’s intellectual property rights, our legal defense could require us to expend significant financial and management resources and may prove unsuccessful.
 
The success of our business depends in large part on our ability to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights, and failure to do so could harm our business and operating results.
 
To establish and protect our intellectual property rights, we currently rely primarily on trade secret laws, confidentiality and non-compete restrictions and trademarks, all of which offer only limited protection. We enter into agreements with our employees and contractors, and parties with which we do business, in order to limit access to and disclosure of our proprietary information. The steps we have taken to protect our intellectual property may not prevent the misappropriation of our proprietary rights or the reverse engineering of our technology. Moreover, others may independently develop technologies that are competitive with ours and our intellectual property protection may not prevent these competitors from selling services similar to ours.
 
We currently have no issued patents, and existing patent applications may not result in issued and valid patents. Any future issued patents or registered trademarks or service marks might not be enforceable or provide adequate protection for our proprietary rights.
 
Because of the global nature of the Internet, our websites can be viewed worldwide. However, we do not have intellectual property protection in every jurisdiction. Furthermore, effective patent, trademark, service mark, copyright and trade secret protection may not be available in every country in which our services become available over the Internet. In addition, the legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability and scope of protection of intellectual property rights in Internet-related industries are uncertain and still evolving.
 
Our future revenue growth depends in part on our strategy of expanding sales to enterprise customers, and if we are not successful in adding and retaining enterprise customers, our revenue growth may be impaired.
 
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are. If we are not successful in adding and retaining enterprise customers, our revenue growth may be impaired, which would likely harm the trading price of our common stock.
 
Some of our services utilize “open source” software, and any failure to comply with the terms of one or more of these open source licenses could negatively affect our business.
 
Some of our services utilize software licensed by its authors or other third parties under so-called “open source” licenses, including, but not limited to, the GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License, the Mozilla Public License, the BSD License, the PHP License, the MySQL License and the Apache License. Some of those licenses may require as a condition of the license that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon, incorporating or using the open source software, that we provide notices with our services, and/or that we license such modifications or derivative works under the terms of a particular open source license or other license granting certain rights of further use to third parties. If an author or other third party that distributes such open source software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of one or more of those open source licenses, we could be required to incur legal expenses in defending against such allegations. If our defenses were not successful, we could be enjoined from selling our services that contained the open source software and required to make the source code for the open source software available, to grant third parties certain rights of further use of our software or to remove the open source software from our services, which could disrupt our distribution and sale of some of our services. In addition, if we combine our proprietary software with open source software in a certain manner, we could under some of the open source licenses, be required to release the source code of our proprietary software. If an author or other third party that distributes open source software were to obtain a judgment against us based on allegations that we had not complied with the terms of any such open source licenses, we could also be subject to liability for copyright infringement damages and breach of contract for our past distribution of such open source software.
 
Our planned international expansion exposes us to business risks that could limit the effectiveness of our growth strategy and cause our results of operations to suffer.
 
We intend to explore opportunities to offer intelligence services in international markets in the future. Introducing and marketing our services internationally, developing direct and indirect international sales and support channels, and managing foreign personnel and operations will require significant management attention and financial resources. We face a number of risks associated with expanding our business internationally that could negatively impact our results of operations, including:
 
  •  compliance with foreign laws, including more stringent laws in foreign jurisdictions relating to the privacy and protection of data;
 
  •  reduced availability of data from public, publicly available and private sources due to foreign laws and absence of business arrangements with foreign sources of data;
 
  •  incompatibility of foreign data formats and languages with our current platform;
 
  •  the lower level of adoption of the Internet in many international markets;
 
  •  management, communication and integration problems resulting from cultural differences and geographic dispersion;
 
  •  to the extent we choose to make acquisitions to enable our international expansion efforts, the identification of suitable acquisition targets in the markets into which we want to expand;
 
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  •  political and economic instability in some international markets;
 
  •  sufficiency of qualified labor pools in various international markets;
 
  •  established foreign competitors;
 
  •  currency fluctuations and exchange rates; and
 
  •  potentially adverse tax consequences or inability to realize tax benefits.
 
We may not succeed in our efforts to expand our international presence as a result of the factors described above or other factors that may have an adverse impact on our overall financial condition and results of operations.
 
Our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected by a downturn in the general economy.
 
A general economic downturn could result in a reduction in consumer disposable income and a reduced demand for our services, as our revenues are dependent upon general economic conditions and upon conditions in the industries served by us. To the extent that the economy in general or labor market conditions in particular deteriorate, our existing and potential consumer customers may be slow to use our services, and our enterprise customers may defer hiring new or replacement employees or may be reluctant to increase expenditures on those employees they do screen. This could interfere with our growth strategy of increasing the number of background screens performed by, and average revenues per order of, our customer base, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
 
Risks Related to Our Industry
 
Changes in the laws and regulations governing access to public information and the collection or sale of publicly-available information could make it more difficult for us to conduct business.
 
Because we use personal information in providing our intelligence services, we are subject to government regulation and vulnerable to adverse publicity. We provide many types of data and services that already are subject to regulation under the FCRA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Drivers Privacy Protection Act and, to a lesser extent, various other federal, state and local laws and regulations. Violation of these laws or regulations may result in substantial fines, judgments and other penalties. For example, in 2005, the FTC levied penalties of $15 million against one of our competitors for violations of the FCRA.
 
These laws and regulations are designed to protect the privacy of the public and to prevent the misuse of personal information in the marketplace. However, many consumer organizations, privacy advocates and government regulators believe the existing laws and regulations do not adequately protect privacy. They have become increasingly concerned with the use of personal information, particularly social security numbers, department of motor vehicle data and dates of birth. As a result, they are lobbying for restrictions on the dissemination or commercial use of personal information to the public and private sectors.
 
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The following legal and regulatory developments could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position and results of operations and could result in substantial regulatory compliance and litigation expenses:
 
  •  amendment, enactment or interpretation of laws and regulations which restrict the access and use of personal information and reduce the supply of data available to customers;
 
  •  additional restrictions or requirements or increases in data prices implemented by credit bureaus and other providers of data;
 
  •  changes in cultural and consumer attitudes to favor further restrictions on information collection and sharing;
 
  •  failure of our services to comply with current laws and regulations; and
 
  •  failure of our services to adapt to changes in the regulatory environment in an efficient, cost-effective manner.
 
Further, laws and regulations that apply to Internet communications, commerce and advertising are becoming more prevalent and restrictive. These regulations could affect the costs and effectiveness of communicating over the Internet and could adversely affect the demand for our services, the efficiency of our display advertising or otherwise harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
 
Our corporate image might be impaired as a result of negative publicity about our use of personal information in our service offerings, causing a corresponding drop in our stock price.
 
Existing and future privacy laws and sensitivity of consumers to unauthorized disclosures and use of personal information may create negative reactions in investors and customers related to our business practices. Public concerns regarding data collection, privacy and security may cause some potential customers to choose not to purchase our services and some potential investors not to purchase our common stock, which would inhibit or reverse the growth of our business and negatively impact our stock price. Any perception that our services might invade consumer privacy, even if our practices are in compliance with applicable law, may subject us to adverse publicity and could impact our business and the trading price of our common stock. Publicity by politicians and regulators threatening legislative or administrative action for political or other reasons could adversely affect our business or the trading price of our common stock, whether or not the threats should ever materialize.
 
We could be subject to legal claims, government enforcement actions and damage to our reputation if we or our customers fail to comply with federal, state and foreign laws, regulations or policies governing consumer privacy, which could materially harm our business.
 
Recent growing public concern regarding privacy and the collection, distribution and use of information about Internet users has led to increased federal, state and foreign scrutiny and legislative and regulatory activity concerning data collection and use practices. The United States Congress has considered, and will continue to consider, legislation regarding privacy and data security measures (for example, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007). Any failure by us to comply with applicable federal, state and foreign laws and the requirements of regulatory authorities may result in, among other things, indemnification liability to our customers and the advertising agencies we work with, administrative enforcement actions and fines, class action lawsuits, cease and desist orders, and civil and


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criminal liability. Our failure to comply with these or other federal, state or foreign laws could result in liability and materially harm our business.
 
In addition to government activity, privacy advocacy groups and the technology and direct marketing industries are considering various new, additional or different self-regulatory standards. This focus, and any legislation, regulations or standards promulgated, may impact us adversely. Governments, trade associations and industry self-regulatory groups may enact more burdensome laws, regulations and guidelines, including consumer privacy laws, affecting our customers and us. Since many of the proposed laws or regulations are just being developed, and a consensus on privacy and data usage has not been reached, we cannot yet determine the impact these proposed laws or regulations may have on our business.
 
Third parties may bring class action lawsuits against us relating to online privacy and data collection. We disclose our information collection and dissemination policies, and we may be subject to claims if we act or are perceived to act inconsistently with these published policies. Any claims or inquiries could be costly and divert management’s attention, and the outcome of such claims could harm our reputation and our business.
 
Our customers are also subject to various federal and state laws concerning the collection and use of information regarding individuals. We cannot assure you that our customers are currently in compliance, or will remain in compliance, with these laws and their own privacy policies. We may be held liable if our customers use our services in a manner that is not in compliance with these laws or their own stated privacy policies.
 
Laws governing Internet communications and commerce over the Internet could adversely affect our business.
 
The legal and regulatory environment pertaining to the Internet is uncertain and may change in the future. New laws may be passed, existing laws may be deemed to apply to the Internet or existing legal safe harbors may be narrowed, both by U.S. federal or state governments and by governments of foreign jurisdictions. These changes could affect, among other things, user privacy and security issues, consumer protection, sales tax and other taxes, and cross-border commerce.
 
The adoption of any new laws or regulations, or the application or interpretation of existing laws or regulations to the Internet, could hinder growth in use of the Internet and online services generally, and decrease acceptance of the Internet and online services as a means of communication, commerce and advertising. In addition, it could increase our costs of doing business, subject our business to increased liability or prevent us from delivering our services over the Internet, thereby harming our business and results of operations.
 
The introduction of tax laws targeting companies engaged in electronic commerce could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operation.
 
We file tax returns in those states where existing regulations applicable to traditional businesses require these filings. However, one or more states could seek to impose additional income tax obligations or sales tax collection obligations on out-of-jurisdiction companies, such as ours, that engage in or facilitate electronic commerce. A number of proposals have been made at various government levels that could impose taxes on the sale of services through the Internet or on the income derived from these sales. These proposals, if adopted, could substantially impair the growth of electronic commerce and materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.


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The current moratorium on certain U.S. federal, state and local taxation of online services and electronic commerce, which had been scheduled to expire on November 1, 2007, was recently extended by the U.S. Congress for seven more years. Any future imposition of these taxes could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
 
The market for intelligence services is at an early stage of development, and if it does not develop as quickly as we expect, our business will be harmed.
 
The market for intelligence services is at an early stage of development, and it is uncertain whether high levels of demand for these services will emerge and be sustained. Our success will depend to a substantial extent on whether these services achieve high levels of market acceptance among consumers and enterprises. Historically, only a limited number of companies have had success charging consumers for information or information-related service offerings over the Internet, and increased market acceptance of these services will depend on whether a broad segment of the consumer and enterprise markets demonstrates a willingness to pay for these services. Other factors that may affect market acceptance include:
 
  •  awareness by consumers and enterprises of the availability of intelligence services provided over the Internet;
 
  •  the accuracy, reliability and security of these services;
 
  •  availability at a reasonable cost of the underlying data that are used to provide these services;
 
  •  whether new search tools or other offerings emerge that render these services obsolete; and
 
  •  the quality of the customer experience and levels of customer service provided by information service providers.
 
If demand for these services among consumers and enterprises does not develop, or does not develop at the rate that we expect, then our long-term prospects and operating results will be harmed.
 
To the extent the availability of free or relatively inexpensive Internet access to information increases, the demand for our services may decrease, which could harm our business.
 
Public sources of free or relatively inexpensive information have become increasingly available, particularly through the Internet, and we expect this trend to continue. Government agencies in particular have increased the amount of information to which they provide free public access. Public sources of free or relatively inexpensive information may reduce demand for our services. To the extent that customers choose not to obtain services from us and instead rely on information obtained at little or no cost from these public sources, our revenues could decrease, which may have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
 
We may be subject to and in violation of state private investigator licensing laws and regulations, which could adversely affect our ability to do business in some states and subject us to liability.
 
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private investigator in any state. We cannot assure you that we will not receive inquiries from, or be subject to, enforcement actions by state agencies. If we are required to cease or limit our operations in one or more states, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
 
Risks Related to This Offering and Our Common Stock
 
Our directors, executive officers and principal stockholders will continue to have substantial control over us after this offering and could delay or prevent a change in corporate control.
 
After this offering, our directors, executive officers and holders of more than 5% of our common stock, together with their affiliates, will beneficially own, in the aggregate,  % of our outstanding common stock. As a result, these stockholders, acting together, would have the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including the election of directors and any merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets. In addition, these stockholders, acting together, would have the ability to control the management and affairs of our company. Accordingly, this concentration of ownership might harm the market price of our common stock by:
 
  •  delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of us;
 
  •  impeding a merger, consolidation, takeover or other business combination involving us; or
 
  •  discouraging a potential acquirer from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us.
 
We will incur increased costs and demands upon management as a result of complying with the laws and regulations affecting public companies, which could affect our operating results.
 
As a public company, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company, including costs associated with public company reporting requirements. We also have begun to incur, and will continue to incur, substantial costs associated with corporate governance requirements, including requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and rules and regulations implemented by the Securities and Exchange Commission and The NASDAQ Stock Market. The expenses incurred by public companies for reporting and corporate governance purposes have generally increased in recent years. We expect these rules and regulations to increase our legal and financial compliance costs and to make some activities more time-consuming and costly, although we are currently unable to estimate these costs with any degree of certainty. We also expect these rules and regulations may make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain coverage the same as or similar to coverage that used to be available. As a result, it may be more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified individuals to serve on our Board of Directors, on committees of our Board of Directors or as our executive officers.
 
An active, liquid and orderly trading market for our common stock may not develop.
 
Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for any shares of our common stock. We and the representatives of the underwriters will determine the initial public offering price of our common stock through negotiation. This price will not necessarily reflect the price at which investors in the market will be willing to buy and sell shares of our common stock


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following this offering. In addition, the trading price of our common stock following this offering is likely to be volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to various factors, some of which are beyond our control. These factors include:
 
  •  quarterly variations in our results of operations or those of our competitors;
 
  •  our ability to develop and market new and enhanced services on a timely basis;
 
  •  announcements by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions, new services, material contracts or new commercial relationships;
 
  •  changes in the makeup of competition for our various service offerings or announcements of new offerings by our competitors;
 
  •  commencement of, our involvement in, or results of litigation;
 
  •  a determination by the FTC that our consumer services are regulated by the FCRA;
 
  •  changes in federal, state or local regulation affecting our business;
 
  •  negative media coverage or legislative action focusing on us or our industry;
 
  •  changes in earnings estimates or recommendations by any public market analysts who elect to follow our company;
 
  •  any major change in our Board of Directors or management; and
 
  •  general economic conditions and slow or negative growth of our markets.
 
In addition, the stock market in general, and the market for the shares of Internet companies in particular, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. Broad market and industry factors may seriously affect the market prices of companies’ stock, including ours, regardless of their actual operating performance. These fluctuations may be even more pronounced in the trading market for our common stock shortly following this offering. In addition, in the past, following periods of volatility in the overall market and the market prices of particular companies’ securities, securities class action litigation has often been instituted against these companies. This type of litigation, if instituted against us, could result in substantial costs and a diversion of our management’s attention and resources.
 
Provisions in our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws and under Delaware law could discourage a takeover that stockholders may consider favorable.
 
Our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, each of which will become effective upon the completion of this offering, contain provisions that could depress the trading price of our common stock by acting to discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company or changes in our management that the stockholders of our company may deem advantageous. These provisions:
 
  •  authorize the issuance of 10,000,000 “blank check” preferred stock that our Board of Directors could issue to increase the number of outstanding shares to discourage a takeover attempt or which could be used in connection with the adoption of a stockholder rights plan or, “poison pill”;
 
  •  prohibit stockholder action by written consent, which requires all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders; and
 
  •  prohibit stockholders from calling special meetings, which may deter a takeover attempt.
 
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business combinations with any holder of 15% or more of our capital stock for a period of three years following the date on which the stockholder acquired such ownership percentage, unless, among other things, our Board of Directors has approved the transaction. This statute likewise may discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of Intelius.
 
Purchasers in this offering will experience immediate and substantial dilution in the book value of their investment.
 
The initial public offering price of our common stock will be substantially higher than the net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately after this offering. Therefore, if you purchase our common stock in this offering, you will incur an immediate dilution of $      in net tangible book value per share from the price you paid, based on the pro forma net tangible book value of our common stock at December 31, 2007 and an assumed initial public offering price of $      per share. If previously granted options to purchase shares of our common stock are exercised, additional dilution will occur. As of December 31, 2007, options to purchase 3,321,725 shares of our common stock at a weighted average exercise price of $      per share were outstanding.
 
Future sales of shares by our existing stockholders or option holders could cause our stock price to decline.
 
If our existing stockholders sell, or indicate an intention to sell, substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market after the contractual lock-up and other legal restrictions on resale discussed in this prospectus lapse, the trading price of our common stock could decline. Based on shares outstanding as of December 31, 2007, after this offering, we will have outstanding a total of           shares of our common stock. Of these shares, the           shares of common stock to be sold in this offering by us will be freely tradable, without restriction, in the public market. Of the remaining           shares,           shares are subject to 180-day lock-up agreements between our stockholders and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., which may, in their sole discretion, permit our directors, officers, employees and stockholders to sell shares prior to the expiration of the 180-day contractual lock-up period. For additional information, see “Shares Eligible for Future Sale—Lock-Up Agreements.” The remaining           shares of our common stock will be freely tradable immediately, without restriction, in the public market.
 
In addition, as of December 31, 2007, 3,321,725 shares underlying outstanding stock options will, to the extent they are exercised, become eligible for sale in the public market to the extent permitted by the provisions of various option agreements, the lock-up agreements and Rules 144 and 701 under the Securities Act. If these additional shares are sold, or if it is perceived that they will be sold, in the public market, the trading price of our common stock could decline. For additional information, see “Shares Eligible for Future Sale.”
 
Because management has broad discretion regarding the use of the net proceeds from this offering, you may not agree with how we use them, and these proceeds may not be invested successfully.
 
Our management will have broad discretion with respect to our net proceeds from this offering. We intend to use the net proceeds from the offering for working capital and other general corporate purposes. However, we are continuously seeking new opportunities to apply our intelligence services platform to new service offerings, both within the U.S. and abroad, and some of the proceeds may be used in pursuing one or more of these new opportunities. You will be relying on the judgment of our management concerning these uses, and you will not have the opportunity, as part of your investment decision, to assess whether the proceeds will be used appropriately. The failure of our management to apply these funds effectively


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could result in unfavorable returns and uncertainty about our prospects, either of which could cause the price of our common stock to decline.
 
We have never paid cash dividends and we do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
 
We have never declared or paid any dividends on our common stock. We intend to retain any earnings to finance the operation and expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the future. As a result, you may only receive a return on your investment in our common stock if the market price of our common stock increases.


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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
AND INDUSTRY DATA
 
This prospectus includes forward-looking statements that relate to future events or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Words such as, but not limited to, “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “targets,” “likely,” “will,” “would,” “could,” and similar expressions or phrases identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about:
 
  •  anticipated growth of and trends in the market for intelligence services provided over the Internet and for intelligence services generally;
 
  •  our ability to anticipate market needs or to develop and release, on a timely basis, new or enhanced services to meet those needs;
 
  •  our ability to maintain our relationships with third-party websites and search engines, to expand those relationships, and to develop new online advertising relationships;
 
  •  our ability to generate greater awareness of our brand and to increase direct traffic to our websites;
 
  •  our ability to compete in our market;
 
  •  our intentions to make acquisitions in the future, including to identify acquisition targets and to manage any potential acquisitions successfully;
 
  •  our intention to expand into international markets in the future and our ability to manage this expansion;
 
  •  our future funding needs and ability to obtain funding on acceptable terms;
 
  •  our expectations regarding the use of proceeds from this offering; and
 
  •  other statements regarding anticipated trends and challenges in our business and the market in which we operate.
 
Forward-looking statements involve risks, assumptions and uncertainties. The occurrence of the events described, and the achievement of the expected results, depend on many events, some or all of which are not predictable or within our control. Actual results may differ materially from expected results. See the section titled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus for a more complete discussion of these risks, assumptions and uncertainties and for other risks and uncertainties. These risks, assumptions and uncertainties are not necessarily all of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any of our forward-looking statements. Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could harm our results. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events discussed in this prospectus might not occur. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as provided by law.


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This prospectus also contains statistical data and estimates, including those relating to market size and growth rates of the markets in which we participate, that we obtained from industry publications and reports generated by, among others, Business Week, comScore, eMarketer, IDC and Interactive Advertising Bureau. These publications generally indicate that they have obtained their information from sources they believe to be reliable, but do not guarantee the accuracy and completeness of their information. Although we have assessed the information in the publications and found it to be reasonable and believe the publications are reliable, we have not independently verified their data.


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USE OF PROCEEDS
 
We estimate that our net proceeds from the sale of the common stock in this offering will be approximately $          , assuming an initial public offering price of $           per share, which is the midpoint of the range listed on the cover page of this prospectus, and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and our estimated offering expenses. Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $           per share would increase or decrease, as applicable, the net proceeds to us by approximately $           million, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions payable by us. If the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares in this offering is exercised in full, we estimate that our net proceeds will be approximately $          .
 
We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital and other general corporate purposes, including to finance our growth, develop new service offerings and fund capital expenditures. In addition, we may choose to expand our current business through potential acquisitions of other complementary domain names, businesses, services or technologies. However, we do not have agreements or commitments for any specific acquisitions at this time. We also are continuously seeking new opportunities to apply our intelligence services platform to new service offerings, both within the U.S. and abroad, and some of the proceeds may eventually be used in pursuing one or more of these new opportunities.
 
Our management will retain broad discretion in the allocation and use of the net proceeds of this offering, and investors will be relying on the judgment of our management regarding the application of these net proceeds. Pending the uses described above, we will invest the net proceeds from this offering in short-term, interest-bearing, investment-grade securities. We cannot predict whether this investment of the net proceeds will yield a favorable return.
 
DIVIDEND POLICY
 
We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our capital stock. We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Any future determination to declare cash dividends will be made at the discretion of our Board of Directors, subject to our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, general business conditions and other factors that our Board of Directors may deem relevant.


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CAPITALIZATION
 
The following table sets forth our cash and cash equivalents and our capitalization as of September 30, 2007 as follows:
 
  •  on an actual basis;
 
  •  on a pro forma basis, after giving effect to (1) the amendment of our certificate of incorporation in November 2007 to convert all of our outstanding shares of Class B common stock into 9,315,000 shares of Class A common stock, (2) the amendment of our certificate of incorporation in January 2008 to (i) increase our authorized capital stock to 100,000,000 shares of common stock, (ii) convert all outstanding shares of Class A common stock into a new class of common stock and (iii) authorize 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock and (3) the conversion of all outstanding shares of preferred stock into common stock on a one-to-one basis upon the completion of the offering; and
 
  •  on a pro forma as adjusted basis to give effect to (1) our receipt of the net proceeds from our sale of           shares of common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $      per share, which is the midpoint of the range shown on the cover of this prospectus, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and our estimated offering expenses and (2) the filing of our restated certificate of incorporation in Delaware immediately prior to the completion of this offering.
 
You should read this table in conjunction with the sections titled “Selected Consolidated Financial Data” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus.
 


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    As of September 30, 2007  
                Pro Forma
 
    Actual     Pro Forma     as Adjusted (1)  
    (unaudited)  
    (in thousands, except share and per share data)  
 
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 9,063     $ 9,063     $          
                         
Capital lease obligations
    146       146          
                         
Stockholders’ equity:
                       
                         
Convertible preferred stock, $0.0001 par value: 3,000,000 shares authorized; 1,667,500 shares issued and outstanding, actual; 3,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; no shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted
                   
                         
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value: no shares authorized, issued or outstanding, actual and pro forma; 10,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted
                   
                         
Common stock, Class A: $0.0001 par value, 21,000,000 shares authorized, 12,540,208 shares issued and outstanding, actual; no shares authorized, issued and outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted
    1                
                         
Common stock, Class B: $0.0001 par value, 9,000,000 shares authorized, 8,100,000 shares issued and outstanding, actual; no shares authorized, issued and outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted
    1                
                         
Common stock, $0.0001 par value, no shares authorized, issued and outstanding, actual; 100,000,000 authorized, 23,522,708 issued and outstanding, pro forma; 100,000,000 shares authorized,        shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted
          2              
                         
Additional paid-in capital
    5,543       5,543              
                         
Retained earnings
    17,593       17,593          
                         
Total stockholders’ equity
    23,138       23,138          
                         
Total capitalization
  $ 23,284     $ 23,284     $  
                         
 
 
(1) Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $      per share would increase or decrease, respectively, the amount of pro forma as adjusted cash and cash equivalents, additional paid-in capital, total stockholders’ equity and total capitalization by approximately $      million, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. If the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares of our common stock in this offering is exercised in full, the amount of pro forma as adjusted cash and cash equivalents, additional paid-in capital, total stockholders’ equity and total capitalization would increase by approximately $          , and we would have           shares of our common stock issued and outstanding.
 
This table excludes the following:
 
  •  3,154,634 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding options, at a weighted average exercise price of $      per share;
 
  •  377,500 unvested and outstanding restricted stock units; and
 
  •  1,497,116 shares remaining available for issuance pursuant to future awards under our 2005 Stock Incentive Plan.

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DILUTION
 
If you invest in our common stock, your interest will be diluted immediately to the extent of the difference between the initial public offering price per share of our common stock and the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of common stock immediately after completion of this offering. Net tangible book value per share represents the amount of our total tangible assets (total assets less intangible assets) less total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares of common stock outstanding.
 
As of December 31, 2007, the net tangible book value of our common stock was $      million, or $      per share. The net tangible book value of common stock gives effect to the conversion in January 2008 of all outstanding shares of Class A common stock on a one-to-one basis into a new class of common stock, and the conversion of all outstanding shares of preferred stock into common stock upon the completion of this offering.
 
Assuming the sale by us of           shares of common stock offered in this offering at an initial public offering price of $      per share, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, the pro forma net tangible book value of our common stock as of December 31, 2007 would have been $      , or $      per share. This represents an immediate increase of net tangible book value of $      per share to our existing stockholders and an immediate dilution of $      per share to new investors purchasing shares in this offering. The following table illustrates this per share dilution:
 
         
Assumed initial public offering price per share
  $    
Pro forma net tangible book value per share as of December 31, 2007, before giving effect to this offering
  $    
Increase per share attributable to this offering
       
Pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share after giving effect to this offering
     
Dilution per share to new investors in this offering
  $  
         
 
A $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $      would increase or decrease our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share after this offering by $      per share and the dilution in pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value to new investors by $      per share, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions.
 
The following table shows, as of December 31, 2007, the number of shares of common stock purchased from us, the total consideration paid to us and the average price paid per share by existing stockholders and by new investors purchasing common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $      per share, before deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and our estimated offering expenses.
 
                                         
                            Average
 
    Shares Purchased     Total Consideration     Price per
 
    Number     Percent     Amount     Percent     Share  
 
Existing stockholders
                                       
New investors
                                       
Total
                                       
 
A $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $      per share would increase or decrease, respectively, total consideration paid by new investors and total consideration paid by all stockholders by approximately $      million, assuming that the


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number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same.
 
The above discussion and tables are based on 23,555,884 shares outstanding as of December 31, 2007, and does not reflect:
 
  •  3,321,725 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding options at a weighted average exercise price of $      per share;
 
  •  320,000 unvested and outstanding restricted stock units; and
 
  •  6,296,849 shares remaining available for issuance pursuant to future awards under our 2005 Stock Incentive Plan.
 
If the underwriters exercise in full their over-allotment option to purchase up to           additional shares from us in this offering, our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share as of December 31, 2007 will be $     , representing an immediate increase in pro forma net tangible book value per share attributable to this offering of $      to our existing stockholders and an immediate dilution per share to new investors in this offering of $     . If the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full, our existing stockholders would own     % and our new investors would own     % of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding after this offering.
 
Assuming the exercise in full of outstanding stock options, the pro forma net tangible book value at December 31, 2007 would have been $      per share, representing an immediate dilution of $      per share to our existing stockholders, and, after giving effect to the sale of shares of common stock by us in this offering, there would be an immediate dilution of $      per share to new investors in this offering. Assuming the exercise in full of the outstanding stock options, the shares purchased by the new investors would constitute     % of all shares purchased from us, and the total consideration paid by new investors would constitute     % of the total consideration paid for all shares purchased from us. In addition, the average price per share paid by new investors would be $     , and the average price per share paid by existing stockholders would be $     .


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SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA
 
The following tables present selected consolidated financial data for our business. The consolidated statements of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006 and the consolidated balance sheets data as of December 31, 2005 and 2006 have been derived from our consolidated audited financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The consolidated statement of operations data for the period from January 7, 2003 (inception) to December 31, 2003 and the consolidated balance sheets data as of December 31, 2003 and 2004 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements not included in this prospectus. The consolidated statements of operations data for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2007 have been derived from our unaudited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The unaudited consolidated financial statements include, in the opinion of management, all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, that management considers necessary for the fair presentation of the financial information set forth in those financial statements. You should read this financial data in conjunction with the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and our consolidated financial statements, related notes and other financial information included elsewhere in this prospectus. We derived the consolidated financial data presented below from our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes. The consolidated financial data in this section is not intended to replace the consolidated financial statements and is qualified in its entirety by the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in this prospectus. Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected in the future.
 
Consolidated Statements of Operations Data(1)
 
                                                 
    Period from
                               
    January 7
                               
    (inception) to
                      Nine Months
 
    December 31,
    Year Ended December 31,     Ended September 30,  
    2003     2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
                            (unaudited)  
    (in thousands)  
 
Revenues
  $ 5,313     $ 18,122     $ 44,040     $ 54,720     $ 39,932     $ 60,238  
Costs and expenses:
                                               
Content and support
    1,150       3,162       5,262       6,752       4,426       9,974  
Sales and marketing
    3,067       11,015       26,415       35,545       25,065       34,635  
Product development
    203       825       1,064       1,490       991       2,116  
General and administrative
    1,620       1,433       1,831       3,916       2,674       4,299  
                                                 
Total costs and expenses
    6,040       16,435       34,572       47,703       33,156       51,024  
                                                 
Operating income (loss)
    (727 )     1,687       9,468       7,017       6,776       9,214  
Interest and other expenses
                                  (106 )
Interest income
    6       9       39       147       109       117  
                                                 
Income (loss) before income taxes
    (721 )     1,696       9,507       7,164       6,885       9,225  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    (241 )     556       3,223       2,647       2,502       3,093  
                                                 
Net income (loss)
  $ (480 )   $ 1,140     $ 6,284     $ 4,517     $ 4,383     $ 6,132  
                                                 


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    Period from
                               
    January 7
                               
    (inception) to
                      Nine Months
 
    December 31,
    Year Ended December 31,     Ended September 30,  
    2003     2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
                            (unaudited)  
    (in thousands, except per share data)  
 
Net income (loss) per share(2):
                                               
Basic
  $ (0.03 )   $ 0.06     $ 0.31     $ 0.22     $ 0.21     $ 0.30  
Diluted
  $ (0.03 )   $ 0.05     $ 0.28     $ 0.20     $ 0.19     $ 0.27  
Shares used in calculation of basic and diluted net income (loss) per share:
                                               
Basic
    17,534       20,000       20,203       20,505       20,500       20,548  
Diluted
    17,534       22,009       22,480       22,869       22,836       23,122  
 
 
(1) As discussed in Note 11 to our consolidated financial statements, in August 2005, we acquired all of the capital stock of Qwil Company, and in November 2006, we acquired substantially all of the assets of IntelliSense Corporation. The results of operations of those acquired companies have been included in our consolidated financial statements since the day of acquisition.
 
(2) See Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements for an explanation of the method used to calculate basic and diluted net income (loss) per share.
 
Consolidated Balance Sheets Data
 
                                         
                            As of
 
    As of December 31,     September 30,
 
    2003     2004     2005     2006     2007  
                            (unaudited)  
    (in thousands)  
 
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 1,627     $ 1,757     $ 2,983     $ 5,327     $ 9,063  
Working capital
    983       685       4,154       4,438       11,101  
Total assets
    2,465       5,241       15,933       22,961       31,855  
Deferred revenue
    2       155       1,119       1,508       1,299  
Total long-term liabilities
    22       31       1,281       634       356  
Total stockholders’ equity
    1,189       2,329       10,358       15,881       23,138  


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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
 
The following discussion and analysis of the financial condition and results of our operations should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed below. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those identified below, and those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” included elsewhere in this prospectus.
 
Overview
 
We are a leading Information Commerce company that provides intelligence services to consumers over the Internet. Our protection services, verification services and information services help our customers manage personal and information security risks that affect their private, professional and social lives, and help them find and verify information about friends, customers and businesses. We generate revenues primarily from consumers who purchase our intelligence services on a pay-per-use basis and from online advertisers that provide targeted and relevant offers to our customers.
 
We sell our intelligence services through our network of owned and operated websites, including our primary website, www.Intelius.com. Our Intelius network was one of the top 100 most visited web properties in the U.S. for November 2007 according to comScore Media Metrix, a leading Internet audience measurement firm. We have established relationships with leading online portals and directories, including Idearc, InfoSpace, MSN, Yahoo! and YELLOWPAGES.COM, that market our services on their websites and direct visitors to our websites.
 
We were formed in January 2003 and began offering our People Search service in February 2003 and our Background Check service in April 2003. Since then, we have periodically released new intelligence services as well as enhancements and variations of our existing offerings. We have acquired businesses, domain names and other assets that have extended our network of websites and enhanced our ability to market our service offerings. For example, in August 2005 we acquired Qwil Company, which operated addresses.com, for $3.8 million in cash and stock, and, in November 2006 we acquired substantially all of the assets of IntelliSense Corporation, an employment screening business, for $2.5 million in cash and stock.
 
We generate revenues from the sale of intelligence services, on a transaction or subscription basis, and through the sale of advertising on our websites. Our revenues have grown from $18.1 million in 2004 to $44.0 million in 2005, $54.7 million in 2006 and $60.2 million for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007. We generated net income of $1.1 million in 2004, $6.3 million in 2005, $4.5 million in 2006 and $6.1 million for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007.
 
Sources of Revenues
 
We sell our services, which include the license to use our proprietary software to access our platform, primarily to individual consumers, and since 2005 have sold our services to enterprise customers. In 2006, 94% of our revenues represented consumer revenues and 6% represented enterprise revenues. In the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007, consumer revenues accounted for 91% of our total revenues and enterprise revenues accounted for 9% of our total revenues.


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Consumer Revenues
 
Consumer revenues include sales of intelligence services to consumers and fees we charge to online advertisers that provide offers to users of our websites. Our intelligence services include protection services, verification services and information services. The majority of our intelligence services revenues are generated from the sale of our Background Check, Phone Number Verification and People Search services. We sell most of our services on a per transaction basis and promptly deliver the services over the Internet in the form of reports that can be viewed on screen or printed out. Customers of our intelligence services typically pay at the time of purchase over the Internet by credit card, and we recognize revenues at the time of the transaction in accordance with our revenue recognition policies discussed below. We also sell some of our services on a subscription basis, most commonly over a period of one year, for which we charge the customer up front and recognize revenues ratably over the subscription period.
 
Our online advertising revenues include fees from post-transaction advertising, search advertising and display advertising. Revenues from post-transaction advertising are based on cost-per-action, or CPA, arrangements and are recognized when our customers accept an offer for services of a third-party advertiser displayed on our websites. Search advertising revenues are based on cost-per-search, or CPS, arrangements and are recognized when online users complete a search for an advertiser’s information on our websites. Display advertising revenues are based on cost-per-click, or CPC, and cost-per-impression, or CPM, arrangements. Revenues for CPC arrangements are recognized when visitors click on an advertisement displayed on our websites and revenues for CPM arrangements are generated based on the number of times an advertisement is displayed.
 
Enterprise Revenues
 
Enterprise revenues include sales of services to businesses and other organizations. Enterprise services include Employment Screening, Tenant Screening and marketing services. We recognize revenues as services are delivered, in accordance with our revenue recognition policies discussed below, and we bill our enterprise customers monthly based on the number of services delivered.
 
Costs and Expenses
 
Content and Support
 
Content and support costs consist of content, customer support, credit card processing and website maintenance costs. To provide our intelligence services, we draw upon a wide variety of offline and online data sources, including third parties that compile public, publicly available and commercial record information, credit bureaus and government agencies. Content costs, which represent the majority of our content and support costs, consist of fees paid to third parties for content or data, as well as internal costs of data processing. Our content fees include fixed monthly fee arrangements for unlimited data access, as well as variable fee arrangements based on data usage. Customer support costs reflect compensation-related expenses for our call center employees. Credit card processing costs consist of transaction processing fees that we incur for credit card collections. Website maintenance costs consist of expenses incurred by our network operations, including personnel, depreciation of network equipment, colocation services and bandwidth fees. Content and support costs also include allocated facilities and other overhead costs.


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Sales and Marketing
 
Sales and marketing expense consists of advertising and marketing programs, compensation and related expenses for our enterprise sales force and other marketing personnel and amortization of intangible assets. The majority of our sales and marketing expense is related to online advertising and marketing initiatives to attract visitors to our websites and sell our services. Our online advertising and marketing relationships require us to make payments according to revenue sharing, CPC, CPM or fixed fee pay structures. We also incur additional expenses to develop our brand, including expenses relating to broadcast and print advertising, trade shows, marketing collateral and public relations.
 
Amortization of marketing-related and customer-related intangible assets and other related costs consist primarily of amortization expense for domain names that we have acquired to attract more direct customer traffic, including domain names and customer relationships we obtained through acquisitions. Sales and marketing costs also include allocated facilities and other overhead costs.
 
Product Development
 
Product development expense consists primarily of research and development activities to develop new service offerings and significantly enhance existing service offerings. This cost includes compensation-related expense, allocated facilities and other overhead costs.
 
General and Administrative
 
General and administrative expense consists of compensation-related expense, costs of legal, consulting and accounting services, allocated facilities and other overhead costs, state and local taxes and insurance costs.
 
Stock-Based Compensation
 
Stock-based compensation consists of compensation expense related to grants to employees of stock options, restricted stock units and restricted stock awards. Prior to January 1, 2006, we accounted for stock-based employee compensation arrangements in accordance with the provisions of Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees,” or APB 25, and related interpretations, and followed the disclosure provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, or SFAS, No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation.”
 
Under APB 25, compensation expense is based on the difference, if any, on the date of the grant, between the fair value of our common stock and the exercise price of the equity award. The fair value of the shares of common stock that underlie the stock options we have granted has historically been determined by our Board of Directors. Because there has been no public market for our common stock, our Board has determined the fair value of our common stock at the time of grant of the option based on periodic valuation reports provided by an independent third party. Our Board has granted all stock options since our inception at exercise prices equal to the fair market value of our common stock based on these valuations. Accordingly, we have not recorded any stock-based compensation expense prior to January 1, 2006.
 
Effective January 1, 2006, we adopted the provisions of SFAS 123(R), “Share-Based Payment.” SFAS 123(R) requires measurement of compensation expense for all stock-based awards at fair value on the date of grant and recognition of compensation expense over the service period for awards expected to vest. Stock-based compensation expense recognized for


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2006 included compensation expense for all stock-based payments granted prior to, but not yet vested as of, January 1, 2006, based on the grant date fair value estimated in accordance with the original provisions of SFAS 123, and compensation expense for all stock-based payments granted after January 1, 2006, based on the grant date fair value estimated in accordance with the provisions of SFAS 123(R).
 
We recorded stock-based compensation expense of $0.5 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2006, $0.7 million in the year ended December 31, 2006 and $1.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2007. At September 30, 2007, we had $5.1 million of unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested stock options. The weighted-average period over which we expect to recognize this expense is approximately 3.6 years.
 
We allocate stock-based compensation expense among customer support under content and support costs, and under sales and marketing, product development and general and administrative expenses, based on the job function of the holders of the outstanding stock options as follows (in thousands):
 
                         
          Nine Months
 
    Year Ended
    Ended
 
    December 31,     September 30,  
    2006     2006     2007  
          (unaudited)  
 
Content and support
  $ 14     $      8     $ 30  
Sales and marketing
    218       155       340  
Product development
    106       74       128  
General and administrative
    387       280       528  
                         
Total
  $ 725     $ 517     $ 1,026  
                         
 
Results of Operations
 
Over the period from 2004 through September 30, 2007, our revenues and the costs associated with our operations have generally increased, which has resulted in net income in each quarterly period at fluctuating levels.
 
The principal contributors to our increasing revenues have been new distribution arrangements, acquisitions of websites, new service introductions and service enhancements and the introduction of online advertising on our websites.
 
Costs and expenses as a percentage of revenues decreased in 2005 due to our rapid revenue growth. During 2006 and the first nine months of 2007, we made investments in personnel and infrastructure, content and sales and marketing to support revenue growth, which increased our costs and expenses as a percentage of revenues.


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The following table provides financial data for the periods indicated as a percentage of total revenues:
 
                                         
    Year Ended
    Nine Months Ended
 
    December 31,     September 30,  
    2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
                      (unaudited)  
 
Revenues
    100.0 %     100.0 %     100.0 %     100.0 %     100.0 %
Costs and expenses:
                                       
Content and support
    17.4       11.9       12.3       11.1       16.6  
Sales and marketing
    60.8       60.0       65.0       62.8       57.5  
Product development
    4.6       2.4       2.7       2.5       3.5  
General and administrative
    7.9       4.2       7.2       6.7       7.1  
                                         
Total costs and expenses
    90.7       78.5       87.2       83.1       84.7  
                                         
Operating income
    9.3       21.5       12.8       16.9       15.3  
Interest and other expense
                            (0.2 )
Interest income
    0.0       0.1       0.3       0.3       0.2  
                                         
Income before income taxes
    9.3       21.6       13.1       17.2       15.3  
Provision for income taxes
    3.0       7.3       4.8       6.2       5.1  
                                         
Net income
    6.3 %     14.3 %     8.3 %     11.0 %     10.2 %
                                         
 
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2007
 
Revenues
 
                         
    Nine Months Ended September 30,     Percent
 
    2006     2007     Increase  
    (unaudited)        
 
Revenues (in thousands)
  $ 39,932     $ 60,238       50.9 %
 
The increase in revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2007, as compared to the corresponding period of 2006, was due primarily to the increase in consumer revenues, consisting of sales of intelligence services and advertising.
 
Intelligence services revenues increased from $36.4 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2006 to $42.3 million in the corresponding period of 2007, primarily due to the increased volume of sales of our existing services and the addition of new marketing relationships.
 
Advertising revenues increased from $1.6 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2006 to $12.2 million in the corresponding period of 2007. The increase in advertising revenues was driven by the expansion of our search distribution channels and the introduction of post-transaction advertising in July 2007.
 
Two of our online advertising service customers, Yellow Book USA, Inc. and Adaptive Marketing LLC, accounted for 11.1% and 10.8%, respectively, of our total revenues in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007. No customer accounted for greater than 10% of our total revenues in the nine months ended September 30, 2006.
 
Enterprise revenues increased from $1.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2006 to $5.7 million in the corresponding period of 2007, primarily due to increased sales of


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Employment Screening as a result of our acquisition of IntelliSense Corporation in November 2006.
 
Costs and Expenses
 
Content and Support
 
                         
    Nine Months Ended
       
    September 30,     Percent
 
    2006     2007     Increase  
    (unaudited)        
 
Content and support (in thousands)
  $ 4,426     $ 9,974       125.4 %
Content and support (as % of total revenues)
    11.1 %     16.6 %        
 
Content and support costs increased by $5.5 million for the nine-month period ended September 2007 compared to the corresponding period of 2006, primarily due to increases in the costs for content, website maintenance and customer support. Of this increase, $2.2 million represented content costs and personnel-related expenses associated with our IntelliSense operations and our enterprise offerings, and $1.7 million represented content costs associated with increased volume of sales to consumers. In addition, approximately $1.6 million was due to higher compensation-related expense and higher costs related to the expansion of website capacity, infrastructure and customer support.
 
We expect our content and support costs to increase as we introduce new services that require new sources of data. We expect content and support costs to decline as a percentage of revenues as advertising revenues increase and as we continue to utilize fixed-fee, unlimited usage arrangements for some of our data sources.
 
Sales and Marketing
 
                         
    Nine Months Ended
       
    September 30,     Percent
 
    2006     2007     Increase  
    (unaudited)        
 
Sales and marketing (in thousands)
  $ 25,065     $ 34,635       38.2 %
Sales and marketing (as % of total revenues)
    62.8 %     57.5 %        
 
Sales and marketing expense increased by $9.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period of 2006. $7.0 million of this increase reflects payments for online advertising in connection with increased sales and expanded programs with our distribution partners. An additional $1.4 million is associated with higher compensation expense of our growing sales and marketing staff, including revenue-based commissions and stock-based compensation. The remainder is associated with the increased amortization of intangible assets and other marketing programs.
 
We expect sales and marketing expense to increase as we enter into new distribution relationships and expand existing advertising relationships to grow our business. We expect our revenues to grow at a faster rate than our sales and marketing expense in the near term as a result of the increase in advertising revenues in our total revenues mix, as well as a result of the increase in direct traffic to our websites as customers become more familiar with the services we offer.


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Product Development
 
                         
    Nine Months Ended
       
    September 30,     Percent
 
    2006     2007     Increase  
    (unaudited)        
 
Product development (in thousands)
  $   991     $ 2,116       113.5 %
Product development (as % of total revenues)
    2.5 %     3.5 %        
 
Product development expense increased by $1.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period of 2006. This increase was principally attributable to an increase in compensation expense of $1.0 million, including stock-based compensation, related to the hiring of additional personnel. The remainder of this increase was due to an increase in other expenses associated with this increase in headcount.
 
We expect product development expense to increase as we continue to hire additional personnel to expand and enhance our intelligence service offerings. We expect product development expense to decline as a percentage of revenues as we expect our revenues to grow at a faster rate than these expenses.
 
General and Administrative
 
                         
    Nine Months Ended
       
    September 30,     Percent
 
    2006     2007     Increase  
    (unaudited)        
 
General and administrative (in thousands)
  $ 2,674     $ 4,299       60.8 %
General and administrative (as % of total revenues)
    6.7 %     7.1 %        
 
General and administrative expense increased by $1.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period of 2006. Of this amount, $1.0 million was attributable to higher compensation expense, including stock-based compensation, related to the hiring of additional personnel, and $0.3 million was attributable to the increase in professional fees for legal, accounting and consulting services. The remainder of the increase was attributable to higher allocated corporate overhead expenses.
 
We expect general and administrative expense to increase as a percentage of revenues in the near term primarily reflecting increased costs associated with becoming a public company, including additional staff and increased legal, accounting and consulting fees. However, we expect general and administrative expense to decline as a percentage of revenues in the long term, as we expect our revenues to grow at a faster rate than these expenses.
 
Income Taxes
 
For the nine months ended September 30, 2007, we recognized a $3.1 million provision for income taxes, compared to $2.5 million for the corresponding period of 2006, due to the increase in our pre-tax income. However, our effective tax rate of 33.5% for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 was lower than the effective rate of 36.2% for the corresponding period of 2006, due primarily to non-deductible permanent differences in 2006 resulting from the legal and accounting costs incurred as we began preparation for our initial public offering.


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Years Ended December 31, 2005 and 2006
 
Revenues
 
                         
    Year Ended
       
    December 31,     Percent
 
    2005     2006     Increase  
 
Revenues (in thousands)
  $ 44,040     $ 54,720       24.3 %
 
The increase in revenues for 2006 compared to 2005 was due to the increased sales volume of several of our intelligence services, including our Background Check, Phone Number Verification and Employment Screening services, and due to an increase in advertising revenues. Our intelligence services revenues increased from $42.7 million in 2005 to $48.6 million in 2006. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in sales of our People Search service as a result of the termination of a significant distribution relationship promoting this service. Advertising revenues, which principally consisted of the sale of CPS advertising on the addresses.com website we acquired in August 2005, increased from $0.3 million in 2005 to $3.0 million in 2006. Enterprise revenues increased from $1.0 million in 2005 to $3.1 million in 2006. No customer accounted for greater than 10% of our total revenues in the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2006.
 
Costs and Expenses
 
Content and Support
 
                         
    Year Ended
       
    December 31,     Percent
 
    2005     2006     Increase  
 
Content and support (in thousands)
  $ 5,262     $ 6,752       28.3 %
Content and support (as % of revenues)
    11.9 %     12.3 %        
 
The increase in content and support costs in 2006 over 2005 of $1.5 million was primarily due to increases in cost of content, customer support costs and costs of website maintenance. Approximately $1.0 million of this increase was due to higher cost of content as a result of our decision to switch to fixed-fee, unlimited usage arrangements for some of our data sources. The remainder of the increase was attributable to compensation-related expense related to the growth of our customer support, data processing and network operations departments, as well as costs associated with website maintenance, primarily due to expansion of our website capacity and infrastructure.
 
Sales and Marketing
 
                         
    Year Ended
       
    December 31,     Percent
 
    2005     2006     Increase  
 
Sales and marketing (in thousands)
  $ 26,415     $ 35,545       34.6 %
Sales and marketing (as % of total revenues)
    60.0 %     65.0 %        
 
Sales and marketing expense increased by $9.1 million in 2006 compared with 2005. Of this amount, $4.4 million reflected higher payments for our online advertising in connection with increased sales and $1.7 million was attributable to the print and broadcast advertising campaigns we conducted during 2006 to develop our brand. In addition, $1.7 million was attributable to increased amortization of intangible assets and the remainder of the increase was associated with increases in sales and marketing personnel and compensation expense and our adoption of SFAS 123(R).


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Product Development
 
                         
    Year Ended
       
    December 31,     Percent
 
    2005     2006     Increase  
 
Product development (in thousands)
  $ 1,064     $ 1,490       40.0 %
Product development (as % of total revenues)
    2.4 %     2.7 %        
 
Product development expense increased by $0.4 million in 2006 compared with 2005. This increase was principally attributable to increases in personnel and stock-based compensation expenses and our adoption of SFAS 123(R).
 
General and Administrative
 
                         
    Year Ended
       
    December 31,     Percent
 
    2005     2006     Increase  
 
General and administrative (in thousands)
  $ 1,831     $ 3,916       113.9 %
General and administrative (as % of total revenues)
    4.2 %     7.2 %        
 
General and administrative expense increased by $2.1 million in 2006 compared with 2005. Of this amount, $1.3 million was attributable to increases in outside consulting fees for legal and accounting services. The remainder of the increase was largely attributable to increases in personnel and other costs related to our preparation to be a public company and our adoption of SFAS 123(R).
 
Income Taxes
 
For the year ended December 31, 2006, we recognized a $2.6 million provision for income taxes, compared to $3.2 million in the year ended December 31, 2005, due to the decrease in our taxable income for the related periods. However, our effective tax rate of 36.9% for 2006 was higher than the effective rate of 33.9% for 2005, due primarily to non-deductible permanent differences in 2006 resulting from the legal, accounting and consulting costs incurred as we began preparation for our initial public offering.
 
Years Ended December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2005
 
Revenues
 
                         
    Year Ended
       
    December 31,     Percent
 
    2004     2005     Increase  
 
Revenues (in thousands)
  $ 18,122     $ 44,040       143.0 %
 
The increase in revenues in 2005 compared to 2004 was due in large part to the expansion of our distribution relationships. In particular, the revenue increase was caused by sales activity generated through new distribution relationships with InfoSpace and Yahoo!. The remainder of this increase was due to an increase in direct traffic sales, enhancements and upgrades to existing services and the introduction of several additional service offerings in late 2004 and early 2005, including Phone Number Verification. No customer accounted for greater than 10% of our total revenues in the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005.


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Costs and Expenses
 
Content and Support
 
                         
    Year Ended
       
    December 31,     Percent
 
    2004     2005     Increase  
 
Content and support (in thousands)
  $ 3,162     $ 5,262       66.4 %
Content and support (as % of revenues)
    17.4 %     11.9 %        
 
The $2.1 million increase in content and support costs in 2005 compared to 2004 was primarily due to growth in sales volume and the release of new service offerings, resulting in corresponding growth in content costs and the expansion in customer support and network operations. In particular, higher sales volume from our InfoSpace and Yahoo! relationships contributed to the need to expand our operations.
 
In particular, we experienced a $0.9 million increase in credit card processing fees and a $0.8 million increase in content costs, with both increases reflecting the growth of sales volume. Higher content costs were also attributable to new sources of data in connection with our development and release of new service offerings. The remainder of the increase in content and support costs was related to the growth of our customer support department and expansion of our network infrastructure.
 
Sales and Marketing
 
                         
    Year Ended
       
    December 31,     Percent
 
    2004     2005     Increase  
 
Sales and marketing (in thousands)
  $ 11,015     $ 26,415       139.8 %
Sales and marketing (as % of total revenues)
    60.8 %     60.0 %        
 
The $15.4 million increase in sales and marketing expense in 2005 compared to 2004 was due primarily to higher traffic and sales through our distribution relationships and our formation of new advertising relationships. Of the total increase in sales and marketing expense, $13.9 million was related to the increase in payments to distribution partners and other online advertisers.
 
The remainder of the increase in sales and marketing expense reflects the increases in compensation-related expense as we continued to grow our sales and marketing department, and the increase in amortization of domain names, primarily due to the purchase of domains with the acquisition of the Qwil Company in August 2005.
 
Product Development
 
                         
    Year Ended
       
    December 31,     Percent
 
    2004     2005     Increase  
 
Product development (in thousands)
  $ 825     $ 1,064       29.0 %
Product development (as % of total revenues)
    4.6 %     2.4 %        
 
The $0.2 million increase in product development expense in 2005 compared to 2004 was due primarily to higher compensation-related expense as a result of an increase in product development personnel as we expanded our operations to meet increased customer demand and launched new service offerings.


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General and Administrative
 
                         
    Year Ended
       
    December 31,     Percent
 
    2004     2005     Increase  
 
General and administrative (in thousands)
  $ 1,433     $ 1,831       27.8 %
General and administrative (as % of total revenues)
    7.9 %     4.2 %        
 
The $0.4 million increase in general and administrative expense in 2005 compared to 2004 was primarily due to higher compensation-related expense as a result of growth in our finance and legal departments, and to a lesser extent, increased costs for accounting consulting services and insurance coverage.
 
Income Taxes
 
Our net loss in 2003 resulted in a net operating loss carryforward position for federal income tax purposes as of December 31, 2003. We fully utilized this tax carryforward in 2004. In 2004 and 2005, we recorded provisions of $0.6 million and $3.2 million for income taxes related to increases in pre-tax income during these periods. Our effective tax rate increased slightly from 32.8% in 2004 to 33.9% in 2005, due to higher pre-tax income.


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Quarterly Results of Operations
 
The following tables provide our unaudited results of operations, for each quarter in the seven-quarter period ended September 30, 2007. In our opinion, this unaudited information has been prepared on the same basis as our audited consolidated financial statements. This information includes all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of the information for the quarters presented when read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the notes to our consolidated financial statements. The results of operations for any quarter are not necessarily indicative of our future results.
 
                                                         
    Three Months Ended  
    Mar. 31,
    Jun. 30,
    Sept. 30,
    Dec. 31,
    Mar. 31,
    Jun. 30,
    Sept. 30,
 
    2006     2006     2006     2006     2007     2007     2007  
    (unaudited)  
    (in thousands)  
 
Revenues
  $ 13,759     $ 11,877     $ 14,296     $ 14,788     $ 17,242     $ 17,745     $ 25,251  
Costs and expenses:
                                                       
Content and support
    1,403       1,417       1,606       2,326       2,899       3,512       3,563  
Sales and marketing
    7,960       7,437       9,668       10,480       10,668       11,016       12,951  
Product development
    280       314       397       499       509       657       950  
General and administrative
    472       823       1,379       1,242       1,197       1,493       1,609  
                                                         
Total costs and expenses
    10,115       9,991       13,050       14,547       15,273       16,678       19,073  
                                                         
Operating income
    3,644       1,886       1,246       241       1,969       1,067       6,178  
Interest and other expenses
                                  103       3  
Interest income
    21       55       33       38       44       37       36  
                                                         
Income before income taxes
    3,665       1,941       1,279       279       2,013       1,001       6,211  
Provision for income taxes
    1,248       665       589       145       711       261       2,121  
                                                         
Net income
  $ 2,417     $ 1,276     $ 690     $ 134     $ 1,302     $ 740     $ 4,090  
                                                         
 
We experience some seasonality that has contributed to the fluctuation of our quarterly revenues. We believe such seasonality is largely attributable to the number of weekdays and holidays in the quarter.
 
Our revenues declined from the first quarter of 2006 to the second quarter of 2006 primarily as a result of the termination of a distribution relationship and the decline in the number of visitors from another website we rely upon to drive traffic to our websites.
 
Our revenues increased in the third quarter of 2006 relative to the second quarter of 2006 primarily as a result of the introduction of search advertising.
 
Our revenues increased in the third quarter of 2007 relative to the second quarter of 2007 primarily as a result of the introduction of post-transaction advertising.
 
Our content and support costs increased in the fourth quarter of 2006 relative to the third quarter of 2006 due to an increase in costs related to IntelliSense Corporation, which we acquired during the fourth quarter of 2006.


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In the first quarter of 2007, we began accelerating our investment in content and support infrastructure required to introduce new service offerings in the second half of 2007. This is reflected in our increased content and support costs in the first and second quarters of 2007.
 
In the second half of 2006, we began testing broadcast advertising campaign, which resulted in an increase in sales and marketing expense in the third and fourth quarters. Our sales and marketing expense increased in the third quarter of 2007 related to a significant increase in revenues.
 
Our product development expense has continued to increase due to growth in our engineering staff dedicated to new service development. Our general and administrative expense has continued to increase as a result of the increase in our finance and accounting personnel and increased professional fees related to our preparation to become a public company.
 
Liquidity and Capital Resources
 
Since our inception, we have funded our operations and met our capital expenditure requirements primarily from cash flow from operations and the sale of equity securities. As of December 31, 2006 and as of September 30, 2007, we had $5.3 million and $9.1 million, respectively, in cash and cash equivalents. Our working capital as of December 31, 2006 and as of September 30, 2007 was $4.4 million and $11.1 million, respectively.
 
The following table presents a summary of our cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006 and for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2007 (in thousands):
 
                                         
          Nine Months Ended
 
    Year Ended December 31,     September 30,  
    2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
                      (unaudited)  
 
Net cash provided by operating activities
  $ 703     $ 4,119     $ 9,308     $ 6,779     $ 5,618  
Net cash used in investing activities
    (573 )     (2,368 )     (6,872 )     (4,449 )     (1,981 )
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
          (525 )     (92 )     (155 )     99  
 
Historically, our Chief Executive Officer paid a significant component of our Internet advertising and other operating expenses on our behalf, using his personal credit card, and was reimbursed by us. Use of our Chief Executive Officer’s personal credit provided us with access to higher credit limits and provided us with greater financial and operational flexibility. These payments aggregated $14.3 million from our inception through December 31, 2006, including $4.2 million during 2005 and $3.6 million during 2006. In the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007, the costs of Internet advertising paid through this credit card amounted to $76,000, and since the beginning of the third quarter of 2007, we no longer used this credit card to pay for those expenses. Our Chief Executive Officer also guaranteed rental payments on one of our leases that expired in October 2005, which aggregated $0.2 million from inception to October 2005 and $49,000 in 2005.
 
Operating Activities
 
Our operating activities resulted in net cash inflows of $0.7 million, $4.1 million and $9.3 million in 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. Our operating activities resulted in net cash inflows of $6.8 million and $5.6 million in the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2007, respectively. The operating cash inflows during these periods resulted primarily from net income.


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The difference between our net income and our operating cash inflows is attributable to non-cash expenses included in net income, and changes in the operating assets and liabilities, as presented below (in thousands):
 
                                         
          Nine Months Ended
 
    Year Ended December 31,     September 30,  
    2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
                      (unaudited)  
 
Net income
  $ 1,140     $ 6,284     $ 4,517     $ 4,383     $ 6,132  
Add: non-cash expenses
    131       790       3,364       2,346       3,786  
Add (deduct): changes in operating assets and liabilities
    (568 )     (2,955 )     1,427       50       (4,300 )
                                         
Net cash provided by operating activities
  $ 703     $ 4,119     $ 9,308     $ 6,779     $ 5,618  
                                         
 
Non-cash expenses are associated with the amortization of databases and other intangible assets, depreciation and amortization of property and equipment, and compensation expenses resulting from the issuance of stock options.
 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities primarily reflect changes in working capital components of the balance sheet apart from cash and cash equivalents, and also changes in long-term deferred revenue and long-term deferred tax assets and liabilities as well as changes in non-current deposits.
 
Investing Activities
 
Cash used in investing activities was $0.6 million, $2.4 million and $6.9 million in 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. Cash used in investing activities was $4.5 million and $2.0 million in the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2007, respectively. Net cash outflows from investing activities in 2004 were primarily the result of purchases of property and equipment, databases and other intangible assets. In 2005 and in 2006, in addition to asset purchases, the net cash outflows from investing activities also reflected acquisitions of businesses. In 2005, $1.7 million of cash was paid in connection with the acquisition of Qwil Company, net of the cash balance acquired. In 2006, $2.2 million in cash was paid in connection with the acquisition of IntelliSense Corporation. In 2006, cash used in investing activities also included $3.7 million of expenditures relating to the acquisition of domain names.
 
In the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, net cash outflows from investing activities were the result of asset purchases. In the nine-month period ended September 30, 2006, the outflows were largely from the purchases of domain names, while in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007, the outflows reflect primarily the purchases of property and equipment related to the expansion of the network operational capacity and the expansion of office facilities to support our growing company.
 
Financing Activities
 
We did not use any cash for, or receive any cash from, financing activities in 2004.
 
Cash used in financing activities of $0.5 million in 2005 reflected a partial repayment of a loan to a stockholder. Cash used in financial activities of $0.1 million in 2006 also reflected the final repayment of $0.2 million of this loan. Our acquisition of Qwil Company in August 2005 resulted in indebtedness to the primary shareholder of Qwil, which we repaid in several installments during the second half of 2005 and in the first quarter of 2006.


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In 2006, the cash outflows from financing activities were partially offset by proceeds of issuance of stock for employee stock options.
 
In the nine-month period ended September 30, 2006, the net outflows reflect the loan repayment to the Qwil shareholder, described above. In the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007, the net inflows reflect primarily the proceeds from issuance of stock for employee stock options.
 
We believe the net proceeds we will receive from this offering, together with our existing cash, cash equivalents and investments and any operating cash flow, will be sufficient to meet our projected operating and capital expenditure requirements for at least the next 12 months. However, our ability to generate cash is subject to our performance, general economic conditions, industry trends and other factors. To the extent that funds from this offering, together with existing cash, cash equivalents and investments, are insufficient to fund our future activities, we may need to raise additional funds through public or private equity or debt financing. If additional funds are obtained by issuing equity securities, substantial dilution to existing stockholders may result. We may be unable to secure additional funds on terms favorable to us or at all.
 
Contractual Obligations and Contingencies
 
We lease office space under operating leases that are not cancelable. Our facilities commitments include leases for our corporate headquarters in Bellevue, Washington and for our Employment Screening operations office in Bothell, Washington. Small sales offices are leased in a few other states. Our operating leases expire at various times between 2008 and 2012.
 
Since March 2007, we have leased certain computer equipment under a three-year capital lease.
 
Our purchase obligations include primarily the arrangements to acquire data that we use to provide our intelligence services, as well as guaranteed minimums on certain advertising contracts and payments for hosting our network operations center.
 
Our contractual commitments at September 30, 2007 are presented below (in thousands):
 
                                         
          Payment Due by Period  
          Due in Fourth
    Due in 2008-
    Due in 2010-
       
    Total     Quarter 2007     2009     2011     Thereafter  
 
Operating lease obligations
  $ 4,607     $ 244     $ 1,929     $ 1,909     $   525  
Capital lease obligations
    146       15       116       15        
Purchase obligations
    4,703       761       3,242       700        
                                         
Total
  $ 9,456     $ 1,020     $ 5,287     $ 2,624     $ 525  
                                         
 
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
 
We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as such term is defined under Item 303 of Regulation S-K.
 
Critical Accounting Policies
 
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conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate significant estimates used in preparing our financial statements, including those related to:
 
  •  revenue recognition, including sales returns and allowances;
 
  •  stock-based compensation;
 
  •  the allocation of purchase price in business combinations to intangible assets; and
 
  •  accounting for goodwill and other long-lived intangible assets.
 
We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates if our assumptions change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions.
 
We believe the following critical accounting policies affect the more significant judgments and estimates used in preparing our consolidated financial statements.
 
Revenue Recognition
 
We recognize revenues when the following four revenue recognition criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or services have been rendered, the selling price is fixed or determinable, and collectibility is reasonably assured.
 
In general, we generate revenues either by charging our customers fees for intelligence services or by selling advertising on our websites.
 
We sell intelligence services to consumers on a transaction or subscription basis. Our customers receive our intelligence services in the form of reports delivered instantly over the Internet at the time of sale. Consumers typically pay at the time of purchase by credit card. In addition, we sell subscriptions to periodic reports such as our Background Monitoring service, and continuous services such as our IDWatch service.
 
We also sell intelligence services that are comprised of screening, such as employment and tenant screening, and marketing services, such as lead generation and data cleansing, to enterprises. Those services are sold on a transaction or subscription basis. Enterprise customers are ordinarily billed on a monthly basis; however, we also make prepayment arrangements available to our customers.
 
All of our intelligence services include a license to use our proprietary software to access our platform. Each transaction is considered a single delivered element. As a result, the entire fee is recognized when the reports are delivered to the customer. We do not provide post-contract support services and have no ongoing obligation after the delivery of the reports.
 
Unearned revenues are recorded when payments are made by customers for volume purchases of reports in advance of report delivery and amortized into revenues as the reports are delivered. Revenues from the sale of subscriptions to periodic reports and continuous services are recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the agreement, ranging from three months to three years.
 
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Issues Task Force Issue 99-19 (EITF 99-19), “Reporting Revenue Gross as a Principal versus Net as an Agent.”
 
We also generate revenues from performance-based advertising for online advertisers through post-transaction, search and display advertisements placed on selected sections of our websites.
 
Revenues from post-transaction advertising are based on CPA arrangements. Revenues generated from CPA arrangements are recognized when our customers accept an offer for services of a third-party advertiser displayed on our websites.
 
Search advertising revenues are based on CPS arrangements. Revenues are generated when online users complete a search for an advertiser’s information on our websites.
 
Revenues from display advertising are derived from CPC and CPM arrangements. In the case of CPC arrangements, we generate revenues from the display of text and image based links to the websites of our advertisers, which are placed on our websites. We recognize revenues from these arrangements as “click-throughs” occur. A “click-through” occurs when a user clicks on an advertiser’s listing. Revenues on CPM contracts are recognized as “impressions” (the number of times that an advertisement appears in pages viewed by users of our websites) are delivered.
 
We are able to determine that the criteria for revenue recognition have been met by examining objective data, and the only estimates that we generally have to make regarding revenue recognition pertain to the collectibility of the resulting receivable and the estimation of future returns.
 
We record a provision for estimated sales returns in the same period the related revenues are recorded. These estimates are based on historical sales return rates and other known factors. If the historical data we use to calculate these estimates do not properly reflect future returns, then a change in the allowances would be made in the period in which such a determination is made and revenues in that period could be materially affected.
 
Allowance for doubtful accounts is recorded based on volume of past due accounts, our historical experience, as well as upon assessment of various other factors. Significant judgment is required when we assess the ultimate realization of receivables, including the probability of collection and the creditworthiness of each customer.
 
Stock-based Compensation
 
In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, issued SFAS 123(R), “Share-Based Payment,” which requires companies to recognize compensation expense for all stock-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, in their statements of operations based on the fair value of the awards, and we adopted SFAS 123(R) as of January 1, 2006.
 
Determining the appropriate fair-value model and calculating the fair value of stock-based awards at the date of grant using any valuation model requires judgment. We use the Black-Scholes option pricing model to estimate the fair value of employee stock options, consistent with the provisions of SFAS 123(R). Option pricing models, including the Black-Scholes model, require the use of input assumptions, including expected volatility, expected term, expected dividend rate and expected risk-free rate of return. Because our stock is not currently publicly traded, we do not have observable share-price volatility; therefore, we estimate our expected volatility based on that of similar publicly-traded companies and expect to continue to do so until such time as we might have adequate historical data from our own traded share price. We estimated our options’ expected terms using our best estimate of the period of time from the


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grant date that we expect the options to remain outstanding. If we determine another method to estimate expected volatility or expected term was more reasonable than our current methods, or if another method for calculating these input assumptions is prescribed by authoritative guidance, the fair value calculated for stock options could change significantly. Higher volatility and expected terms result in a proportional increase to stock-based compensation determined at the date of grant. The expected dividend rate and expected risk-free rate of return are not as significant to the calculation of fair value.
 
In addition, SFAS 123(R) requires us to develop an estimate of the number of stock-based awards which will be forfeited due to employee turnover. Quarterly changes in the estimated forfeiture rate can have a significant effect on reported stock-based compensation. If the actual forfeiture rate is higher than the estimated forfeiture rate, then an adjustment is made to increase the estimated forfeiture rate, which will result in a decrease to the expense recognized in the financial statements during the quarter of the change. If the actual forfeiture rate is lower than the estimated forfeiture rate, then an adjustment is made to decrease the estimated forfeiture rate, which will result in an increase to the expense recognized in the financial statements. These adjustments affect our content and support costs, selling and marketing expense, and general and administrative expense. For 2006 and the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007, the effect of forfeiture adjustments on our financial statements has been insignificant. The expense we recognize in future periods could differ significantly from the current period and/or our forecasts due to adjustments in the assumed forfeiture rates.
 
The fair value of our common stock during the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2007 was determined by our Board of Directors with assistance from our management. In conducting the contemporaneous valuations, we used a two-step methodology that first estimated the fair value of our company as a whole and then allocated a portion of the enterprise value to our common stock. This approach is consistent with the methods outlined in the AICPA Practice Aid, “Valuation of Privately-Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation.”
 
The valuation methodology used included both an “income approach” and a “market approach” to estimate enterprise value. The income approach involved forecasting future cash flow and discounting those cash flows to present value using an equity discount rate of 21%. Future cash flows were estimated by our management based on several factors, including:
 
  •  historical results;
 
  •  recently acquired assets;
 
  •  key customer contracts; and
 
  •  addition of new revenue opportunities.
 
The discount rate was estimated using the capital asset pricing model with a beta coefficient derived from guideline public companies.
 
The market approach consisted of identifying eight publicly-traded companies in the information retrieval services industries, computing pricing metrics such as “enterprise value to revenue” and “enterprise value to EBITDA” and applying these metrics to our revenues and EBITDA, respectively.
 
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To allocate enterprise value to the various securities that comprise our capital structure, the probability expected return method was used. This allocation model was selected based on our belief that an initial public offering could be consummated in the foreseeable future and the potential increase in the value of our common stock that would accompany such an event. In implementing the probability expected return method, we:
 
  •  estimated an initial public offering price based on management’s revenue forecast and current pricing metrics;
 
  •  assigned a value to the company under a “stay private” scenario based on the income and market approaches discussed previously; and
 
  •  assigned probability of occurrence to each of these potential outcomes based on our performance and stock market conditions.
 
Future value was then allocated to our equity securities based on each classes’ rights and preferences. The allocated future value of each class of equity security was then discounted to the present based on a capital asset pricing model-derived discount rate.
 
Business Combinations Purchase Price Allocation
 
We account for our business combinations using the purchase method of accounting prescribed by SFAS 141, “Business Combinations.” We allocate the total consideration paid in an acquisition to the fair value of the acquired company’s identifiable assets and liabilities. The remainder of consideration is allocated to goodwill.
 
We identify and record separately the intangible assets acquired apart from goodwill based on the specific criteria for separate recognition established in SFAS 141, namely:
 
  •  the asset arises from contractual or other legal rights; or
 
  •  the asset is capable of being separated from the acquired entity and sold, transferred, licensed, rented or exchanged.
 
The application of the purchase method of accounting requires companies to assign values to acquired assets and liabilities, including intangible assets acquired based on their fair value. The determination of fair value for acquired assets, particularly intangible assets, requires a high degree of judgment, and estimates often involve significant subjectivity due to the lack of transparent market data or listed market prices. The choice of different valuation models or assumptions may result in different amounts of goodwill and other acquisition intangible assets and different lives for amortizable intangible assets.
 
Accounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Long-Lived Assets
 
Our business acquisitions have resulted in, and future acquisitions typically will result in, the recording of goodwill, which represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed, including acquired domains or any other definite-lived intangible assets.
 
Pursuant to SFAS 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets,” we test purchased goodwill for impairment at least annually. Application of the goodwill impairment test may require judgments, including those inherent in the determination of fair value of the reporting unit in which the goodwill resides and the resulting determination of the implicit value of the goodwill. Significant judgments required to estimate the fair value include estimating future cash flows, determining appropriate discount rates and other assumptions. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the determination of fair value.


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Separable intangible assets, which consist primarily of domains, databases and customer related intangible assets, are not considered to have indefinite lives and are amortized over their useful lives ranging between three and ten years. The useful life is determined based on historic observations.
 
Management is required to estimate the useful lives of those intangible assets. The estimation of useful lives requires a significant amount of judgment related to matters such as future changes in technology, possible changes in business strategy, legal issues related to allowable uses of data, the relevance of the historic records over passage of time and other matters.
 
In accordance with SFAS 144, “Accounting for the Impairment of Disposal of Long-Lived Assets,” these assets are also reviewed on a regular basis for the existence of facts and circumstances, both internal and external, which may suggest potential impairment. The determination of whether these intangible assets are impaired involves significant judgments based on short- and long-term projections of future performance. Certain of these forecasts reflect assumptions regarding our ability to continue to develop and ultimately to commercialize the products based on these intangible assets, as well as our projections of future cash flows from these products. Changes in strategy and/or market conditions may result in an impairment charge to our operating expenses, which could have an adverse effect on our results of operations.
 
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
 
Our investment portfolio, consisting of fixed income securities, was $3.8 million as of September 30, 2007. These securities, like all fixed income instruments, are subject to interest rate risk and will decline in value if market interest rates increase. If market rates were to increase immediately and uniformly by 10% from the levels of September 30, 2007, the decline in the fair value of our investment portfolio would not be material given that our investments typically have interest rate reset features that regularly adjust to current market rates. Additionally, we have the ability to hold our fixed income investments until maturity and, therefore, we would not expect to recognize any material adverse impact in income or cash flows.
 
We do not purchase or hold any derivative financial instruments for the purpose of speculation or arbitrage.
 
To date we have not recognized any operating revenues and have not entered into any material agreements denominated in other than U.S. dollars. Accordingly we believe we have no material exposure to risk from changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
 
During the normal course of business we could be subjected to a variety of market risks, as we discussed above. We continuously assess these risks and have established policies and procedures to protect against the adverse effects of these and other potential exposures. Although we do not anticipate any material losses in these risk areas, no assurance can be made that material losses will not be incurred in these areas in the future.
 
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
 
In September 2006, FASB issued SFAS 157, “Fair Value Measurements,” which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. This statement applies under other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements, our Board of Directors having previously concluded that fair value is the relevant measurement attribute. Accordingly, this statement does not require any new fair value measurements. This


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statement is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, with a one year deferral for other non-financial assets and liabilities. This statement requires prospective application only and will affect primarily the additional disclosure requirements, in periods after adoption. We are currently evaluating the effects, if any, that the adoption of SFAS 157 will have on our results of operations financial position, cash flows and related disclosures.
 
In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS 159, “The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities-including an amendment of FASB Statement No. 115.” SFAS 159 allows an entity the irrevocable option to elect fair value for the initial and subsequent measurement of certain financial assets and liabilities under an instrument-by-instrument election. Subsequent measurements for the financial assets and liabilities an entity elects to fair value will be recognized in earnings. SFAS 159 also establishes additional disclosure requirements. This standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. We are currently evaluating the effect, if any, that the adoption of SFAS 159 will have on our results of operations, financial position, cash flows and related disclosures.


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BUSINESS
 
Overview
 
We are a leading Information Commerce company that provides intelligence services to consumers over the Internet. Our protection services, verification services and information services help our customers manage personal and information security risks that affect their private, professional and social lives, and help them find and verify information about friends, customers and businesses. We generate revenues primarily from consumers who purchase our intelligence services on a pay-per-use basis and from online advertisers that provide targeted and relevant offers to our customers.
 
We have developed a proprietary service delivery platform that applies our sophisticated heuristics and analytics technologies to publicly and commercially available data to provide our customers with actionable information. Our accurate, timely and useful intelligence services allow our customers to make important decisions regarding people, businesses and assets.
 
We sell our intelligence services through our network of owned and operated websites, including our primary website, www.Intelius.com. Our Intelius network was one of the top 100 most visited web properties in the U.S. for November 2007 according to comScore Media Metrix, a leading Internet audience measurement firm. We have established relationships with leading online portals and directories, including Idearc, InfoSpace, MSN, Yahoo! and YELLOWPAGES.COM, that market our services on their websites and direct visitors to our websites.
 
Since our inception in January 2003, our intelligence services have been purchased by over four million customer accounts. We have experienced rapid growth and have increased our revenues from $18.1 million in 2004 to $54.7 million in 2006, and to $60.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2007.
 
Industry Overview
 
Growth of Commerce and Advertising on the Internet
 
The Internet has become an increasingly important medium for commerce and entertainment, and an important source of information about people and businesses. Consumers are increasingly using free and paid Internet services to contact acquaintances, gather information about people and businesses, and expand social and professional networks. According to comScore Media Metrix, the number of online searches in the U.S. in November 2007 reached approximately 13.9 billion, and Business Week, a leading business publication, reported in July 2007 that over 30% of all online searches are for information about people. While the Internet has become an excellent tool for finding information about people, it also has a wealth of detailed information on commercial products and services, which has been a key contributor to the growth and penetration of the Internet as a retail commerce channel. According to eMarketer, an Internet market research firm, consumer eCommerce sales in the U.S. are expected to reach $243.5 billion in 2011 from $108.7 billion in 2006. Additionally, eMarketer estimates that over 65% of U.S. Internet users purchased a product online in 2006. As online commerce has grown and consumer media consumption has migrated to the Internet, advertisers have begun shifting a greater proportion of their marketing budgets to the Internet. According to IDC, a leading independent research firm, online advertising spending in the U.S. reached $16.9 billion in 2006, an increase of 35% versus 2005, and is projected to increase to $31.4 billion by 2011. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, an Internet industry trade organization, within the online advertising


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market, performance-based advertising, such as cost-per-click and cost-per-action, is the largest and fastest growing segment having grown 55% from 2005 to 2006, representing 47% of the market in 2006.
 
The Need for Intelligence Services
 
In today’s society, individuals and businesses often must make critical decisions based on limited or fragmented information. At the same time, the pace of decision-making has accelerated, and risks associated with decisions have increased, as society has become more mobile and contacts traditionally based upon personal referrals have been replaced by more impersonal networks. In response to these developments, consumers and organizations are increasingly turning to the Internet for intelligence services in order to make better informed decisions about the people, businesses and assets with which they interact. Intelligence services provide consumers and organizations with information to help them identify, monitor, interpret and respond to specific situations and their environment. Intelligence services range from basic intelligence information, such as phone numbers and addresses, to advanced intelligence services, such as background screening, employment verification, fraud protection and credit monitoring.
 
Sources of Information
 
A wealth of existing information can be used to provide intelligence services that combat fraud, manage information security and mitigate personal safety risks. This information falls into the following categories:
 
  •  Public Records.  Public records consist of information that is maintained by government organizations and is generally available, such as property title and lien documents, birth and death certificates, business records, Securities and Exchange Commission filings and court records. In addition, government organizations maintain information available only for restricted uses, including driving records and employment authorizations.
 
  •  Publicly Available Information.  Publicly available information consists of online and offline information that is generally available but is not maintained by a government agency, such as names, addresses and telephone numbers of individuals and businesses, professional licensing and trade organization information, press releases and newspaper articles. Publicly available information is increasingly available over the Internet due to the proliferation of online search engines, social networks and directories.
 
  •  Commercial Records.  Commercial records consist of records maintained by enterprises that are available for purchase, such as mailing and telemarketing lists, phone connect and disconnect information, and business profile data. Additionally, consumer credit profile information is available pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
 
Challenges Faced by Existing Intelligence Services
 
Despite the wealth of available information, most free and paid intelligence services face significant challenges and frequently fail to provide consumers and enterprises with valuable, accurate and timely information about people, businesses and assets. These challenges include:
 
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  •  Failure to Integrate Data from Multiple Sources.  Data currently resides in disparate online and offline sources and in many different formats. In order to analyze the data and present useful information to a consumer, the data must be aggregated and normalized into a consistent, meaningful format.
 
  •  Failure to Cleanse Out-of-Date or Conflicting Data.  Much of the public, publicly available and commercially available information is inaccurate or inconsistent, as many sources fail to regularly update their data and reconcile inaccurate and inconsistent data to create up-to-date records.
 
  •  Lack of Advanced Technologies to Analyze Data.  Most intelligence services do not apply sophisticated heuristics and analytics technologies required to transform raw data into valuable information from which consumers can make useful inferences.
 
  •  Lack of Relevant Information for Specific Decisions.  Many services aggregate large volumes of data but fail to integrate the data and present information in an organized and understandable format that can be used to make decisions.
 
  •  Lack of Automation and Efficiency.  Services that require extensive research, data collection, cleansing and analysis are often performed manually by private search firms and individuals. These services are time intensive, difficult to scale to a large audience and do not provide on-going reporting.
 
  •  Failure to Provide Quality Services at an Affordable Price.  Due to the difficulties and inefficiency in aggregating and reconciling information from a myriad of sources, most service providers are unable to offer quality services at attractive prices to consumers.
 
The Intelius Solution
 
We have developed a proprietary platform from which we deliver accurate, useful and timely intelligence services to consumers over the Internet. Our platform dynamically accesses, collects and integrates data from thousands of online and offline data sources and uses sophisticated heuristics and analytics technologies to cleanse, verify and augment this data in real time to provide our customers with actionable information. Our intelligence services, which include the license to use our proprietary software to access our platform, help our customers make important decisions about people, businesses and assets. These services include protection services, verification services and information services, such as Background Check, People Search, Phone Number Verification and Property and Neighborhood Report. We sell our intelligence services on a pay-per-use basis and enable online advertisers to provide targeted and relevant offers to our customers. Key elements of our solution include:
 
Broad Portfolio of Intelligence Services
 
We offer over 100 intelligence services, including Background Check, Phone Number Verification, People Search, and Property and Neighborhood Report, that address a variety of consumer and business demands. Our services provide consumers with valuable intelligence to address potential safety and security concerns, manage and protect their personal information and enable them to locate businesses or family, friends and colleagues with whom they have lost contact. We also offer enterprise services to provide businesses with tools and services to identify, screen and administer prospective employees, and enhanced intelligence regarding customers, partners and employees that can be used to mitigate risks, reduce costs, increase efficiency and address regulatory requirements.


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Compelling Value and User Experience
 
We deliver a high-quality user experience by delivering valuable services, an intuitive user interface and dedicated customer service at affordable prices. We sell our intelligence services on a pay-per-use basis at price points designed to appeal to a wide cross-section of consumers and to encourage repeat purchase activity. We provide our customers instant access to our services over the Internet through an easy-to-navigate user interface. We actively monitor trends in customer usage and market demand in order to continuously innovate and develop services that anticipate and respond to our customer’s evolving needs. We believe the compelling value and positive user experience we provide enhances customer satisfaction and increases customer loyalty.
 
Useful Information About People, Businesses and Assets
 
Our intelligence services are based on a comprehensive collection of information about people, businesses and assets. The innovative technologies built into our platform enable us to dynamically access, manage, integrate, cleanse and validate massive amounts of data in real time. This data includes more than 15 billion public, publicly available and commercial records from hundreds of internal and external databases and repositories, so that we can provide timely, useful and accurate information that allows our customers to make informed decisions.
 
Proprietary Technologies and Extensible Intelligence Platform
 
We have developed advanced proprietary technologies that access, collect and normalize a broad range of information. Our heuristics and analytics technologies verify and augment multiple terabytes of data from a myriad of sources—in disparate formats and varying degrees of accuracy and completeness—so that we can make inferences and predictions based on this data. For example, our technologies enable us to construct a single identity profile for a person who has changed his or her last name, address or phone number. Furthermore, our intelligence platform gives us the flexibility to develop and quickly bring to market new service offerings based on our existing technologies and information sources. This enables us to develop new sources of revenues without incurring significant incremental development costs.
 
Security and System Reliability
 
Leveraging standards-based technologies, we have implemented industry-leading security measures to enhance customer confidence when they are verifying information or providing it to us. These security measures also conform to the security requirements of our commercial partners, such as credit bureaus and credit card processors. To verify the robustness and compliance of our security technologies, we hire external consultants to perform extensive internal and external security audits on a quarterly basis. Furthermore, our infrastructure is designed to handle expanding volumes of customer visits, transactions and service offerings in an efficient, scalable and fault-tolerant manner.
 
Large Audience and Attractive Customer Base
 
In November 2007, our portfolio of websites that attract users interested in obtaining intelligence services, drew over 10.2 million unique visitors in the U.S., according to comScore Media Metrix. We have generated transactions from over four million customer accounts since our inception. In addition to the visitors who come to our websites directly, we draw visitors through our relationships with leading Internet portals, such as MSN and Yahoo!, that offer our services to their users and direct visitors to our websites. We believe that visitors to our


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websites appeal to advertisers because they have attractive demographic characteristics and they have demonstrated the ability and willingness to purchase goods and services online.
 
Our Strategy
 
Our objective is to be the leading provider of intelligence services. Our strategy for achieving this goal includes the following initiatives:
 
Expand Our Customer Base.  Since our inception, over four million customer accounts have purchased our intelligence services and we attracted over 10.2 million unique visitors in the month of November 2007. We seek to maximize our revenues by monetizing our users through both intelligence service transactions as well as through online advertising. We intend to grow our consumer base and reach a broader consumer audience by developing our existing distribution relationships with leading Internet companies, establishing new distribution relationships and adding new websites to our portfolio of websites that attract consumers of intelligence services.
 
Expand Our Portfolio of Service Offerings.  We closely follow broad consumer usage and Internet industry trends to identity new compelling services for our customers. We plan to continue to innovate, add data sources to our platform and leverage our advanced technologies to develop new intelligence service offerings for consumers and businesses. By developing new services and enhancing the depth and functionality of existing offerings, we believe we can reach new customers and increase sales to existing customers.
 
Increase Focus on Online Advertising Opportunities.  We intend to increasingly integrate online advertising services into our business model to better monetize the visitors that come to our websites. We believe our visitors represent an attractive, hard-to-reach and captive audience that many advertisers covet. We plan to increase our revenues from online advertising, including post-transaction advertising, by adding new advertisers, expanding relationships with existing advertisers introducing new forms of online advertising and extending advertising across our portfolio of websites.
 
Increase Repeat Purchase Activity.  Repeat customers generally account for a substantial portion of our revenues. We believe these customers are more likely to access our websites directly than are new customers, resulting in more profitable transactions. We intend to increase repeat purchase activity and up-sell and cross-sell additional services by extending the breadth and quality of our service offerings, developing new service bundles with promotional pricing while continuously improving our customer experience. To enhance customer loyalty, we have also created the Club Intelius loyalty program, which allows members to receive special offers and discounts for a small subscription fee.
 
Build a Recognized Brand.  To date, we have not invested significant resources to build our brand. We intend to build a recognized brand through advertising and marketing initiatives, including online advertising, print and outdoor advertising, trade shows, viral marketing and word-of-mouth. In addition to raising public awareness, we believe that these brand-building initiatives will enhance our sales and profitability over the long term by attracting more direct traffic to our website.
 
Expand through Strategic Acquisitions.  We intend to pursue acquisitions of relevant domain names, as well as acquisitions of companies with complementary customers, technology and services, in order to augment our customer base, increase traffic to our websites, enhance awareness of our brand, add new services and provide new sources of revenue. To date, we have made acquisitions that have allowed us to increase direct traffic to our network of websites, improve our search engine relevance and expand our product offerings.


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Consumer Intelligence Services
 
We offer consumers a broad range of intelligence services that address their immediate needs for information about people, businesses and assets. Our protection services provide a comprehensive examination and ongoing monitoring of individuals’ and businesses’ personal and professional histories, which can be used to address security concerns and to confirm qualifications. Our verification services are designed to empower consumers to identify and verify unknown or missing contact information for people and businesses with which they interact. Our information services help our customers locate and connect with friends, colleagues and businesses and acquire detailed information on real estate and other assets.
 
We utilize the most up-to-date complete and accurate information available to us to create our service offerings, which we sell individually and in bundles of complementary services. Most of our services are offered to our customers in an easy-to-use and understandable format through our primary website, www.Intelius.com. Our core service offerings include:
 
Protection Services
 
Background Check.  Background Check provides a comprehensive examination of an individual’s personal history based on name and state of residence. Background Check draws from thousands of continuously updated data sources that include government, criminal, court, property and other public and publicly available records. Background Check delivers a detailed analysis of an individual’s address history, aliases, criminal history, liens and judgments, bankruptcy, professional licenses, marriage, divorce, death, property and other asset information. Some components of Background Check are also available as individual offerings.
 
Business Profile Report.  Business Profile Report provides a summary of an individual’s employment history, education, and professional biography based on a name and state of residence. Business Profile Report analyzes multiple forms of public and publicly available records including corporate records, professional licenses, business profiles, Internet domain profiles, addresses, and daily phone connect and disconnect information, to deliver information that enables consumers and professionals to locate and verify the professional history of colleagues and associates.
 
IDWatch.  IDWatch, our identity theft protection service, provides individuals with the ability to monitor and proactively protect against cases of identity theft. We offer comprehensive identity reports and real-time identity fraud monitoring that analyzes thousands of public and commercial data sources for potential fraudulent activity and changes in users’ personal profiles, such as a change of address or new account activation. Our service alerts customers via email to suspicious behavior involving their personal information and also includes an insurance and recovery plan that provides $25,000 of coverage in the event that identity theft does occur.
 
Background Monitoring.  Background Monitoring allows consumers and businesses to receive periodic updated background reports on individuals to keep them informed of the dynamic and changing nature of an individual’s background. Our service provides an alert to our customers based on new information about the individual, such as a recent criminal charge, civil lawsuit, judgment, lien or bankruptcy.
 
Verification Services
 
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phone number, including both listed and unlisted numbers. Phone Number Verification provides our customers with the name, current address (when available), phone company and the connection status of the unrecognized phone number.
 
Identity Verification.  Identity Verification enables individuals or businesses to verify the identities of individuals based on information provided, including social security number, name, address, phone number and other key variables. This service detects for fraud and validates that an individual is using their true identity on an application or other forms of registration.
 
Email Verification.  Email Verification enables consumers to identify email addresses they do not recognize. Email Verification provides up-to-date information associated with any email address that includes residential, commercial, mobile, and Internet phone numbers and postal addresses by utilizing data sources that provide both listed and unlisted numbers and addresses.
 
Information Services
 
People Search.  People Search enables consumers to conveniently locate confirmed/connected address and phone number information for individuals. This service analyzes billions of public and publicly available records including addresses and daily phone connect and disconnect information, to deliver information that enables consumers to locate family, friends and colleagues.
 
Business People Search.  Business People Search provides consumers with the ability to locate professionals by name, location, company, and other search criteria. This service analyzes multiple forms of public and publicly available records including corporate records, professional licenses, business profiles, addresses, and daily phone connect and disconnect information, to deliver information that enables consumers and professionals to locate colleagues and associates.
 
Business Search.  Business Search provides consumers with the ability to locate businesses by category, name, location, and other search criteria. We provide consumers with basic contact information, including telephone number and address, as well as links to digital maps, directions, and consumer reviews and commentary on the business. We work with leading online business directories and yellow pages services to provide this service.
 
Property and Neighborhood Report.  Property and Neighborhood Report enables consumers to make decisions about property value and verify other details about the surrounding area of a residential or commercial property. This service analyzes many forms of public and publicly available information including property tax data, census records, sex offender information, liens and judgments, to deliver information that provides consumers with relevant intelligence and statistics about individual properties, neighborhood residents and community demographics and characteristics.
 
Online Advertising
 
We provide online advertising in several formats, including display and search advertisements placed on selected sections of our websites, as well as through promotional offers shown to customers as they are completing their purchases. We offer advertising on a cost-per-action, cost-per-search, cost-per-impression and cost-per-click basis.
 
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target relevant services to our customers at a time when the customer is ready to purchase such services, increasing the likelihood the customer will transact with the advertiser. Upon acceptance of our advertiser’s offer, we enable our customers to securely transfer their billing information to facilitate transactions with our advertisers.
 
Search Advertising.  We provide search advertising that enables consumers searching for information, products and services on our websites to connect with advertising merchants. Leading online directory services provide us with listing information about businesses and service providers related to a consumer’s search query. Our search advertising helps advertisers generate additional exposure for their merchant customers and enable merchants to acquire customers and sell products and services.
 
Display Advertising.  We provide display advertising, in the form of banner advertisements, on many of our websites. Our display advertising enables businesses to build their brands, acquire customers and sell products and services to our customers that represent an attractive demographic.
 
Enterprise Intelligence Services
 
Enterprise Screening Services.  We provide employers and real estate managers with detailed personal and background intelligence that is necessary for conducting pre-employment screenings of potential hires and screening of potential tenants. All of our enterprise screening services require consent of the individual being screened and we gather such consent in compliance with the FCRA. Our enterprise screening services include:
 
  •  Employment Screening.  Consists of our Background Check service, and may be augmented with education and employment verification, a credit report and a department of motor vehicles records check.
 
  •  Tenant Screening.  Consists of our Background Check service, and may be augmented with a credit report and rental history.
 
Marketing Services.  Our marketing services provide businesses with mission critical data that facilitates decisions about their existing and prospective customers. We provide information that can be used to obtain new sales leads, and cleanse, amend and update existing customer data to reduce costs associated with customer service and outreach. Our marketing services include:
 
  •  New Movers and New Businesses.  Provides name and contact information for consumers and businesses that have recently moved to or been established in specific zip codes, area codes, counties, cities or states.
 
  •  Data Append.  Provides missing consumer- and business-related information to data sets provided by customers, such as names, addresses or phone numbers.
 
  •  Data Cleansing.  Updates contact information, including change of addresses and phone numbers, for lists of consumers and businesses provided by the customer.
 
Technology
 
We have developed several proprietary technologies that serve as the foundation of our intelligence platform and allow us to view, analyze and adjust how we market to and acquire our customers. We also employ industry-leading technologies and in-depth security policies designed to ensure that our operations and intelligence information are protected. Our technology infrastructure enables us to scale our business at a low cost while providing a flexible platform for integrated application development.


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Data Access, Analysis and Integration
 
We draw upon a wide variety of online and offline sources for our data, including government agencies, credit bureaus and third parties, which compile public, publicly available and commercial record information. This information is delivered to us via digital media or accessed via electronic gateways. Update frequencies range from daily to annually, depending on the source. We do not rely on a single source to operate any of our services and we believe we would be able to continue our service offerings should any single source become unavailable.
 
Our intelligence platform is designed to standardize access to disparate information sources so that we can uniformly search and analyze all sources. Whether information is stored in our internal databases or accessed in real time from external sources, the same normalization techniques are applied. We then apply a real-time integration process that allows us to create an accurate and comprehensive virtual record from the information sources used, while minimizing duplication. Our innovative technology employs recursive heuristics consisting of sophisticated rules that allow us to make inferences and predictions from disparate information sources. We apply cost-optimization algorithms to deliver high quality information at an affordable cost.
 
Operations and Information Security
 
We implement security at multiple levels in our platform hardware and software and follow rigorous industry standards to protect our internal operations and the personal information we require and provide. We use leading enterprise firewalls and monitoring systems for intrusion detection, to screen all network traffic. All sensitive data is encrypted and stored with 256-bit Rijndael Advanced Encryption Standard approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and limited logged access is controlled by access control lists. We engage in extensive annual internal and external security audits as well as quarterly external network scans and penetration tests conducted by VeriSign. We have also engaged VeriSign to audit our policies and procedures for compliance with a variety of industry standards. VeriSign has certified our compliance with the following as of September 11, 2007:
 
  •  Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards Level 1, the highest attainable level;
 
  •  Security components of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Section 404;
 
  •  ISO 17799:2005/27001:2005 Information Security Standards;
 
  •  Open Web Application Security Project Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services; and
 
  •  The California Information Practice Act, Senate Bill 1386, which mandates disclosure of security breaches.
 
Infrastructure
 
Our infrastructure platform is based on open source technologies that include Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. We use redundant Internet service providers and fault tolerant network appliances running on commodity PC-based servers and hardware. We currently store over 15 billion records on approximately 50 database servers with over 40 terabytes of disk space. Our databases currently service over 5,000 queries per second in the aggregate and are optimized for an easily updateable, fast and consistent view.


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Our platform is operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week and we have had historical system uptimes of more than 99.95% other than for scheduled downtime. We have managed connectivity with multiple Internet service providers, continually monitoring and optimizing all network traffic flows and service levels. The systems supporting our own websites and our internal operations are hosted at three facilities in the Seattle, Washington area. The facilities are continuously staffed by trained personnel, and we believe that we have ample power, redundancy, fire suppression capabilities, bandwidth capacity and backbone redundancy to support the current and anticipated near-term growth of our business. We continuously monitor these systems to improve all aspects of their performance.
 
Real-Time Monitoring Administration System
 
We have developed a real-time monitoring and administration system that allows us to view our entire platform in real time, which we believe gives us a competitive advantage in our customer acquisition strategy. Since we acquire customers through many Internet-based advertising channels, we use this system to monitor, analyze and modify each online channel and campaign in real time to achieve better results. For example, we can instantly identify whether an advertiser has changed how it is featuring our service, or we can introduce special offerings or modify pricing in real time to maximize the effectiveness of our online advertising. Furthermore, our real-time monitoring and administration system allows us to optimize our use of individual information sources to improve service quality.
 
Fraud Detection and Prevention
 
To minimize fraudulent activity on our websites, we have developed a highly flexible, real-time fraud analysis and detection system. This system analyzes purchases, history and other transaction variables to assign a fraud-probability to each transaction and customer. Transactions identified as fraudulent are not completed. In addition, a fraud review team manually evaluates questionable transactions. Reports are generated to illustrate trends in fraud, allowing us to employ new techniques for detection of fraud.
 
Queue Management Platform
 
Our enterprise services require the integration of information from external agencies from which information may be unavailable in real time. Our platform allows for asynchronous request handling and automatically augments our reports upon receipt of outstanding pieces of information. These requests are typically comprised of specific components within reports which can take several days to receive results. For example, a pre-employment background screening often requires a drug screening component which requires a few days for an individual to be tested and for laboratory results to be received. Our queue manager flags components that remain outstanding for longer than the standard time constraints imposed by the workflow for administrative follow-up. Once all components for a report have been received, a job completion alert informs the recipient that its report is ready for delivery.
 
Advertising Platform
 
We have developed a proprietary advertising platform that allows for the dynamic placement of advertisements on our websites. Advertisements can be grouped together into exclusive families with weights to determine relevance based on numerous attributes related to websites, user behavior and profiling. Our real-time monitoring and administration system allows tracking of these advertisements in real time enabling us to refine and optimize targeting.


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Product Development
 
Our product development activities, which are primarily composed of research and development efforts, are focused on the development of new heuristics for integrating disparate databases and providing a robust data platform for development of our new products. These efforts are instrumental in allowing us to provide unique and compelling products to our customers. For the nine months ended September 30, 2007, and the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, we spent $2.1 million, $1.5 million and $1.1 million, respectively, on product development.
 
Sales and Marketing
 
Our sales and marketing efforts are centered on acquiring customers, selling and up-selling intelligence services, encouraging repeat purchase activity and attracting traffic directly to our websites. We primarily sell our services over the Internet to consumers and enterprises and by telephone to selected high-volume enterprise customers.
 
We use the following advertising and marketing programs to attract and retain customers:
 
  •  Online Distribution Relationships.  We have established relationships with leading Internet companies, including Idearc, InfoSpace, MSN, Yahoo! and YELLOWPAGES.COM, that market our services and direct users to our websites. Such relationships are structured on a revenue sharing, cost-per-impression or cost-per-click basis.
 
  •  Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.  We optimize our websites to maximize the opportunity for proper indexing, listing and inclusion in the editorial results of algorithmic search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo!. We run performance-based search advertising programs and monitor, analyze and modify them in real time to improve their effectiveness.
 
  •  Direct Navigation.  We own a portfolio of websites with content relevant to our services, from which we direct visitors to our primary website, www.Intelius.com, where they have the opportunity to purchase our services.
 
  •  Offline Marketing.  We advertise across offline media such as radio, television, billboards, print media and trade shows to enhance consumer awareness of our brand and services.
 
  •  Customer Loyalty.  We promote customer loyalty through our Club Intelius loyalty program, by providing an intuitive and compelling user interface on our website, and through our in-house, highly-trained customer service department. Additionally, we periodically offer our customers security tips, new product offerings and promotions through opt-in direct email communications.
 
We additionally market to enterprise customers through a dedicated sales force and channel partners. Our sales force is organized geographically in major U.S. regional markets and is responsible for answering incoming inquiries, contacting prospective enterprise customers and servicing, cross-selling and up-selling existing enterprise customers. We also work with businesses that wish to market and promote our services to their customers, clients or end users. Our channel partners either pay for our services on behalf of the end users, or feature our branded services with their offerings.
 
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believe that most of our competitors compete with us in a particular service offering, but do not compete with us across our entire suite of service offerings. However, we believe that as the market for our services grows and we expand our service offerings, we will encounter increased competition.
 
We face different principal competitors in the market for our services, including the following:
 
  •  Online and offline background check and information verification service providers, including private search firms. Many of these providers offer manual, high-cost background screenings and verification services for consumers and businesses that are typically comprehensive, but are labor intensive and require a significant amount of time to complete;
 
  •  Online properties and directory services that provide free and paid address and phone number information, people search services and real estate information and analysis;
 
  •  Large, diversified Internet companies that offer publicly available information that can be crawled and indexed on the Internet. While these companies do not currently offer a wide variety of intelligence services, they may compete directly with our service offerings in the future;
 
  •  Internet websites that compete with us for online advertising revenues. These websites compete with us on the basis of the number of visitors and the quality of visitor traffic; and
 
  •  Credit bureaus and other information services providers that offer credit monitoring services competing with us in the identity theft market. These services typically only provide notification of a credit-related incident after it has occurred.
 
We believe the principal factors upon which we compete in the market for intelligence services are:
 
  •  completeness, accuracy and reliability of intelligence services offered;
 
  •  speed of delivery of intelligence services;
 
  •  ease of use and access to intelligence services;
 
  •  cost-effectiveness of intelligence services;
 
  •  relationships with frequently trafficked Internet portals and websites;
 
  •  ability to acquire customers cost-effectively; and
 
  •  ability to generate revenues from repeat customers.
 
We believe we compete effectively relative to our competitors in the market for providing intelligence services to consumers and businesses over the Internet. Furthermore, we believe our advanced technologies and proprietary platform provide a significant advantage in delivering accurate and useful services in a timely manner at affordable prices.
 
Government Regulation
 
We are subject to state, federal and international laws and regulations applicable to online commerce, including privacy, website content and general consumer protection laws. Laws and regulations have been adopted, and may be adopted in the future, that govern or regulate Internet-related activities and information, including online content, data privacy, data security,


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online marketing, unsolicited commercial email, taxation, pricing and quality of products and services. Some of these laws and regulations, particularly those that relate to the Internet, were adopted relatively recently and their scope and application is less certain.
 
Our enterprise business, which accounted for 9.5% of our revenues during the first nine months of 2007, involves the distribution of certain information about individuals to persons who make eligibility, service and other decisions based on such information. These enterprise services are subject to regulation under federal, state and local laws in the U.S. Examples of such regulations include the FCRA, which regulates the use and disclosure of information used by employers, landlords, insurers and other entities to make various selection decisions, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which regulates the protection and use of non-public personal financial information held by financial institutions and applies indirectly to companies that provide services to financial institutions, the Drivers’ Privacy Protection Act, which restricts the public disclosure, use and resale of personal information contained in state department of motor vehicle records, and state private investigator licensing laws. For example, as to the latter, we received, and addressed, an inquiry from the State of Nevada by engaging a private investigator in the delivery of certain of our services in that state.
 
Certain state and federal privacy laws generally restrict the use and disclosure of personal information and provide consumers with various rights, including the right to know the manner in which their own covered information is being used, to challenge the accuracy of such information and to prevent the use and disclosure of such information. In certain instances, these laws also impose requirements for safeguarding personal information through the implementation of data security standards and practices. Certain state laws also require notification to those affected by security breaches in certain circumstances. Some laws require us to withhold disclosure of certain elements of certain individuals’ identifying information in some circumstances; however, the individual may still appear in our database because we are no longer able to sufficiently identify the person due to a change in the person’s identifying information or due to new information received from one of our data sources. Failure to comply with these regulations may result in the imposition of civil and criminal penalties, including fines.
 
The use by customers of many of our consumer services, including Background Information, Phone Number Verification and People Search to make hiring, credit, tenant or similar screening decisions could cause the customers to violate FCRA and similar state laws. As do others in the industry, we require persons desiring to purchase its consumer services to agree, as a condition to purchase, that they will not use the information provided by those services to make screening decisions regulated by those laws.
 
On November 27, 2006, we received an inquiry from the FTC in the form of a Civil Investigative Demand regarding compliance with the FCRA. Over the next several months we responded to this inquiry, answering questions and producing numerous documents responsive to the original inquiry and to follow-up inquiries. Our representatives also met with FTC staff in August 2007, to respond to these and additional questions. We have received no additional requests for information since responding to the last follow-up inquiry in the late summer of 2007. This matter is discussed more fully in the Risk Factors Related to our Business section on page 11 and our Legal Proceedings on page 75.
 
Intellectual Property
 
Our intellectual properties include our trademarks and our proprietary heuristics, analytics and predictive intelligence algorithms. We use these in connection with our websites’ user interfaces, virtual record of integrated data, real-time monitoring and administration system, and real-time fraud analysis and scoring system. We protect our know-how and trade secrets with various


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confidentiality agreements and other protocols. No single trade secret is critical to our operations. We own and use many copyright-protected works, including the user interfaces on our websites and various software programs and code that have been written by our employees. We also use open source software that is subject to various open source software licenses.
 
We own trademarks, service marks and trade names that are important to our business. Our Intelius trademark and logo is our primary brand and mark. Aside from this brand, however, we are not dependent in any material way upon any single trademark, service mark or trade name or group of trademarks, service marks or trade names. We protect, register and defend our trademarks and service marks. While the initial duration for a federal trademark registration is six years, each registration may be continually renewed an unlimited number of times as long as the company continues to use the applicable mark in commerce. Additional trademarks, service marks and trade names used in our business are registered and maintained in the U.S.
 
We have filed two patent applications in the U.S. related to data access, analysis and integration of public records. However, we cannot be certain that these patents will be granted.
 
We own and operate numerous website domain names and our highest trafficked websites are: www.Intelius.com, www.addresses.com, www.ReversePhoneDirectory.com, www.PublicRecordFinder.com and www.PeopleLookup.com.
 
Employees
 
As of December 31, 2007, we had a total of 139 full time employees, of which 29 were engaged in sales, marketing and business development; 42 in network operations and product development; 49 in search services and customer support; and 19 in finance and administration. None of our employees are represented by labor unions, and we consider current employee relations to be good.
 
Facilities
 
Our headquarters consist of approximately 30,000 square feet of leased space in downtown Bellevue, Washington expiring in 2012. Our executive offices, administrative and marketing functions, and engineering group are located at this facility. We also lease premises in Bothell, Washington for customer support operations, and have other sales offices in other locations. We also have colocation agreements for space to house our data centers and related equipment in Tukwila, Washington and Seattle, Washington.
 
Legal Proceedings
 
We are involved in various legal proceedings from time to time that arise in the ordinary course of our business. We provide for estimated legal fees and settlements relating to pending lawsuits when they are probable and reasonably estimable. We do not believe that the outcome of any such pending or threatened litigation in the ordinary course of business will have a material adverse effect on the financial position or results of our operations. However, we cannot assure you that such actions will not be material and will not adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
 
On November 27, 2006, we received an inquiry from the FTC in the form of a Civil Investigative Demand regarding compliance with the FCRA. Over the next several months we responded to this inquiry, answering questions and producing numerous documents responsive to the original inquiry and to follow-up inquiries. Our representatives also met with FTC staff in August 2007, to respond to these and additional questions. We have received no


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additional requests for information since responding to the last follow-up inquiry in the late summer of 2007. The FCRA is applicable to certain of our enterprise screening services. We do not believe the FCRA is applicable to our delivery of our consumer intelligence services. However, we cannot be sure whether the FTC will agree with our view that the FCRA is not applicable to our delivery of these services. A determination by the FTC that the FCRA does cover these services, if sustained, could have a material adverse effect on our business. The FTC could, for example, impose monetary penalties, require increased regulation of our consumer intelligence services which may reduce demand for them, or require some other action. This matter is also discussed in the Risk Factors Related to our Business section on page 11.


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MANAGEMENT
 
Executive Officers, Key Employees and Directors
 
Our executive officers, key employees and directors, and their ages and positions as of January 10, 2008, are set forth below:
 
             
Name
 
Age
 
Position
 
Naveen K. Jain
    48     Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
John K. Arnold
    44     Executive Vice President, Business Development
William H. Beaver, Jr
    53     Vice President and General Counsel
Chandan S. Chauhan
    50     Senior Vice President, Program Management
Paul T. Cook
    45     Chief Financial Officer
William R. Kerr
    53     Chief Corporate Officer and Director
Irina Z. Leversee
    42     Controller
Kevin R. Marcus
    33     Chief Technology Officer
Edward O. Petersen
    36     Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Niraj A. Shah
    37     Senior Vice President, Engineering
William A. Owens(1)(2)(3)
    67     Chairman of the Board of Directors
Peter W. Currie(1)(3)
    56     Director
Arthur W. Harrigan, Jr.
    63     Director
Chris A. Kitze(1)(2)(3)
    48     Director
             
 
 
(1) Member of Audit Committee.
 
(2) Member of Compensation Committee.
 
(3) Member of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
 
Naveen K. Jain, a co-founder of Intelius, has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President and as a member of our Board of Directors since our inception in January 2003. Prior to founding our company, he was a founder and Chairman of the Board of InfoSpace, Inc., a developer of Internet software and application services, from April 1996 to December 2002. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of InfoSpace from 1996 to April 2000 and again from 2001 to 2002 and served as Chief Strategy Officer from 2000 to 2001. From 1989 to 1996, Mr. Jain was a senior executive at Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Jain holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) and a post-graduate degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from the XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business and Human Resources.
 
John K. Arnold, a co-founder of Intelius, has served as our Executive Vice President, Business Development, since our inception in January 2003. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Arnold served as Executive Vice President at InfoSpace, where he led merchant and wireless strategic initiatives. In 1995, Mr. Arnold founded OutPost Network, Inc., an e-commerce technology company, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until it was acquired by InfoSpace in 1998. From 1993 until 1995, Mr. Arnold led the Information Technology departments of VoiceStream Wireless (now T-Mobile) and Western Wireless Corporation. Mr. Arnold is a co-author of patents related to the processing of merchant transactions and Internet affiliate management. Mr. Arnold also serves as managing partner of Arnold Network Holdings, which focuses on the development of traditional and technology businesses for


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emerging entrepreneurs. Mr. Arnold attended the University of Washington, where he studied computer science.
 
William H. Beaver, Jr. has served as our Vice President and General Counsel since August 2005. From January 2005 to August 2005, he served as a consultant to us. From 1980 to August 2005, he practiced law with Karr Tuttle Campbell, a private law firm. Mr. Beaver holds a B.S. degree in Ichthyology from the University of Michigan and a J.D. degree from the University of Washington School of Law.
 
Chandan S. Chauhan, a co-founder of Intelius, has served as our Senior Vice President, Program Management, since our inception in January 2003. From 2000 until 2002, Mr. Chauhan served as Vice President of New Technologies for InfoSpace. From 1987 until 1999, Mr. Chauhan held several senior management positions at Microsoft Corporation in the Windows Operating System and MSN divisions. Mr. Chauhan holds an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax.
 
Paul T. Cook has served as our Chief Financial Officer since August 2006 and as our senior financial executive since January 2005. Prior to joining us, Mr. Cook served as Director of Technology Investing and Senior Portfolio Manager at Munder Capital Management, an investment management company, from 1999 until December 2004. Mr. Cook held various other positions at Munder Capital Management beginning in 1987. Mr. Cook is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a B.A. degree in Materials Logistics Management and an M.B.A. degree in Finance from Michigan State University.
 
William R. Kerr has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2006 and as our Chief Corporate Officer since June 2007. He served as Chief Executive Officer of JSE Partners Inc., a private equity investment company, from September 2005 to June 2007, and also from November 2001 to March 2004. Mr. Kerr served as Chief Financial Officer at Nortel Networks Corp., a global communications equipment company, from March 2004 to February 2005 and as Senior Advisor at Nortel Networks Corp. from February 2005 to September 2005. From 1994 until 2001, Mr. Kerr held several senior executive positions at Nortel Networks, including Senior Vice President of Finance, Vice President and Treasurer, and Vice President and Controller. Mr. Kerr is a Chartered Accountant and holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.
 
Irina Z. Leversee has served as our Controller since May 2005. Ms. Leversee served as Controller at Insightful Corporation, a provider of data analysis software, from October 2004 until March 2005. From December 2001 until October 2004, Ms. Leversee served as Manager of Financial Reporting and Accounting Manager at Watchguard Technologies, Inc., a provider of network security software and appliances. Ms. Leversee holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from the Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow, Russia, and an M.B.A. degree from Francis Marion University. Ms. Leversee is a certified public accountant in the State of Washington.
 
Kevin R. Marcus, a co-founder of Intelius, has served as our Chief Technology Officer since our inception in January 2003. Prior to joining us, Mr. Marcus was a founder of InfoSpace, and served as its Chief Software Architect from 1996 to 2002. From 1993 until 1996, Mr. Marcus worked for Symantec Corp., a provider of security software. Mr. Marcus has been an author and co-author on issued patents related to user authentication, messaging, geographical searching and CPU emulation. Mr. Marcus attended the University of California, Riverside, where he studied computer science.
 
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Development, Senior Vice President of Devices and Network Equipment and Senior Vice President of Wireless Services. In 1998, Mr. Petersen founded Union-Street.com, an Internet company, where he served as its President until its acquisition by InfoSpace in 1999. From 1995 until 1998, Mr. Petersen was a Head of Program Management for Pantheon, Inc., an Internet infrastructure company. Mr. Petersen holds a B.A. degree in History and Business Administration from Whittier College.
 
Niraj A. Shah, a co-founder of Intelius, has served as our Senior Vice President, Engineering, since our inception in January 2003. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Shah served as the Director of Innovations for InfoSpace. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Shah served as a Senior Architect for Active Voice, LLC, a provider of unified messaging, computer telephony and voice messaging solutions. Mr. Shah holds a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington.
 
William A. Owens has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2006 and as Chairman since March 2006. He has been a partner and served as Chief Executive Officer of AEA Holdings ASIA, a U.S. private equity firm, since April 2006. William Owens is a retired Admiral of the U.S. Navy. Admiral Owens served as Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nortel Networks Corp. from April 2004 to December 2005. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Teledesic LLC, a provider of satellite communication services, from 1998 to April 2004. From 1996 to 1998, Admiral Owens served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of Science Applications International Corp., a systems, solutions and technical services company. From 1994 to 1996, Admiral Owens served as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. military. Admiral Owens also serves as a director of Daimler AG, Embarq Corp., Polycom, Inc. and Wipro Ltd. Admiral Owens holds a B.A. degree in Mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy, a B.A. degree and an M.A. degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and an M.A. degree in Management from George Washington University.
 
Peter W. Currie has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2007. Most recently, Mr. Currie served as the Chief Financial Officer of Nortel Networks Corp. from February 2005 to April 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Currie worked at Royal Bank of Canada from 1997 to 2004 and most recently served as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of RBC Financial Group until 2004. Mr. Currie held various finance positions during his 13 years at Nortel Networks Corp. prior to joining RBC Financial Group, including General Auditor, Controller and Vice President, Finance for a number of business segments, in addition to serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Currie received a B.A. degree in Economics and an M.B.A. degree from York University.
 
Arthur W. Harrigan, Jr. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2006. He is a partner at Danielson Harrigan Leyh & Tollefson LLP, a private law firm of which he is a founder, and has practiced law there since 1986. From 1971 to 1985, he practiced law with Lane Powell PC, a private law firm. He holds a B.A. degree in Intellectual History from Harvard College and a J.D. degree from Columbia University Law School.
 
Chris A. Kitze has served as a member of our Board of Directors since September 2007. Mr. Kitze has been an independent investor since 1996. He served as Chairman of the Board of Wine.com, an online wine retailer, from 1999 until August 2005. From 2000 until 2002, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Yaga, Inc., a payments processor. From 1999 until 2000, he served as Chief Executive Officer and board member of NBC Internet. Mr. Kitze co-founded Xoom.com, an Internet company, in 1996 and served as its Chairman of the Board and held several executive positions from 1996 until 1999. In 1995, Mr. Kitze co-founded Point Communications Corporation, a Web directory company, which was acquired by Lycos in 1995, after which Mr. Kitze served as Lycos’ Vice President of Marketing until 1996. From 1994 until 1995, Mr. Kitze served as Publisher at Softkey International. In 1991, Mr. Kitze co-founded Aris


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Entertainment, a CD-ROM publishing company, and served as its President until 1994. Mr. Kitze holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
 
There are no family relationships among any of our directors and executive officers.
 
Board Composition
 
We have six authorized directors. Our Board of Directors is currently composed of Mr. Harrigan, Mr. Jain, Mr. Kerr, Mr. Owens, Mr. Kitze and Mr. Currie. Our amended and restated bylaws provide that the authorized number of directors may be changed only by resolution of the Board of Directors. We do not have a classified Board of Directors, and, as a result, each of our directors will stand for re-election at our next annual stockholders’ meeting and will serve until the following year’s annual stockholders’ meeting or until his successor is duly qualified and elected or until his earlier death, removal or resignation. Our amended and restated bylaws provide that any vacancy on our Board of Directors may only be filled by a person selected by a majority of the remaining directors then in office, or by a sole remaining director, unless applicable law otherwise requires.
 
Director Independence and Qualifications
 
The Board of Directors has determined that each of Mr. Currie, Mr. Kitze and Mr. Owens is an “independent director” as defined in Rule 4200 of the Marketplace Rules of The NASDAQ Stock Market, a “non-employee director” as defined in Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and an “outside director” as defined pursuant to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The rules of The NASDAQ Stock Market require that a majority of the members of our board of directors be independent within one year following the completion of this offering, and we intend to have a board comprised of a majority of independent members within this time period. The members of the Audit Committee also meet the independence and financial literacy requirements of Rule 4350(d)(2)(A) of the Marketplace Rules of The NASDAQ Stock Market.
 
Board Committees
 
Our Board of Directors currently has three committees—an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Each of the committees operates under a written charter approved by the Board of Directors. Members serve on these committees until their resignation from the committee, the termination or expiration of their service on the Board, or until otherwise determined by our Board.
 
Audit Committee
 
Our Audit Committee is comprised of Mr. Currie, who is the chair of the Audit Committee, and Mr. Kitze and Mr. Owens. The composition of our Audit Committee meets the requirements for independence under the current NASDAQ Stock Market and SEC rules and regulations. Each member of our Audit Committee is financially literate. In addition, our Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Currie is an “audit committee financial expert” within the meaning of Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, or the Securities Act. All audit services to be provided to us and all permissible non-audit services to be provided to us by our independent registered public accounting firm will be approved in advance by our Audit Committee. Our Audit Committee recommended, and our Board of Directors has adopted, a written charter for our Audit Committee. The responsibilities of our Audit Committee, among other things, include:
 
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  •  overseeing the independence of our independent registered public accounting firm;
 
  •  reviewing audit results and annual and interim financial statements;
 
  •  reviewing potential conflict of interest situations and reviewing and approving any related party transactions; and
 
  •  reviewing and pre-approving all audit services and permissible non-audit services to be performed by our independent registered public accounting firm.
 
Compensation Committee
 
Our Compensation Committee is comprised of Mr. Kitze, who is the chair of the Compensation Committee, and Mr. Owens. The composition of our Compensation Committee meets the requirements for independence under the current NASDAQ Stock Market and SEC rules and regulations. The purpose of our Compensation Committee is to discharge the responsibilities of our Board of Directors relating to the compensation of our executive officers. Our Compensation Committee recommended, and our Board of Directors has adopted, a written charter. Pursuant to its charter, our Compensation Committee, among other things, will:
 
  •  determine the form and amount of compensation to be paid or awarded to all employees of the company;
 
  •  administer our equity incentive plans;
 
  •  review and approve the corporate goals and objectives relevant to executive officers’ compensation and make and review decisions regarding salary, bonuses, and change in control arrangements; and
 
  •  review and make recommendations to the Board with respect to adoption and approval of all cash-based and equity-based incentive compensation plans and arrangements.
 
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
 
Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is comprised of Mr. Owens, who is the chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and Mr. Currie and Mr. Kitze. The composition of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee meets the requirements for independence under the current NASDAQ Stock Market and SEC rules and regulations. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has recommended, and our Board of Directors has adopted, a written charter for our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, among other things, will:
 
  •  identify, evaluate, and recommend nominees for our Board of Directors and committees of our Board of Directors;
 
  •  make recommendations to the Board regarding the structure and operations, size and composition of the Board and committees of the Board, committee member qualifications, and committee member appointment and removal;
 
  •  develop and recommend to the Board codes of conduct and ethics applicable to our employees, officers and directors; and
 
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Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
 
None of our executive officers serves or in the past has served as a member of the Board of Directors or Compensation Committee of any entity that has one or more of its executive officers serving on our Board of Directors or our Compensation Committee.
 
Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
 
Our Board of Directors has adopted a code of business conduct and ethics that applies to all of our employees, officers and directors, including our chief financial officer and principal accounting officer.
 
Director Compensation
 
The following table sets forth a summary of the compensation we paid to our non-employee directors in 2007. Other than as set forth in the table and the narrative that follows it, to date we have not paid any fees to or reimbursed any expenses of our directors, made any equity or non-equity awards to directors, or paid any other compensation to directors. All compensation that we paid to Mr. Jain and Mr. Kerr, our only employee directors, is set forth in the tables summarizing executive officer compensation below. No compensation was paid to Mr. Jain and Mr. Kerr in each’s respective capacity as a director.
 
                         
    Stock
             
    Awards
    Option Awards
       
Name
  (1)     (2)     Total  
 
William A. Owens
  $     $ 48,646     $ 48,646  
Arthur W. Harrigan, Jr
          48,641       48,641  
Peter W. Currie
    42,871(3 )           42,871  
Chris A. Kitze
    34,298(4 )           34,298  
Barry L. Rowan (5)
          53,953       53,953  
 
 
(1) In accordance with SEC rules, the amounts in this column represent the amounts that we recognized as compensation expense for financial statement reporting purposes for any part of 2007 in accordance with the SFAS 123(R) modified prospective transition method in connection with all of the restricted stock granted to each named director. The aggregate grant date fair values, computed in accordance with SFAS 123(R), of each restricted stock grant to our non-employee directors in 2007 is as follows: Mr. Currie, June 2007 grant, $153,250; Mr. Currie, September 2007 grant, $32,235; and Mr. Kitze, September 2007 grant, $267,090. No restricted stock was granted to the other non-employee directors in 2007. See Note 6 to our consolidated financial statements for a discussion of all assumptions made in determining the grant date fair values. As of December 31, 2007, Mr. Currie held 28,500 shares of restricted stock and Mr. Kitze held 29,000 shares of restricted stock. Our right of repurchase for each of these restricted stock grants lapses as to 50% of the shares on the first anniversary of the vesting start date and as to the remaining 50% of the shares of common stock on the second anniversary of the vesting start date. See “Principal Stockholders” for beneficial ownership information for each of our directors.
 
(2) In accordance with SEC rules, the amounts in this column represent the amounts that we recognized as compensation expense for financial statement reporting purposes for any part of 2007 in accordance with the SFAS 123(R) modified prospective transition method in connection with all of the options issued to each named director. No stock options were granted to non-employee directors in 2007. See Note 6 to our consolidated financial statements for a discussion of all assumptions made in determining the grant date fair values. As of December 31, 2007, Mr. Harrigan held outstanding options to purchase 37,292 shares and Mr. Owens held an outstanding option to purchase 70,000 shares. Each of these options vests as to 25% of the shares of common stock underlying it on the first anniversary of the vesting start date and the remainder vest ratably over the following 36 months. See “Principal Stockholders” for beneficial ownership information for each of our directors.
 
(3) In June 2007, we granted Mr. Currie 25,000 shares of restricted stock. In September 2007, we granted Mr. Currie 3,500 shares of restricted stock.
 
(4) In September 2007, we granted Mr. Kitze 29,000 shares of restricted stock.
 
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Each of our non-employee directors receives 25,000 shares of restricted stock on the date the individual becomes a director and thereafter 10,000 shares of restricted stock on each anniversary of the director’s appointment or election to our Board of Directors. In addition, the Chairman of our Board of Directors receives 4,000 shares of restricted stock on the date the individual is elected Chairman and annually thereafter on the anniversary date of such election. Each non-employee director appointed to serve on the Audit Committee receives a grant of 2,500 shares of restricted stock on the date of the appointment and annually thereafter on the anniversary date of the appointment. Each non-employee director appointed to serve on the Compensation Committee receives a grant of 1,500 shares of restricted stock on the date of the appointment and annually thereafter on the anniversary date of such appointment. The chair of the Audit Committee receives an additional grant of 1,000 shares of restricted stock on the date the director is appointed or elected chair of the Audit Committee and annually thereafter on the anniversary date of such appointment. The chair of the Compensation Committee receives an additional grant of 500 shares of restricted stock on the date the director is appointed or elected chair of the Compensation Committee and annually thereafter on the anniversary date of such appointment or election. Each of the above grants will vest over two years with 50% of the shares subject to the grant vesting on the first anniversary of the grant and the remaining shares vesting on the second anniversary of the grant, provided that the non-employee director must continuously serve in the position for which the grant was made.
 
All of our directors are reimbursed for their reasonable expenses to attend Board and committee meetings.
 
Limitation of Liability and Indemnification
 
We have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our directors, executive officers and a key employee. The agreements provide that we will indemnify each of our directors, executive officers and the key employee against any and all expenses incurred by that director, executive officer or key employee because of his or her status as one of our directors, executive officers or key employees, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws (except in a proceeding initiated by such person without Board approval). In addition, the agreement provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, we will advance all expenses incurred by our directors, executive officers and key employee in connection with a legal proceeding.
 
Our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions relating to the limitation of liability and indemnification of directors and officers. The restated certificate of incorporation provides that our directors will not be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability:
 
  •  for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders;
 
  •  for acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
 
  •  in respect of unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law; or
 
  •  for any transaction from which the director derives any improper personal benefit.
 
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liability of our directors will be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.
 
Our amended and restated bylaws provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, as it now exists or may in the future be amended, against all expenses and liabilities reasonably incurred in connection with their service for or on our behalf. Our amended and restated bylaws provide that we shall advance the expenses incurred by a director or officer in advance of the final disposition of an action or proceeding. The amended and restated bylaws also authorize us to indemnify any of our employees or agents and permit us to secure insurance on behalf of any officer, director, employee or agent for any liability arising out of his or her action in that capacity, whether or not Delaware law would otherwise permit indemnification. In addition, we also maintain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance.
 
The limitation of liability and indemnification provisions in the indemnification agreements, our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit against our directors and officers for breach of their fiduciary duty. They may also reduce the likelihood of derivative litigation against our directors and officers, even though an action, if successful, might benefit us and other stockholders. Further, a stockholder’s investment may be adversely affected to the extent that we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against directors and officers as required by these indemnification provisions.
 
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that, in the opinion of the SEC, this indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable. At present, there is no pending litigation or proceeding involving any of our directors, officers or employees for which indemnification is sought, and we are not aware of any threatened litigation that may result in claims for indemnification.


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COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
 
Introduction
 
Achieving our ultimate objective of increasing stockholder value depends upon our ability to attract, motivate, reward and retain executive talent with the skills to execute our business strategy successfully. Because we are an emerging company, our executive compensation program emphasizes equity compensation and at-risk long-term compensation more than annual base salary or other guaranteed compensation. In addition, it provides performance-based annual compensation for short-term incentive and retention. Our executive compensation program is designed to:
 
  •  pay base salaries that are market-based;
 
  •  reinforce a sense of ownership, urgency and entrepreneurial spirit by linking rewards, through equity and cash incentive programs, to personal performance, corporate performance and stockholder returns;
 
  •  motivate executives to produce superior operating results and create long-term stockholder value through long-term cash-based and stock-based incentives; and
 
  •  maintain a sense of partnership on our executive team by maintaining internal equity in executive compensation.
 
From our inception until September 2007, the compensation of our executive management team was determined by our founder and Chief Executive Officer, Naveen K. Jain, based on his insights into our day-to-day operations and the respective contributions of the members of our management team. Mr. Jain’s recommendations were not based upon the application of specific formulas but upon his judgments about individual performance and responsibilities of members of the executive management team, and the competition for talented Internet commerce executives within the marketplace. Mr. Jain recommended compensation for executives to our Compensation Committee and the committee and our Board of Directors approved those recommendations as presented.
 
In May 2007, our Compensation Committee engaged Mercer, a compensation consulting firm, to review our compensation practices and objectives and to recommend an executive compensation plan. Mercer was instructed to evaluate our executive compensation practices and to make recommendations with respect to a new executive compensation program that would be competitive in the market for executive talent and would focus on performance-based compensation. In 2007, Mercer also advised us on our director compensation arrangements and on our June 2007 equity award grants.
 
The five persons referred to in this prospectus as our “named executive officers” are: our principal executive officer, Naveen K. Jain; our principal financial officer, Paul T. Cook; and our three other most highly-compensated executive officers during 2007, William H. Beaver, William R. Kerr and Edward O. Petersen.
 
In June 2007, at the request of Mr. Jain and on the recommendation of the Compensation Committee, our Board of Directors awarded stock options to Mr. Petersen and Mr. Kerr, and awarded restricted stock units to Mr. Petersen, Mr. Jain, Mr. Cook and Mr. Beaver. The stock options were awarded to Mr. Petersen to better align his overall equity ownership with that of the other founders of our company. The stock options were awarded to Mr. Kerr in connection with his accepting our offer of employment as our Chief Corporate Officer. The restricted stock units were awarded to the named executive officers, other than Mr. Kerr, in order to realign their equity interests for purposes of internal fairness among top management. In September


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2007, based on survey information from Mercer, some named executive officers received small salary increases for purposes of internal compensation fairness.
 
Roles of the Compensation Committee and Chief Executive Officer
 
Our Compensation Committee administers our new executive compensation program, including:
 
  •  reviewing and making recommendations to the Board of Directors with respect to adoption and approval of all cash-based and equity-based incentive compensation plans for the Chief Executive Officer and other executives;
 
  •  administering and interpreting all such cash-based and equity-based compensation plans;
 
  •  approving the goals and objectives to be considered in determining compensation for the Chief Executive Officer and other executives;
 
  •  making decisions respecting all salary paid to the Chief Executive Officer and other executives;
 
  •  determining all grants of cash-based and equity-based incentive compensation; and
 
  •  determining the degree to which incentive compensation is earned.
 
The Compensation Committee determines all compensation for our Chief Executive Officer and our other executive officers, including salaries, cash-based incentives and equity-based incentives. When making individual compensation decisions for executives other than the Chief Executive Officer, the Compensation Committee will consider the recommendations and performance evaluations made by the Chief Executive Officer with respect to those executives, which evaluation may take into account many factors, including compensation survey data and individual skills, experience and impact on the organization, and personal and corporate performance. In addition, the Compensation Committee may consider any other factor or input as it deems necessary to make final compensation decisions. In assessing and determining Chief Executive Officer compensation, the committee considers our overall financial and operating performance, the Chief Executive Officer’s contribution to that performance, and other factors in the same manner as it does for the other executives.
 
Under our new executive compensation program, the Compensation Committee will review our 2008 annual business plan, after it has been approved by our Board of Directors in the first quarter of 2008, in order to determine target performance levels for executive officer cash-based and equity-based incentive compensation plans. The Compensation Committee may select target performance levels based on the annual business plan as adopted by our Board of Directors or select other targets that it deems more appropriate for its purposes.
 
The Compensation Committee plans to establish target performance levels for new incentive compensation programs that are not guaranteed to be achievable, but will require execution of ambitious business strategies over the course of the year. The Compensation Committee may modify compensation plan targets in light of new business initiatives that we may wish to pursue and that might have a short-term impact on individual or corporate goals.


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Executive Officer Market Compensation Data
 
To ensure we are competitive in the marketplace, beginning with 2008 compensation arrangements, we will rely on comparative benchmark data. We consider companies comparable, or comparator companies, if they meet at least three of the following criteria:
 
  •  business competitor, which consists primarily of technology-focused information services companies;
 
  •  labor market competitor, which consists of high-technology companies focused on information commerce or located in the greater Seattle, Washington region;
 
  •  annual revenues from approximately $50 million to $1.0 billion; and
 
  •  high growth in revenues comparable to that of Intelius.
 
To develop the list of comparator companies, Mercer suggested a list of candidate companies to our Compensation Committee, which reviewed and adjusted the list after consultation with Mercer. The following companies are our comparator group for 2008:
 
• ChoicePoint
• Clearwire
• Concur Technologies
• Fair Isaac
• First Advantage
• HireRight
• HouseValues
• InfoSpace
• infoUSA
• InterSearch Group
• Intersections
• Marchex
• RealNetworks
 
Mercer surveyed the executive compensation data for equivalent executive positions for each of the comparator companies by reviewing their most recent SEC proxy filings. Mercer also reviewed compensation data in the 2006 Radford Executive Survey of Compensation, which targets technology industry companies with revenues ranging from $50 million to $1.0 billion, for positions of comparable complexity and scope of responsibility to our named executive officer positions. Mercer determined that it was appropriate to discount both the proxy and the survey data by 15% due to the larger average revenues of the comparator group of companies. Both the proxy data and the survey data were weighted equally to develop a market composite of compensation for each executive position within Intelius.
 
Our management reviewed the survey data with respect to various elements of executive compensation at comparator companies and the level of executive compensation. In consultation with Mercer, our management developed our executive compensation program taking into account direction from the Compensation Committee and the Board of Directors. After reviewing management’s recommended program, the Compensation Committee reviewed and approved the arrangements, which were approved by the Board of Directors in September 2007.
 
Elements of Compensation
 
Beginning in 2008, compensation for our named executive officers will include three main elements:
 
  •  base salary;
 
  •  cash incentives; and
 
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In determining the weighting of the separate elements of our new compensation program, the Compensation Committee determined to structure the elements to emphasize variable compensation over fixed compensation, and long-term incentives over annual incentives. Our Compensation Committee believes that this structure will focus our executive compensation plan on a pay-per-performance basis.
 
We categorize our incentive compensation as either annual or long-term. Annual incentive programs include all compensation, whether cash or equity, which is earned or vests based on achieving pre-defined financial performance or other employment objectives within 12 months from the date of grant. Long-term incentive programs include all compensation, whether cash or equity, which is earned or vests based on achieving pre-defined financial performance or other employment objectives more than 12 months after the date of grant.
 
Market Positioning
 
Historically, we had no formal policy for how named executive officer compensation related to market benchmarks. Our new compensation program is designed to position our named executive officer compensation relative to the comparator group data as follows:
 
         
    Incentive Compensation
    Annual Incentives
  Long-Term Incentives
Fixed Compensation   (incentive cash and restricted
  (restricted stock vesting
Base Salary   stock vesting within 12 mos.)   beyond 12 mos.)
 
2nd Quartile
  3rd Quartile   4th Quartile
(25th—50th percentile)
  (50th—75th percentile)   (above 75th percentile)
 
The target compensation elements for any particular named executive officer may be set above or below the target quartile for that element, depending on the individual named executive officer’s experience, recent performance and expected future contribution, retention concerns, and internal equity among the named executive officers and other executive officers. In setting individual executive officer target total compensation in 2008 under the new compensation program, the Compensation Committee expects to disregard existing equity holdings, as well as amounts realized or potentially realizable from compensation awards in previous years.
 
Target Pay Mix
 
The mix of compensation elements for our named executive officers is structured to emphasize variable compensation over fixed compensation, and long-term incentives over annual incentives. We believe that this pay-for-performance orientation appropriately addresses the objectives of our new executive compensation program.
 
The target mix of compensation elements for the named executive officers in our new compensation program, as a percentage of total compensation, is set forth in the table below. No awards have been granted under this program, but we expect to do so in the first quarter of 2008.
 
                         
    Fixed Compensation
    Incentive Compensation
 
    (% of total compensation)     (% of total compensation)  
    Base
    Target Annual
    Target Long-Term
 
Named Executive Officers
  Salary     Incentives     Incentives  
 
Chief Executive Officer
    18%       17%       65%  
Other named executive officers
    24%       18%       58%  
 
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programs, that, if earned at the target level of performance, would represent the following percentages of base salary for those named executive officers:
 
                 
    Incentive Compensation  
    Target Annual Incentives
    Target Long-Term Incentives
 
Named Executive Officers
  (% of base salary)     (% of base salary)  
 
Chief Executive Officer
    95%       350%  
Other named executive officers
    75%       250%  
 
Base Salary
 
Base salary provides fixed compensation for performance of the executive’s core duties and supports the objective of attracting and retaining key executives. The Compensation Committee will review named executive officer salaries annually; it made small adjustments to named executive officer salaries in September 2007 in order to increase those salaries within the target quartile and for internal pay equity purposes. An individual named executive officer’s base salary may be set above or below the intended market positioning, depending on the Compensation Committee’s subjective assessment of the individual named executive officer’s experience, recent performance and expected future contribution, and retention concerns.
 
Annual Cash Incentives
 
For 2008, we are implementing a formal, performance-based cash incentive plan for the first time. Under our Executive and Senior Management Incentive Plan, our named executive officers earn cash incentive payments, paid after the end of the year, based on achievement of annual financial performance objectives and personal performance objectives for each executive. The target cash incentive represents 25% of base salary for all named executive officers.
 
The amounts actually paid under this plan will be determined by multiplying the target annual incentive amount by the degree to which corporate financial performance targets are achieved and the degree to which individual performance goals are achieved. If either the financial metric factor or the personal objective factor is zero, then there will be no cash incentive payout for the year to the relevant executive. The formula is illustrated below.
 
                         
Target Annual
Incentive
  X   Corporate
Financial Metric
Factor
(90%-120%)
  X   Personal
Objective Factor
(50%-120%)
  =   Actual Annual
Incentive
 
For corporate financial metrics, achievement of 90% of target (threshold performance) would be minimum performance and achievement of 120% of target would be maximum performance. For personal objective factors, achievement of 50% of target would be minimum performance and achievement of 120% of target would be maximum performance. Performance in between minimum and target (100%) and between target and maximum is interpolated.
 
For 2008 compensation, the corporate financial metric factor, designed to motivate our named executive officers to achieve profitable growth, is measured by the following metrics:
 
  •  2008 revenues;
 
  •  2008 Adjusted EBITDA, representing net income calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S., adjusted to eliminate interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and stock-based compensation; and
 
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The Compensation Committee selected these metrics as broad indicators of the success of our business and the likely increase in stockholder value, in order to align executive incentives with the interests of stockholders. All three corporate financial metrics are weighted equally in determining the total financial metric factor. We believe that disclosing the specific targets for each financial metric would expose us to competitive harm because the targets are indicative of our budget and operating plan, which is competitively sensitive information.
 
The Compensation Committee expects to determine the 2008 personal objective factors for each named executive officer based upon the recommendations of the Chief Executive Officer at the beginning of the year. The Compensation Committee expects to determine the personal objective factors of the Chief Executive Officer based on his recommendations and the committee’s deliberations. These objectives are intended to support the achievement of profitable growth and we expect the types of objective factors to fall into broad categories such as:
 
  •  major business initiatives or project execution;
 
  •  department goals;
 
  •  transition and succession planning issues; and
 
  •  personal development initiatives.
 
We expect specific objectives for each named executive officer to reflect his or her individual responsibilities. While goals may be subjective by nature, to the extent possible, we expect the committee to select objective and quantifiable targets in order to improve accountability for results. After the end of 2008, the Compensation Committee plans to determine the degree to which each named executive officer has achieved targeted personal objective goals, based on the evaluation of the Chief Executive Officer for the other named executive officers and, for the Chief Executive Officer, based on his recommendations and the committee’s deliberations.
 
Annual and Long-term Equity Incentives
 
Historically, our equity-based incentives to our executives, other than our founders, were primarily stock option awards. Our founders have not been granted stock options unless they were needed for internal equity reasons to help narrow the gap between the various levels of share ownership of the founders. All grants of stock options have been based upon the fair market value of our stock in the quarter in which the grant was made. While we may choose to grant stock options to named executive officers in the future, in June 2007 we started using restricted stock units for equity incentives. In 2008, we expect to use either restricted stock units or restricted stock awards for the equity-based incentive element of our executive compensation program. All equity incentive awards are made under our 2005 Stock Incentive Plan, which we refer to as the 2005 Plan.
 
A primary objective of our use of equity incentive awards is to align the interests of our directors, executive officers and employees with our business strategies and with our stockholders’ interests, and to provide annual and long-term compensation opportunities that are sufficient to attract and retain high-caliber executives to effectively execute our business strategy. In order to achieve these objectives, we have historically granted stock options, and in certain cases restricted stock units, that vest over a four-year period following the date of grant.
 
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are not necessary and restricted stock or restricted stock units would be more appropriate in that it more directly aligns the interests of named executive officers with those of our stockholders. Restricted stock and restricted stock units more directly reward performance based on measures that the named executive officers are able to influence, such as financial performance of the company, rather than stock price, which can be subject to market forces.
 
The Compensation Committee expects each year to grant equity incentive awards to each named executive officer that if earned at the target level of performance would represent 420% of base salary for the Chief Executive Officer and 300% of the base salary for other named executive officers. The actual percentage awarded will be determined at the time of award by multiplying this target percentage by the personal objective factor achieved for the prior year (ranging from 50% to 120%). If that personal objective factor was below 50%, no equity incentive award will be granted for the current year.
 
Our restricted stock units vest on a time-based schedule, on a performance basis or both. One-third of the shares issuable upon settlement of our restricted stock units are earned on a time-vesting basis over a four-year period, with half of these time-based shares vesting two years after the grant date and the remainder vesting ratably on a monthly basis over the subsequent two years. The other two-thirds of the shares issuable upon settlement of our restricted stock units are earned based on performance criteria, which are the same three metrics, weighted equally, used for the annual cash incentive plan (annual revenues, Adjusted EBITDA and other operating plan metrics). To promote retention of our named executive officers, we have also implemented time-based restrictions for the vesting of restricted stock that is earned based on a performance basis—25% of this earned restricted stock vests one year after the settlement date, with the remaining 75% vesting ratably on a monthly basis over the following three years.
 
The tables below show the percentage of base salary that vests each year under each component of our Executive and Senior Management Incentive Program, assuming that actual performance in year one is at target and that employment continues for the four-year period.
 
Chief Executive Officer
 
                                                 
    Annual     Long-Term     Total Incentives  
    Year 1     Year 2     Year 3     Year 4     Total        
 
Total Cash Incentive
    25%                               25%  
                                                 
Equity Incentive:
                                               
Time-vested (1/3)
          70%       35%       35%       140%       140%  
Performance-vested (2/3)
    70%       70%       70%       70%       210%       280%  
                                                 
Total Equity Incentive
    70%       140%       105%       105%       350%       420%  
                                                 
                                                 
Total Incentive
    95%       140%       105%       105%       350%       445%  
                                                 


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Other Named Executive Officers
 
                                                 
    Annual     Long-Term     Total Incentives  
    Year 1     Year 2     Year 3     Year 4     Total        
 
Total Cash Incentive
    25%                               25%  
                                                 
Equity Incentive:
                                               
Time-vested (1/3)
          50%       25%       25%       100%       100%  
Performance-vested (2/3)
    50%       50%       50%       50%       150%       200%  
                                                 
Total Equity Incentive
    50%       100%       75%       75%       250%       300%  
                                                 
                                                 
Total Incentive
    75%       100%       75%       75%       250%       325%  
                                                 
 
Timing of Equity Grants
 
We expect the Compensation Committee to set awards and determine awards earned on an annual basis.
 
Post-Employment and Change in Control Arrangements
 
Upon a change in control, all unvested equity grants made under our 2005 Plan will automatically vest in an amount dependent upon the 2005 Plan participant’s years of service to us at the time of the change in control. There are currently no agreements with any plan participant, including any named executive officer, that provide for additional or accelerated compensation upon the termination of the participant’s employment or a change in control of Intelius. See below at “Employee Benefits Plan—2005 Stock Incentive Plan—Terms of Awards—Change in Control.”
 
Other Benefits
 
Our named executive officers, like our other employees, participate in various employee benefit plans, including medical and dental care plans, qualified 401(k) retirement plan, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability insurance, paid time off and other benefits.
 
Since we do not generally differentiate the benefits we offer our named executive officers from the benefits we offer our other employees, we also do not maintain any benefit programs exclusive to executives such as executive pension plans, deferred compensation plans, supplemental insurance or other executive retirement benefits.


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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
 
Summary Compensation Table—2007
 
The following table sets forth all of the compensation for the year ended December 31, 2007 awarded to, earned by or paid to our Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Financial Officer and the three other highest paid executive officers who earned compensation of $100,000 or more for services rendered to us in all capacities during 2007.
 
                                         
          Stock
    Option
             
          Awards
    Awards
    All Other
       
Name and Principal Position
  Salary     (1)     (2)     Compensation     Total  
 
Naveen K. Jain
  $ 276,250     $ 104,530     $     $ 25,928 (3)   $ 406,708  
Chief Executive Officer and President
                                       
Paul T. Cook
    174,984       39,199       131,992       7,401 (4)     353,576  
Chief Financial Officer
                                       
Edward O. Petersen
    167,500       39,199       388,916       20,370 (5)     615,985  
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
                                       
William R. Kerr(6)
    100,000             231,353             331,353  
Chief Corporate Officer
                                       
William H. Beaver, Jr. 
    200,000       39,199       76,995       8,307 (7)     324,501  
Vice President and General Counsel
                                       
 
 
(1) Each of the stock awards is comprised of restricted stock unit awards. In accordance with SEC rules, the amounts in this column represent the amounts that we recognized as compensation expense for financial statement reporting purposes for any part of 2007 in accordance with SFAS 123(R) in connection with all of the stock awards previously issued to the named executive officer using the modified prospective transition method.
 
(2) In accordance with SEC rules, the amounts in this column represent the amounts that we recognized as compensation expense for financial statement reporting purposes for any part of 2007 in accordance with SFAS 123(R) in connection with all of the options previously issued to the named executive officer using the modified prospective transition method.
 
(3) Includes parking, 401(k) plan matching and a five-year founder anniversary gift.
 
(4) Includes parking and 401(k) plan matching.
 
(5) Includes parking, 401(k) plan matching and a five-year founder anniversary gift.
 
(6) Mr. Kerr began service as our Chief Corporate Officer in June 2007. Mr. Kerr’s annual salary is $200,000.
 
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Grants of Plan-Based Awards—2007
 
The following table sets forth information concerning grants of plan-based awards to our named executive officers in 2007. We did not grant any non-equity incentive plan awards to our named executive officers in 2007.
 
                                         
                All Other
             
                Option Awards:
             
          All Other Stock
    Number of
    Exercise Price
    Grant Date Fair
 
          Awards:
    Securities
    of Option
    Value of Stock
 
          Number of
    Underlying
    Awards
    and Option
 
Name
  Grant Date     Units (1)     Options (2)     ($/Sh)     Awards(3)  
 
Naveen K. Jain
    6/15/2007       80,000           $     $ 613,597  
Paul T. Cook
    6/15/2007       30,000                   230,100  
Edward O. Petersen
    6/15/2007             500,000       6.13       1,888,250  
      6/15/2007       30,000                   230,100  
William R. Kerr
    6/30/2007             390,000       6.13       1,472,835  
William H. Beaver, Jr. 
    6/15/2007       30,000                   230,100  
 
 
(1) Each of the stock awards is comprised of restricted stock unit awards granted pursuant to our 2005 Plan. Approximately 83% of each award vests upon continuous employment over a four-year period, with 25% of that amount vesting on the first anniversary of the grant date and the remainder vesting ratably on a monthly basis over the following 36 months. The remaining 17% is earned based upon the achievement of three 2007 financial performance metrics weighted equally: annual revenues, Adjusted EBITDA and other operating plan metrics. Once earned, this 17% vests upon continuous employment over a four-year period, with 25% of that amount vesting on the first anniversary of the grant date and the remainder vesting ratably on a monthly basis over the following 36 months.
 
(2) Each option was granted pursuant to our 2005 Plan and vests as to 25% of the shares on the first anniversary of the vesting start date, with the remainder vesting ratably on a monthly basis over the following 36 months. Each stock option expires ten years after the date of grant and is granted at an exercise price equal to the fair market value of our common stock in the quarter in which the grant was made.
 
(3) The amounts in this column represent the grant date fair value, computed in accordance with SFAS 123(R), of each stock award or option granted to the named executive officer in 2007. Our compensation expense for these option grants is similarly based on the grant date fair value but is recognized over the period, typically four years, during which the named executive officer must provide services in order to earn the award. Please see Note 6 to our consolidated financial statements for a discussion of all assumptions made in determining the grant date fair values of the options we granted in 2007.


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Outstanding Equity Awards at December 31, 2007
 
The following table sets forth information concerning the number and exercise price of exercisable and unexercisable options held by the named executive officers who held options and restricted stock units as of December 31, 2007.
 
                                                 
                    Stock Awards(2)
    Option Awards(1)       Market Value
    Number of
  Number of
          Number
  of Shares or
    Securities
  Securities
          of Shares
  Units
    Underlying
  Underlying
          or Units
  of Stock That
    Unexercised
  Unexercised
  Option
  Option
  of Stock
  Have Not
    Options
  Options
  Exercise
  Expiration
  That Have
  Vested
Name
  Exercisable   Unexercisable   Price   Date   Not Vested   (3)
 
Naveen K. Jain
              $             80,000 (4)   $  
Paul T. Cook
    218,750 (5)     81,250 (5)     2.65       1/31/2015              
                              30,000 (4)      
Edward O. Petersen
    200,000 (6)           0.37       6/1/2013              
      212,500 (7)     87,500 (7)     2.65       2/17/2015              
            500,000 (8)     6.13       6/15/2017              
                              30,000 (4)      
William R. Kerr
    21,250 (9)     38,750 (9)     4.99       7/24/2016              
            390,000 (10)     6.13       6/30/2017              
William H. Beaver, Jr. 
    120,312 (11)     54,688 (11)     2.65       3/31/2015              
                              30,000 (4)      
 
 
(1) The vesting and exercisability of each stock option is described in the footnotes below. Each of these stock options expires ten years from the date of grant.
 
(2) Each stock award was granted pursuant to our 2005 Plan.
 
(3) The market value of shares or units of stock that have not vested has been determined by multiplying the number of unvested shares or units of stock by the assumed initial public offering price of $      per share, which is the midpoint of the range listed on the cover of this prospectus.
 
(4) For vesting information, see footnote 1 to Grants of Plan-Based Awards-2007 Table, above.
 
(5) This option was granted pursuant to our 2005 Plan. Option vested as to 25% of the shares of common stock underlying it on January 31, 2006 and vests as to 2.083% of the underlying shares monthly thereafter until fully vested on January 31, 2009.
 
(6) This option is fully vested.
 
(7) This option was granted pursuant to our 2005 Plan. The option vested as to 25% of the shares of common stock underlying it on February 17, 2006 and vests as to 2.083% of the underlying shares monthly thereafter until fully vested on February 17, 2009.
 
(8) This option was granted pursuant to our 2005 Plan. The option vests as to 25% of the shares of common stock underlying it on June 15, 2008 and vests as to 2.083% of the underlying shares monthly thereafter until fully vested on June 15, 2011.
 
(9) This option was granted pursuant to our 2005 Plan. The option vested as to 25% of the shares of common stock underlying it on July 24, 2007 and vests as to 2.083% of the underlying shares monthly thereafter until fully vested on July 24, 2010.
 
(10) This option was granted pursuant to our 2005 Plan. The option vests as to 25% of the shares of common stock underlying it on June 30, 2008 and vests as to 2.083% of the underlying shares monthly thereafter until fully vested on June 30, 2011.
 
(11) This option was granted pursuant to our 2005 Plan. The option vested as to 25% of the shares of common stock underlying it on March 31, 2006 and vests as to 2.083% of the underlying shares monthly thereafter until fully vested on March 31, 2009.
 
Option Exercises in Last Fiscal Year and Fiscal Year End Options Outstanding
 
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Employee Benefit Plans
 
To date, we have granted restricted stock units, restricted stock and options to purchase shares of our common stock under our 2005 Plan and options to purchase shares of our common stock under separate stock option agreements.
 
2005 Stock Incentive Plan
 
Our 2005 Plan was adopted by our Board of Directors on January 21, 2005 and approved by our stockholders on January 11, 2006.
 
Authorized Number of Shares.  We have reserved 9,250,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the 2005 Plan. As of December 31, 2007, options to purchase 3,321,725 shares were outstanding under the 2005 Plan, restricted stock units covering 320,000 shares were outstanding under the 2005 Plan, restricted stock awards covering 57,500 shares were outstanding under the 2005 Plan and 6,296,849 shares remained available for issuance under the 2005 Plan.
 
Administration.  The Compensation Committee administers the 2005 Plan and has complete discretion to make all decisions relating to the plan, provided that our Chief Executive Officer has the discretion to make equity awards of up to 35,000 shares to employees of Intelius or its subsidiaries who are not our directors or executive officers. The Compensation Committee may also modify awards before or after they are granted by changing conditions, duration or restrictions on awards to provide for earlier, later, extended or additional time for exercise, lifting restrictions and other modifications, and with respect to all participants or less than all participants.
 
Eligibility and Types of Awards.  Employees, members of our Board of Directors and consultants are eligible to receive awards under our 2005 Plan. Our 2005 Plan provides for awards of options to purchase shares of our common stock, and awards of restricted stock or restricted stock units. With respect to stock options, our 2005 Plan provides for the grant of both incentive stock options, which qualify for favorable tax treatment under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code for their recipients, and non-statutory stock options. Incentive stock options may be granted only to employees. Non-statutory stock options may be granted to our employees, officers, directors and consultants.
 
Terms of Awards
 
Stock Options.  The exercise price of options is determined by the Compensation Committee, subject to applicable statutory requirements. The exercise price of incentive stock options granted to a person who directly or by attribution owns more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of our stock must be at least equal to 110% of the fair market value of our common stock on the date of grant. Incentive stock options are granted with an exercise price at least equal to 100% of the fair market value of our common stock on the date of grant. Stock options become vested and exercisable, as applicable, within such periods, or upon such events, as determined by the committee and as set forth in the related stock option agreement. Options are generally subject to a four-year vesting period (25% on the first anniversary of the vesting start date and ratably thereafter). The maximum permitted term of options granted under our 2005 Plan is ten years.
 
After termination of an optionee’s employment with us, he or she may exercise his or her vested option for the period of time stated in the stock option agreement. Generally, if termination is due to death, disability or early retirement, the vested option will remain exercisable for 12 months. In all other cases, the vested option will generally remain exercisable for three months. However, an option may not be exercised later than its expiration


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date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an optionee is terminated for cause (as defined in our 2005 Plan), then the optionee’s options shall expire on the optionee’s termination date or at such later time and on such conditions as determined by our Compensation Committee.
 
Stock Awards.  A stock award is an award of shares of our common stock to employees generally based on the achievement of certain corporate financial objectives or employment objectives, or both, as determined by the Compensation Committee. The award may be in the form of restricted stock units or restricted stock awards.
 
Payment for Purchase of Shares of our Common Stock.  Payment for shares of our common stock under our 2005 Plan may be in cash, surrender of previously issued shares, immediate exercise of an option and sale of the underlying shares through a broker designated by us, or such other consideration as the Compensation Committee may permit.
 
Transferability of Awards.  Generally, a participant may not transfer options other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution unless approved by the Compensation Committee. During the lifetime of an optionee, the option is exercisable only by the optionee.
 
Change in Control.  Upon a change of control of Intelius, unvested equity grants made under the 2005 Plan shall automatically vest in an amount dependent upon the 2005 Plan participant’s years of service at the time of the change of control as follows:
 
0-1 years of service: 25%
1-2 years of service: 50%
2-3 years of service: 75%
3+ years of service: 100%
 
Except as otherwise provided in the instrument evidencing the award, in the event of a change of control, unvested outstanding awards may be assumed or replaced by the successor company. Outstanding unvested awards that are not assumed or replaced by the successor company will expire on the consummation of the corporate transaction that creates the change of control, at such time and on such conditions as our Board of Directors determines (including, without limitation, full or partial vesting and exercisability of any or all outstanding awards issued under our 2005 Plan).
 
Amendments or Termination.  Our Board of Directors may amend or terminate the 2005 Plan at any time, with stockholder approval. The 2005 Plan will continue in effect for ten years from its adoption date, unless the Board of Directors decides to terminate the plan earlier.
 
401(k) Plan
 
Effective June 2005, we adopted a 401(k) plan available to all employees who meet specified eligibility requirements. Eligible employees may elect to contribute up to 90% of their pre-tax gross earnings, subject to statutory limitations regarding maximum contributions. We provide matching contributions of either 4% of each participant’s gross salary per each payroll period or the amount of the participant’s contribution to the plan, whichever is less. Employee matching contributions are fully vested at the time they are made. In the year ended December 31, 2007, we made matching contributions of $149,000 in the aggregate.


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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PERSON TRANSACTIONS
 
Other than the employment arrangements described in “Management” and the transactions described below, since January 1, 2005 there has not been, nor is there currently proposed, any transaction or series of similar transactions to which we were or will be a participant:
 
  •  in which the amount involved exceeded or exceeds $120,000; and
 
  •  in which any director, executive officer, holder of more than 5% of any class of our common stock, or any immediate family member of any such person had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.
 
Recapitalization
 
In November 2007, in connection with an amendment to our certificate of incorporation, Naveen K. Jain, our President and Chief Executive Officer and one of our directors, and the Jain family trusts converted all of the outstanding shares of Class B common stock into shares of our common stock.
 
Other Transactions
 
From our inception in January 2003 until 2007, Mr. Jain used his personal credit card to pay Internet advertising expenses on our behalf, and we promptly reimbursed Mr. Jain. Reimbursements to Mr. Jain for expenditures of all types made on that credit card totaled approximately $4.2 million for 2005, $3.6 million for 2006 and $76,000 for 2007. Mr. Jain received credit card reward points for these purchases.
 
Prior Litigation Involving Naveen Jain
 
Mr. Jain was a defendant in a class action lawsuit brought under the federal securities laws against InfoSpace, Inc., Mr. Jain (who was a founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Infospace) and several other defendants. This securities class action was settled. In another litigation, an InfoSpace stockholder filed a derivative lawsuit on behalf of InfoSpace alleging “short-swing” profit liability under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Some of the factual allegations in that litigation were that deposits by the Jains’ broker of InfoSpace shares into a joint account represented “purchases” by the Jains of InfoSpace stock within six months of their sales of InfoSpace shares in the InfoSpace initial public offering. Similarly, a statement in the InfoSpace initial public offering prospectus that shares had been placed in escrow was deemed to be a purchase within six months of the Jains’ sale. This claim was also settled during the pendency of the Jains’ appeal of an adverse judgement. In 2003, Mr. Jain sued JP Morgan (successor to Hambrecht & Quist, the lead underwriter in the InfoSpace initial public offering) and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC (which represented Hambrecht & Quist in the InfoSpace initial public offering) for multiple causes of action arising out of the InfoSpace initial public offering, including negligence, breach of fiduciary duties, equitable apportionment and unjust enrichment. In 2004, Mr. Jain sued Perkins Coie LLP (which represented Mr. Jain and InfoSpace in the InfoSpace initial public offering) for multiple causes of action arising out of the InfoSpace initial public offering, including legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duties, negligent misrepresentation and wrongful disclosure, unjust enrichment and equitable indemnity. These actions have been consolidated. After an adverse ruling for Mr. Jain at the trial level, the consolidated actions are now pending on appeal to the Washington Court of Appeals.


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All other actions involving InfoSpace in which Mr. Jain was named as a defendant have been settled or otherwise resolved. We are not aware of any other pending or threatened claims arising out of our management teams previous employment by or other involvement with InfoSpace, and we do not anticipate that any members of our management team will spend any material amount of time in defense of claims pertaining to InfoSpace.
 
Professional Service Relationships
 
Arthur W. Harrigan, Jr., a member of our Board of Directors, is a senior partner with a law firm that represents Intelius in litigation matters, and has represented Mr. Jain and Kevin R. Marcus, our Chief Technology Officer, in personal litigation, and has represented Mr. Jain in Mr. Jain’s litigation against JP Morgan, Perkins Coie LLP, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC involving the InfoSpace initial public offering. We have paid fees to Mr. Harrigan’s law firm in the amounts of $75,000 for 2005, $179,000 for 2006 and $323,000 for 2007. Since the beginning of 2005, InfoSpace and its directors’ and officers’ insurance carrier paid fees on behalf of Mr. Jain to Mr. Harrigan’s law firm in the aggregate amount of $1,308,928. Mr. Jain has paid fees to Mr. Harrigan’s law firm since the beginning of 2005 in the aggregate amount of $3,782,984.
 
Employment Relationships
 
Anuradha Jain, the wife of Mr. Jain, serves as our Vice President, Community Affairs. Mrs. Jain earned total annual compensation in the amount of $661 in 2005, $16,505 in 2006 and $16,505 in 2007.
 
Todd Owens, the son of William A. Owens, the Chairman of our Board of Directors, has served as our Director of Business Development at an annual base salary of $105,000 since 2006.
 
Indemnification Agreements
 
We have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and executive officers. For a description of these agreements, see “Management—Limitation of Liability and Indemnification of Officers and Directors.”
 
Transactions with Executive Officers and Directors
 
Our Board of Directors has adopted a Conflict of Interest Policy for Senior Officers and Directors. The policy is administered by a Conflict of Interest Committee, composed of our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel. Persons covered by the policy are members of our Board of Directors, our executive officers and other senior officers.
 
The policy requires approval by the Conflict of Interest Committee before we enter into any transaction or arrangement in which one of our directors, executive officers or other senior officers has a direct or indirect material interest. The committee or the Board, by a majority vote of its disinterested members, is required to determine whether we can obtain, with reasonable efforts, a more advantageous transaction or arrangement that would not give rise to a conflict of interest.
 
The policy requires each senior officer covered under the policy to submit an annual compliance statement. Any violation of the policy by any person subject to the policy, including engaging in any transaction or arrangement without requisite approval, will subject such person to appropriate disciplinary action, up to and including termination of his or her employment.


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PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS
 
The following table provides information concerning beneficial ownership of our capital stock as of December 31, 2007 by:
 
  •  each of our directors;
 
  •  each of the named executive officers listed in the summary compensation table;
 
  •  all of our directors and executive officers as a group; and
 
  •  each stockholder known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our common stock.
 
Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. Unless otherwise indicated below, to our knowledge, the persons and entities named in the table have sole voting and sole investment power with respect to all shares beneficially owned, subject to community property laws where applicable. Shares of our common stock subject to stock options that are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days of December 31, 2007 are deemed to be outstanding and to be beneficially owned by the person holding the options for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of that person but are not treated as outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. Except as otherwise noted in the footnotes to the table below, the address of each beneficial owner listed in the table is c/o Intelius Inc., 500 108th Avenue NE, 25th Floor, Bellevue, Washington 98004.
 
The number of shares beneficially owned and percentage of common stock outstanding before and after the offering is based on 23,555,884 shares of common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2007.


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          Number of Shares
    Percentage of Shares
 
Name of Beneficial Owner
        Beneficially Owned     Beneficially Owned After Offering  
                Before
    After
 
                offering     offering  
 
Directors and Executive Officers:
                               
Naveen K. Jain
    3,662,582 (1)     15.5 %        
John K. Arnold
    3,059,662 (2)     13.0          
Kevin R. Marcus
    2,756,300       11.7          
Chandan S. Chauhan
    2,412,500 (3)     10.2          
Niraj A. Shah
    2,200,000 (4)     9.3          
Edward O. Petersen
    975,000 (5)     4.1          
Paul T. Cook
    321,250 (6)     1.4          
William H. Beaver
    180,719 (7)     *          
William R. Kerr
    23,750 (8)     *          
Chris A. Kitze
    129,000 (9)     *          
Arthur W. Harrigan
    113,124 (10)     *          
William A. Owens
    43,541 (11)     *          
Peter W. Currie
    28,500 (12)     *          
All directors and executive officers as a group (13 persons)
    15,905,928 (13)     67.5          
5% or Greater Stockholders:
                               
Atul Jain
    47,625 (14)                        
Atul Jain as Trustee of Knight and Orchid Irrevocable Trusts
    5,714,918(15)                          
Total beneficially owned by Atul Jain
    5,762,543       24.5 %        
 
 
* Less than 1%.
 
(1) Includes 17,541 shares held individually by Mr. Jain’s wife, Anuradha Jain.
 
(2) Includes 2,997,162 shares held jointly with his wife, Edwina Martin-Arnold.
 
(3) Includes 62,500 shares held by Chauhan Network LLC, which is owned by Mr. Chauhan.
 
(4) Includes 600,000 shares subject to issuance under vested options that are exercisable within 60 days from December 31, 2007.
 
(5) Includes 425,000 shares subject to issuance under vested options that are exercisable within 60 days from December 31, 2007. Also includes 20,000 shares held jointly with his wife, Jennifer Petersen.
 
(6) Includes 231,250 shares subject to issuance under vested options that are exercisable within 60 days from December 31, 2007. Also includes 40,000 shares held jointly with his wife, Koleen Cook.
 
(7) Includes 127,604 shares subject to issuance under vested options that are exercisable within 60 days from December 31, 2007.
 
(8) Represents 23,750 shares subject to issuance under vested options that are exercisable within 60 days from December 31, 2007.
 
(9) Includes 29,000 shares of restricted stock subject to our lapsing right of repurchase.
 
(10) Includes 2,916 shares subject to issuance under vested options that are exercisable within 60 days from December 31, 2007.


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(11) Includes 10,000 shares held by Montlake Partners LLC, an entity beneficially owned by Mr. Owens, and 33,541 shares subject to issuance under vested options that are exercisable within 60 days from December 31, 2007.
 
(12) Represents 28,500 shares of restricted stock subject to our lapsing right of repurchase.
 
(13) Includes 1,444,061 shares subject to issuance under vested options that are exercisable within 60 days from December 31, 2007 and 57,500 shares of restricted stock subject to our lapsing right of repurchase.
 
(14) Represents 47,625 shares held jointly with his wife, Priti Jain.
 
(15) Represents shares held by trusts established by Naveen K. Jain and his wife, Anuradha Jain, which are irrevocable grantor retained annuity trusts, or GRATs: Knight GRAT No. 1, Knight GRAT No. 2, Knight GRAT No. 3, Orchid GRAT No. 1, Orchid GRAT No. 2 and Orchid GRAT No. 3. The trustee of each such trust is Mr. Jain’s brother, Atul Jain, whose address is c/o TEOCO Corporation, 12150 Monument Drive, Suite 400, Fairfax, VA 22033. The grantors’ children are the residual beneficiaries of each trust following distributions to the grantors pursuant to each trust agreement.


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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK
 
General
 
The following is a summary of our capital stock and certain provisions of our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws as they will be in effect upon the completion of this offering. This summary does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the provisions of our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, copies of which have been filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.
 
Immediately following the completion of this offering, our authorized capital stock will consist of:
 
  •  100,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share; and
 
  •  10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.0001 par value per share.
 
As of December 31, 2007, and after giving effect to the automatic conversion of all of our outstanding preferred stock into common stock upon the completion of this offering there were outstanding:
 
  •  23,555,884 shares of common stock held by approximately 70 stockholders;
 
  •  3,321,725 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding stock options; and
 
  •  320,000 shares of common stock subject to unvested and outstanding restricted stock units.
 
Common Stock
 
Dividend Rights.  Subject to preferences that may apply to shares of preferred stock outstanding at the time, the holders of outstanding shares of our common stock are entitled to receive dividends out of funds legally available if our Board of Directors, in its discretion, determines to issue dividends and only then at the times and in the amounts that our Board of Directors may determine.
 
Voting Rights.  Each holder of common stock is entitled to one vote for each share of common stock held on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders. Our restated certificate of incorporation will eliminate the right of stockholders to cumulate votes for the election of directors.
 
No Preemptive or Similar Rights.  Our common stock is not entitled to preemptive rights and is not subject to conversion or redemption.
 
Right to Receive Liquidation Distributions.  Upon our dissolution, liquidation or winding-up, the assets legally available for distribution to our stockholders are distributable ratably among the holders of our common stock, subject to prior satisfaction of all outstanding debt and liabilities and the preferential rights and payment of liquidation preferences, if any, on any outstanding shares of preferred stock.
 
Preferred Stock
 
Upon the completion of this offering, each outstanding share of preferred stock will be automatically converted into one share of common stock.
 
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time to time the number of shares to be included in each series, and to fix the designation, powers, preferences and rights of the shares of each series and any of its qualifications, limitations or restrictions. Our Board of Directors can also increase or decrease the number of shares of any series, but not below the number of shares of that series then outstanding, without any further vote or action by our stockholders. Our Board of Directors may authorize the issuance of preferred stock with voting or conversion rights that could adversely affect the voting power or other rights of the holders of the common stock. The issuance of preferred stock, while providing flexibility in connection with possible acquisitions and other corporate purposes, could, among other things, have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of our company and may adversely affect the market price of our common stock and the voting, liquidation and other rights of the holders of common stock. We have no current plan to issue any shares of preferred stock.
 
Anti-takeover Provisions
 
Some of the provisions of Delaware law, our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws may have the effect of delaying, deferring or discouraging another person from acquiring control of our company.
 
Delaware Law
 
We are subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law regulating corporate takeovers. This section prevents some Delaware corporations from engaging, under some circumstances, in a business combination, which includes a merger or sale of at least 10% of the corporation’s assets with any interested stockholder, meaning a stockholder who, together with affiliates and associates, owns or, within three years prior to the determination of interested stockholder status, did own 15% or more of the corporation’s outstanding voting stock, unless:
 
  •  the transaction is approved by the Board of Directors prior to the time that the interested stockholder became an interested stockholder;
 
  •  upon consummation of the transaction which resulted in the stockholder’s becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced; or
 
  •  at or subsequent to such time that the stockholder became an interested stockholder the business combination is approved by the Board of Directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders by at least two-thirds of the outstanding voting stock which is not owned by the interested stockholder.
 
A Delaware corporation may “opt out” of these provisions with an express provision in its original certificate of incorporation or an express provision in its certificate or incorporation or bylaws resulting from a stockholders’ amendment approved by at least a majority of the outstanding voting shares. We do not plan to “opt out” of these provisions. The statute could prohibit or delay mergers or other takeover or change in control attempts and, accordingly, may discourage attempts to acquire us.
 
Charter and Bylaw Provisions
 
Our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide that, following the completion of this offering:
 
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  •  our stockholders may not call special meetings of our stockholders or fill vacancies on our Board of Directors;
 
  •  our Board of Directors may, without vote of the stockholders, authorize the issuance of preferred stock with voting or conversion rights that could adversely affect the voting power or other rights of the holders of the common stock, which could, among other things, have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of our company; and
 
  •  we will indemnify directors and officers against losses that they may incur in investigations and legal proceedings resulting from their services to us, which may include services in connection with takeover defense measures.
 
These provisions of our restated certificate of incorporation or amended and restated bylaws may have the effect of delaying, deferring or discouraging another person or entity from acquiring control of us.
 
Transfer Agent and Registrar
 
The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock will be          . Its telephone number is          .
 
NASDAQ Global Market Listing
 
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SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE
 
Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common stock, and we cannot assure you that a significant public market for our common stock will develop or be sustained after this offering. Nevertheless, sales of substantial amounts of our common stock, including shares issued upon the exercise of outstanding options, in the public market could cause the prevailing market price to decline and limit our ability to raise equity capital in the future.
 
Upon completion of this offering, we will have outstanding           shares of common stock, based on shares outstanding as of December 31, 2007 and shares to be sold in this offering. The shares of common stock being sold in this offering will be freely tradable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act unless purchased by our affiliates.
 
The remaining           shares held by existing stockholders will be restricted securities as that term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act. Restricted securities may be sold in the public market only if registered or if the resale qualifies for an exemption from registration under Section 4(1) or Rules 144, 144(k) or 701 promulgated under the Securities Act. We describe these rules in greater detail below.
 
As a result of the lock-up agreements described below and the provisions of Rule 144 and Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act, the shares of our common stock, excluding the shares sold in this offering, that will be available for sale in the public market are as follows:
 
         
    Approximate
 
Date of Availability of Sale
  Number of Shares  
 
As of the date of this prospectus
           
Beginning 90 days after the date of this prospectus
       
At various times beginning 180 days (subject to possible extension) after the date of this prospectus
          *
 
 
* Of these shares,           will be subject to volume limitations under Rule 144 as more fully described below.
 
In addition, as of December 31, 2007, options to purchase a total of 3,321,725 shares of common stock were outstanding, of which options to purchase 1,599,930 shares were vested and exercisable as of December 31, 2007. As of December 31, 2007, there also were 320,000 unvested and outstanding restricted stock units.
 
Lock-Up Agreements
 
Each of our executive officers and directors, and the holders of substantially all of the outstanding shares of our common stock, restricted stock units and options to purchase our common stock have agreed with the underwriters, subject to certain exceptions, not to dispose of or hedge any of their common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of common stock for a period through the date 180 days after the date of the final prospectus for this offering, subject to extension in certain circumstances as described in the section entitled “Underwriting,” except with the prior written consent of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. together may, in their sole discretion, release for sale in the public market all or any portion of the shares subject to the lock-up agreement prior to the expiration of the lock-up period.
 
Rule 144
 
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and has beneficially owned shares of our common stock for at least six months would be entitled to freely sell such common stock subject only to the availability of current public information regarding us. An affiliate of us who has beneficially owned shares of our common stock for at least six months would be entitled to sell within any three-month period a number of shares that does not exceed the greater of:
 
  •  1% of the then outstanding shares of our common stock, which will be approximately           shares immediately after this offering; or
 
  •  the average weekly trading volume in our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Market during the four calendar weeks preceding the filing of a notice on Form 144 with respect to such sale.
 
Sales under Rule 144 are also subject to manner of sale provisions and notice requirements and to the availability of current public information about us. In addition, a person who is not deemed to have been an affiliate at any time during the three months preceding a sale and who has beneficially owned the shares proposed to be sold for at least one year would be entitled to sell these shares under Rule 144(k) without regard to the requirements described above. To the extent that shares were acquired from one of our affiliates, a person’s holding period for the purpose of effecting a sale under Rule 144 would commence on the date of transfer from the affiliate.
 
Rule 701
 
Any employee, officer or director of or consultant to us who purchased shares under a written compensatory plan or contract may be entitled to rely on the resale provisions of Rule 701. Rule 701 permits affiliates to sell their Rule 701 shares under Rule 144 without complying with the holding period requirements of Rule 144. Rule 701 further provides that non-affiliates may sell such shares in reliance on Rule 144 without having to comply with the holding period, public information, volume limitation or notice provisions of Rule 144. All holders of Rule 701 shares are required to wait until 90 days after the date of the final prospectus for this offering before selling such shares.
 
Form S-8 Registration Statements
 
Prior to the expiration of the lock-up period, we intend to file one or more registration statements on Form S-8 under the Securities Act to register the shares of our common stock that are issuable pursuant to our equity incentive plans and agreements. Subject to applicable vesting restrictions, these shares will be available for resale in the public market immediately upon the effectiveness of these registration statements and following the expiration of the lock-up agreements described above, except with respect to Rule 144 volume limitations that apply to our affiliates.


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MATERIAL UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES TO
NON-U.S. STOCKHOLDERS
 
The following discussion is a summary of the material U.S. federal income and estate tax considerations generally applicable to the purchase, ownership and disposition of our common stock by Non-U.S. Holders (as defined below). This summary deals only with our common stock held as capital assets (generally property held for investment) by holders who purchase common stock in this offering. This discussion does not cover all aspects of U.S. federal income and estate taxation that may be relevant to the purchase, ownership or disposition of our common stock by prospective investors in light of their particular circumstances. In particular, this discussion does not address all of the tax considerations that may be relevant to certain types of investors subject to special treatment under U.S. federal income tax laws, such as:
 
  •  dealers in securities or currencies;
 
  •  financial institutions;
 
  •  regulated investment companies;
 
  •  real estate investment trusts;
 
  •  tax-exempt entities;
 
  •  insurance companies;
 
  •  persons holding common stock as part of a hedging, integrated, conversion or constructive sale transaction or a straddle;
 
  •  traders in securities that elect to use a mark-to-market method of accounting for their securities holdings;
 
  •  persons liable for alternative minimum tax;
 
  •  U.S. expatriates;
 
  •  partnerships or entities or arrangements treated as a partnership or other pass-through entity for U.S. federal tax purposes (or investors in such entities); or
 
  •  U.S. Holders (as defined below).
 
Furthermore, this summary is based upon the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, the Treasury regulations promulgated under the Code and administrative and judicial interpretations thereof, all as of the date hereof. Such authorities may be repealed, revoked, modified or subject to differing interpretations, possibly on a retroactive basis, so as to result in U.S. federal income and other tax consequences different from those discussed below. We have not received a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, or the IRS, with respect to any of the U.S. federal tax considerations discussed in this summary. This discussion does not address any state, local or non-U.S. tax considerations, or except to the limited extent below, or the effect of the federal estate and gift tax laws.
 
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  •  an individual citizen or resident of the U.S.;
 
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  •  an estate, the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source; or
 
  •  a trust if it (i) is subject to the primary supervision of a court within the U.S. and one or more U.S. persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust, or (ii) has a valid election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations to be treated as a U.S. person.
 
A “Non-U.S. Holder” is a beneficial owner of our common stock (other than a partnership or an entity or arrangement treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes) that is not a U.S. Holder. If a Non-U.S. holder is an individual, the holder may, in many cases, be deemed to be a resident alien, as opposed to a nonresident alien, by virtue of being present in the U.S. for at least 31 days in the calendar year and for an aggregate of at least 183 days during a three year period ending in the current calendar year. For these purposes all the days present in the current year, one third of the days present in the immediately preceding year, and one sixth of the days present in the second preceding year are counted. Resident aliens are subject to U.S. federal income tax as if they were U.S. citizens.
 
If a partnership or other entity or arrangement treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes holds our common stock, the U.S. federal income tax treatment of a partner in such partnership will generally depend upon the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. If you are a partnership or a partner of a partnership holding our common stock, we particularly urge you to consult your own tax advisors.
 
If you are considering the purchase of our common stock, we urge you to consult your own tax advisors concerning the particular U.S. federal income and other tax consequences to you of the purchase, ownership and disposition of our common stock, as well as any consequences to you arising under state, local and non-U.S. tax laws.
 
The following discussion applies only to Non-U.S. Holders. Special rules may apply to you if you are a “controlled foreign corporation” or a “passive foreign investment company,” or are otherwise subject to special treatment under the Code. Any such holders should consult their own tax advisors to determine the U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. income and other tax consequences that may be relevant to them.
 
Dividends
 
We have never paid any dividends on our common stock and do not expect to do so within the foreseeable future. The following discussion is provided in the event that policy should change for any reason.
 
Dividends paid to you (to the extent paid out of our current or accumulated earnings and profits, as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) generally will be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax at a 30% rate, or such lower rate as may be specified by an applicable tax treaty between the U.S. and the Non-U.S. Holder’s country of residence. If you wish to claim the benefit of an applicable treaty rate for dividends paid on our common stock, you must provide the withholding agent with a properly executed IRS Form W-8BEN, claiming an exemption from or reduction in withholding under the applicable income tax treaty. In the case of common stock held by a foreign intermediary (other than a “qualified intermediary”), the intermediary generally must provide an IRS Form W-8IMY and attach thereto an appropriate certification by each beneficial owner for which it is receiving the dividends. For payments made to a foreign partnership or other flow through entity, the certification requirements generally apply to the partners or other owners rather than to the partnership or


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other entity, and the partnership or other entity must provide the partners’ or other owners’ documentation to us or our paying agent.
 
However, dividends received by you that are effectively connected with a trade or business you conduct within the U.S., or, if certain tax treaties apply, are attributable to a permanent establishment you maintain in the U.S., are not subject to U.S. federal withholding tax, but instead are subject to U.S. federal income tax on a net income basis at the applicable graduated individual or corporate rates, subject to any applicable tax treaty providing otherwise. Special certification and disclosure requirements must be satisfied for effectively connected income to be exempt from withholding (such as providing us with IRS Form W-8ECI properly certifying such exemption). If you are a corporation, any such effectively connected dividends that you receive may be subject to an additional branch profits tax at a 30% rate or such lower rate as may be specified by an applicable income tax treaty between the U.S. and the Non-U.S. Holder’s country of residence.
 
If you are eligible for a reduced rate of U.S. federal withholding tax pursuant to an applicable income tax treaty, you may obtain a refund of any excess amounts withheld by filing an appropriate claim for refund with the IRS.
 
Sale, Exchange or Other Taxable Disposition of Common Stock
 
You generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to gain recognized on a sale, exchange or other taxable disposition of shares of our common stock unless:
 
  •  the gain is effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business in the U.S., or, if certain tax treaties apply, is attributable to a permanent establishment you maintain in the U.S.;
 
  •  if you are an individual and hold shares of our common stock as a capital asset, you are present in the U.S. for 183 or more days in the taxable year of the sale, exchange or other taxable disposition, and certain other conditions are met; or
 
  •  our common stock constitutes a “United States real property interest” by reason of our status as a “United States real property holding corporation,” or a USRPHC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes at any time during the shorter of the 5-year period ending on the date you dispose of our common stock or the period you held our common stock. The determination of whether we are a USRPHC depends on the fair market value of our U.S. real property interests relative to the fair market value of our other business assets. In general, we would be a U.S. real property holding corporation if interests in U.S. real estate comprised at least half of our assets. We believe we are not currently and do not anticipate becoming a USRPHC.
 
If you are described in the first bullet above, you will be subject to tax on any gain derived from the sale, exchange or other taxable disposition at applicable graduated U.S. federal income tax rates. If you are eligible for the benefits of a tax treaty between the U.S. and your country of residence, any “effectively connected” gain would generally be subject to U.S. federal income tax only if it is also attributable to a permanent establishment or fixed base maintained by the holder in the U.S. If you are a corporation, you may be subject to the branch profits tax on your effectively connected earnings and profits for the taxable year, which would include such gain, at a rate of 30% or at such lower rate as may be specified by an applicable income tax treaty, subject to adjustments.
 
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disposition that may be offset by U.S. source capital losses (even though you are not considered a resident of the U.S.).
 
U.S. Federal Estate Tax
 
Shares of our common stock held by an individual Non-U.S. Holder at the time of his or her death will be included in such Non-U.S. Holder’s gross estate for U.S. federal estate tax purposes, unless an applicable estate tax treaty provides otherwise.
 
Information Reporting and Backup Withholding
 
You may be subject to information reporting and backup withholding with respect to any dividends on, and the proceeds from dispositions of, our common stock paid to you, unless you comply with certain reporting procedures (usually satisfied by providing an IRS Form W-8BEN) or otherwise establish an exemption. The backup withholding tax rate currently is 28%. Additional rules relating to information reporting requirements and backup withholding with respect to the payment of proceeds from the disposition of shares of our common stock will apply as follows:
 
  •  if the proceeds are paid to or through the U.S. office of a broker (U.S. or foreign), they generally will be subject to backup withholding and information reporting, unless you certify that you are not a U.S. person under penalties of perjury (usually on an IRS Form W-8BEN) or otherwise establish an exemption;
 
  •  if the proceeds are paid to or through a non-U.S. office of a broker that is not a U.S. person and is not a foreign person with certain specified U.S. connections, or a U.S. Related Person, they will not be subject to backup withholding or information reporting; and
 
  •  if the proceeds are paid to or through a non-U.S. office of a broker that is a U.S. person or a U.S. Related Person, they generally will be subject to information reporting (but not backup withholding), unless you certify that you are not a U.S. person under penalties of perjury (usually on an IRS Form W-8BEN) or otherwise establish an exemption.
 
In addition, the amount of any dividends paid to you and the amount of tax, if any, withheld from such payment generally must be reported annually to you and the IRS. The IRS may make such information available under the provisions of an applicable income tax treaty to the tax authorities in the country in which you reside.
 
Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules will be allowed as a refund or a credit against your U.S. federal income tax liability provided the required information is timely furnished by you to the IRS. Non-U.S. Holders should consult their own tax advisors regarding the filing of a U.S. tax return for claiming a refund of such backup withholding.
 
THE PRECEDING DISCUSSION OF U.S. FEDERAL TAX CONSIDERATIONS IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION ONLY. IT IS NOT TAX ADVICE. EACH PROSPECTIVE INVESTOR SHOULD CONSULT ITS OWN TAX ADVISOR REGARDING THE PARTICULAR U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, AND FOREIGN TAX CONSEQUENCES OF PURCHASING, HOLDING, AND DISPOSING OF OUR COMMON STOCK, INCLUDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY PROPOSED CHANGE IN APPLICABLE LAWS.


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UNDERWRITING
 
Subject to the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement, the underwriters named below, through their representatives Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., CIBC World Markets Corp. and Cowen and Company, LLC, have severally agreed to purchase from us the following respective number of shares of common stock at a public offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions set forth on the cover page of this prospectus:
 
         
    Number
 
Underwriters
  of Shares  
 
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. 
       
Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. 
       
CIBC World Markets Corp. 
       
Cowen and Company, LLC
                
         
Total
       
         
 
The underwriting agreement provides that the obligations of the several underwriters to purchase the shares of common stock offered hereby are subject to certain conditions precedent and that the underwriters will purchase all of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus, other than those covered by the over-allotment option described below, if any of these shares are purchased.
 
We have been advised by the representatives of the underwriters that the underwriters propose to offer the shares of common stock to the public at the public offering price set forth on the cover of this prospectus and to dealers at a price that represents a concession not in excess of $      per share under the public offering price. The underwriters may allow, and these dealers may re-allow, a concession of not more than $      per share to other dealers. After the initial public offering, representatives of the underwriters may change the offering price and other selling terms.
 
We have granted to the underwriters an option, exercisable not later than 30 days after the date of this prospectus, to purchase up to          additional shares of common stock at the public offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions set forth on the cover page of this prospectus. The underwriters may exercise this option only to cover over-allotments made in connection with the sale of the common stock offered by this prospectus. To the extent that the underwriters exercise this option, each of the underwriters will become obligated, subject to conditions, to purchase approximately the same percentage of these additional shares of common stock as the number of shares of common stock to be purchased by it in the above table bears to the total number of shares of common stock offered by this prospectus. We will be obligated, pursuant to the option, to sell these additional shares of common stock to the underwriters to the extent the option is exercised. If any additional shares of common stock are purchased, the underwriters will offer the additional shares on the same terms as those on which the shares are being offered.
 
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commissions, assuming either no exercise or full exercise by the underwriters of the underwriters’ over-allotment option:
 
                         
          Total Fees  
          Without Exercise of
    With Full Exercise
 
    Fee per Share     Over-Allotment Option     of Over-Allotment Option  
 
Discounts and commissions paid by us
                       
 
In addition, we estimate that our share of the total expenses of this offering, excluding underwriting discounts and commissions, will be approximately $     .
 
We have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against some specified types of liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, and to contribute to payments the underwriters may be required to make in respect of any of these liabilities.
 
Each of our executive officers and directors, and the holders of substantially all of the outstanding shares of our common stock, restricted stock units and options to purchase our common stock have agreed not to offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of, or enter into any transaction that is designed to, or could be expected to, result in the disposition of any shares of our common stock or other securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of our common stock or derivatives of our common stock owned by these persons prior to this offering or common stock issuable upon exercise of options or warrants held by these persons for a period of 180 days after the date of the final prospectus of this offering without the prior written consent of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. This consent may be given at any time without public notice. Transfers or dispositions can be made during the lock-up period in the case of gifts or for estate planning purposes where the donee signs a lock-up agreement. We have entered into a similar agreement with the representatives of the underwriters except that without such consent we may grant options and issue shares upon exercise of outstanding options. There are no agreements between the representatives and any of our stockholders or affiliates releasing them from these lock-up agreements prior to the expiration of the 180-day period.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (a) during the last 17 days of the lock-up period we release earnings results or material news or a material event relating to us occurs, or (b) prior to the expiration of the lock-up period, we announce that we will release earnings results during the 16-day period following the last day of the lock-up period, the above restrictions shall continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the date of the release of the earnings results or the occurrence of the material news or material event.
 
The representatives of the underwriters have advised us that the underwriters do not intend to confirm sales to any account over which they exercise discretionary authority.
 
In connection with the offering, the underwriters may purchase and sell shares of our common stock in the open market. These transactions may include short sales, purchases to cover positions created by short sales and stabilizing transactions.
 
Short sales involve the sale by the underwriters of a greater number of shares than they are required to purchase in the offering. Covered short sales are sales made in an amount not greater than the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares of common stock from us in the offering. The underwriters may close out any covered short position by either exercising their option to purchase additional shares or purchasing shares in the open market. In determining the source of shares to close out the covered short position, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the price of shares available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which they may purchase shares through the over-allotment option.


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Naked short sales are any sales in excess of the over-allotment option. The underwriters must close out any naked short position by purchasing shares in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of the shares in the open market prior to the completion of the offering.
 
Stabilizing transactions consist of various bids for or purchases of our common stock made by the underwriters in the open market prior to the completion of the offering.
 
The underwriters may impose a penalty bid. This occurs when a particular underwriter repays to the other underwriters a portion of the underwriting discount received by it because the representatives of the underwriters have repurchased shares sold by or for the account of that underwriter in stabilizing or short covering transactions.
 
Purchases to cover a short position and stabilizing transactions may have the effect of preventing or slowing a decline in the market price of our common stock. Additionally, these purchases, along with the imposition of the penalty bid, may stabilize, maintain or otherwise affect the market price of our common stock. As a result, the price of our common stock may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market. These transactions may be effected on The NASDAQ Global Market or otherwise.
 
Pricing of this Offering
 
Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common stock. Consequently, the initial public offering price of our common stock will be determined by negotiation among us and the representatives of the underwriters. Among the primary factors that will be considered in determining the public offering price:
 
  •  prevailing market conditions;
 
  •  our results of operations in recent periods;
 
  •  the present stage of our development;
 
  •  the market capitalizations and stages of development of other companies that we and the representatives of the underwriters believe to be comparable of our business; and
 
  •  estimates of our business potential.
 
A prospectus in electronic format is being made available on Internet websites maintained by one or more of the lead underwriters of this offering and may be made available on websites maintained by other underwriters. Other than the prospectus in electronic format, the information on any underwriter’s website and any information contained in any other website maintained by an underwriter is not part of the prospectus or the registration statement of which the prospectus forms a part.
 
Selling Restrictions
 
European Economic Area
 
In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area that has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a Relevant Member State), with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the Relevant Implementation Date), an offer of shares described in this prospectus may not be made to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the shares that has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant


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Member State or, where appropriate, has been approved in another Relevant Member State and notified the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, an offer of shares to the public may be made in that Relevant Member State at any time:
 
  •  to legal entities that are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
 
  •  to any legal entity that has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than €43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than €50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts;
 
  •  to fewer than 100 natural or legal persons (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Directive) subject to obtaining the prior consent of the representatives for any such offer; or
 
  •  in any other circumstances that do not require the publication by the Issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive.
 
For the purposes of this provision, the expression “offer of shares to the public” in relation to any shares in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the shares to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the shares, as the same may be varied in that Relevant Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Relevant Member State, and the expression, “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
 
The sellers of the shares have not authorized and do not authorize the making of any offer of shares through any financial intermediary on their behalf, other than offers made by the underwriters with a view to the final placement of the shares as contemplated in this prospectus. Accordingly, no purchaser of the shares, other than the underwriters, is authorized to make any further offer of the shares on behalf of the sellers or the underwriters.
 
United Kingdom
 
This prospectus has only been communicated or caused to have been communicated and will only be communicated or caused to be communicated as an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act of 2000 (as amended), or FSMA) as received in connection with the issue or sale of the shares in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the Issuer. All applicable provisions of the FSMA will be complied with in respect to anything done in relation to the shares in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
 
LEGAL MATTERS
 
The validity of the common stock being offered will be passed upon for Intelius by Karr Tuttle Campbell PS, Seattle, Washington and for the underwriters by Fenwick & West LLP, Mountain View, California.
 
EXPERTS
 
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Seidman, LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, to the extent and for the periods set forth in their reports appearing elsewhere in this prospectus and in the registration statement, and are included in reliance upon such reports given upon the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.
 
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
 
We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act with respect to the shares of common stock we are offering. This prospectus contains all information about us and our common stock that may be material to an investor in this offering, but does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement or the exhibits and schedules filed therewith. For further information about us and the common stock offered hereby, we refer you to the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules filed thereto.
 
You may inspect a copy of the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules to the registration statement without charge at the offices of the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain copies of all or any part of the registration statement from the Public Reference Section of the SEC,100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549 upon the payment of the prescribed fees. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains a website at www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants like us that file electronically with the SEC. You can also inspect our registration statement on this website.


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INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
         
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
Board of Directors
Intelius Inc.
Bellevue, Washington
 
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Intelius Inc. as of December 31, 2005 and 2006, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2006. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
 
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s financial control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examples, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
 
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Intelius Inc. at December 31, 2005 and 2006, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2006 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
 
As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, during 2006, the Company adopted Statements of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment.
 
/s/  BDO Seidman, LLP
 
Seattle, Washington
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INTELIUS INC.
 
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
 
                         
    December 31,     September 30,  
    2005     2006     2007  
                (unaudited)  
 
ASSETS
                       
Current assets:
                       
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 2,983     $ 5,327     $ 9,063  
Accounts receivable, net
    305       1,879       6,676  
Prepaid expenses
    3,546       1,542       2,292  
Deposits and other current assets
    1,000       1,005       649  
Income taxes receivable
    572       797        
Deferred tax assets, net current
    42       334       782  
                         
Total current assets
    8,448       10,884       19,462  
Property and equipment, net
    573       1,108       2,227  
Databases, net
    324       390       446  
Other intangibles, net
    3,911       7,032       5,235  
Deferred tax assets, net non-current
                284  
Deposits and other assets
    1,618       1,659       2,313  
Goodwill
    1,059       1,888       1,888  
                         
Total assets
  $ 15,933     $ 22,961     $ 31,855  
                         
                         
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY                        
Current liabilities:
                       
Accounts payable
  $ 1,721     $ 3,958     $ 4,794  
Accrued compensation
    1,291       548       609  
Accrued expenses and other liabilities
    36       338       201  
Income taxes payable
                1,492  
Deferred revenue, current
    1,091       1,466       1,265  
Notes payable to stockholders
    155       136        
                         
Total current liabilities
    4,294       6,446       8,361  
Deferred rent, non-current
          87       239  
Deferred revenue, non-current
    28       42       34  
Capital lease obligation, non-current
                83  
Deferred tax liabilities, net, non-current
    1,253       505        
                         
Total liabilities
    5,575       7,080       8,717  
                         
Commitments and contingencies (Notes 8 and 11)
                       
Stockholders’ equity:
                       
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value:
                       
3,000,000 shares authorized, 1,667,500 shares issued and outstanding
                 
Common stock, $0.0001 par value:
                       
Class A: 21,000,000 shares authorized, 12,400,000, 12,458,750 and 12,540,208 shares issued and outstanding
    1       1       1  
Class B: 9,000,000 shares authorized, 8,100,000 shares issued and outstanding
    1       1       1  
Additional paid-in capital
    3,412       4,418       5,543  
Retained earnings
    6,944       11,461       17,593  
                         
Total stockholders’ equity
    10,358       15,881       23,138  
                         
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
  $ 15,933     $ 22,961     $ 31,855  
                         
 
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INTELIUS INC.
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share data)
 
                                         
          Nine Months
 
    Year Ended
    Ended
 
    December 31,     September 30,  
    2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
                      (unaudited)  
 
Revenues
  $ 18,122     $ 44,040     $ 54,720     $ 39,932     $ 60,238  
Costs and expenses:
                                       
Content and support
    3,162       5,262       6,752       4,426       9,974  
Sales and marketing
    11,015       26,415       35,545       25,065       34,635  
Product development
    825       1,064       1,490       991       2,116  
General and administrative
    1,433       1,831       3,916       2,674       4,299  
                                         
Total costs and expenses
    16,435       34,572       47,703       33,156       51,024  
                                         
Operating income
    1,687       9,468       7,017       6,776       9,214  
Interest and other expenses
                            (106 )
Interest income
    9       39       147       109       117  
                                         
Income before income taxes
    1,696       9,507       7,164       6,885       9,225  
Provision for income taxes
    556       3,223       2,647       2,502       3,093  
                                         
Net income
  $ 1,140     $ 6,284     $ 4,517     $ 4,383     $ 6,132  
                                         
Net income per share:
                                       
Basic
  $ 0.06     $ 0.31     $ 0.22     $ 0.21     $ 0.30  
Diluted
  $ 0.05     $ 0.28     $ 0.20     $ 0.19     $ 0.27  
Shares used in calculation of basic and diluted net income per share:
                                       
Basic
    20,000       20,203       20,505       20,500       20,548  
Diluted
    22,009       22,480       22,869       22,836       23,122  
 
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INTELIUS INC.
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(in thousands, except share data)
 
 
                                                                         
    Preferred Stock     Common Stock     Additional
          Total
 
                Class A     Class B     Paid-In
    Retained
    Stockholders’
 
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Capital     Earnings     Equity  
 
Balance, January 1, 2004
    1,667,500     $       11,900,000     $ 1       8,100,000     $ 1     $ 1,667     $ (480 )   $ 1,189  
Net income
                                              1,140       1,140  
                                                                         
Balance, December 31, 2004
    1,667,500             11,900,000       1       8,100,000       1       1,667       660       2,329  
Stock issuance in business acquisition
                500,000                         1,745             1,745  
Net income
                                              6,284       6,284  
                                                                         
Balance, December 31, 2005
    1,667,500             12,400,000       1       8,100,000       1       3,412       6,944       10,358  
Stock issuance in business acquisition
                40,000                         218             218  
Stock option exercises
                18,750                         50             50  
Tax benefit from stock options
                                        13             13  
Stock-based compensation expense
                                        725             725  
Net income
                                              4,517       4,517  
                                                                         
Balance, December 31, 2006
    1,667,500             12,458,750       1       8,100,000       1       4,418       11,461       15,881  
Stock option exercises (unaudited)
                23,958                         109             109  
Tax benefit from stock options (unaudited)
                                        (10 )           (10 )
Common stock awards issued (unaudited)
                57,500                                      
Stock-based compensation expense (unaudited)
                                        1,026             1,026  
Net income (unaudited)
                                              6,132       6,132  
                                                                         
Balance, September 30, 2007 (unaudited)
    1,667,500     $       12,540,208     $ 1       8,100,000     $ 1     $ 5,543     $ 17,593     $ 23,138  
                                                                         
 
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INTELIUS INC.
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
 
                                         
          Nine Months
 
    Year Ended
    Ended
 
    December 31,     September 30,  
    2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
                      (unaudited)  
 
Operating activities:
                                       
Net income
  $ 1,140     $ 6,284     $ 4,517     $ 4,383     $ 6,132  
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
                                       
Non-cash expenses:
                                       
Depreciation and amortization of property and equipment
    93       194       356       257       498  
Amortization of databases
    29       52       73       54       61  
Amortization of other intangible assets
    9       544       2,210       1,518       2,201  
Stock-based compensation
                725       517       1,026  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
                                       
Accounts receivable, net
    (229 )     402       (1,574 )     (1,834 )     (4,797 )
Prepaid expenses
    (1,202 )     (2,168 )     2,004       1,749       (750 )
Deposits and other current assets
          (1,000 )     (5 )     (4 )     356  
Deposits and other assets
    (1,005 )     (513 )     (41 )     (31 )     (654 )
Accounts payable
    (196 )     790       2,273       1,161       700  
Accrued compensation
    1,565       (293 )     (743 )     (968 )     61  
Accrued expenses and other liabilities
    (115 )     (52 )     389       131       (59 )
Deferred revenue
    153       964       389       474       (209 )
Deferred taxes, net
    241       (238 )     (1,040 )     (681 )     (1,237 )
Income taxes receivable
    220       (847 )     (225 )     53       2,289  
                                         
Net cash provided by operating activities
    703       4,119       9,308       6,779       5,618  
                                         
Investing activities:
                                       
Purchases of property and equipment
    (206 )     (428 )     (858 )     (643 )     (1,460 )
Purchases of databases
    (167 )     (160 )     (139 )     (136 )     (117 )
Purchases of other intangible assets
    (200 )     (10 )     (3,670 )     (3,670 )     (404 )
Purchases of investments
          (100 )                  
Cash paid for acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired
          (1,670 )     (2,205 )            
                                         
Net cash used in investing activities
    (573 )     (2,368 )     (6,872 )     (4,449 )     (1,981 )
                                         
Financing activities:
                                       
Proceeds from issuance of common stock
                50             109  
Excess (write-off) tax benefits from stock-based compensation
                13             (10 )
Principal repayment on note payable
          (525 )     (155 )     (155 )      
                                         
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
          (525 )     (92 )     (155 )     99  
                                         
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
    130       1,226       2,344       2,175       3,736  
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
    1,627       1,757       2,983       2,983       5,327  
                                         
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
  $ 1,757     $ 2,983     $ 5,327     $ 5,158     $ 9,063  
                                         
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
                                       
Cash paid for income taxes
  $ 95     $ 4,308     $ 3,900     $ 3,127     $ 2,051  
                                         
 
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INTELIUS INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Years Ended December 31, 2004, 2005, and 2006 and the
Nine-Month Periods Ended September 30, 2006 and 2007 (Unaudited)
 
1.   Summary of Accounting Policies
 
Description of Business
 
Intelius Inc. (the “Company” or “Intelius”) was incorporated in Delaware on January 7, 2003, and has its principal offices located in Bellevue, Washington. The Company is a leading Information Commerce company that provides intelligence services to consumers over the Internet. The Company’s intelligence services help its customers manage personal and information security risks that affect their private, professional and social lives and help them find and verify information about friends, customers and businesses.
 
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Intelius Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Intelius Sales Company LLC, Qwil Company and IntelliSense LLC. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
 
Unaudited Interim Financial Information
 
The accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2007, the consolidated statements of operations and cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, and the consolidated statement of stockholders’ equity for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 are unaudited. The unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the annual consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary to state fairly the Company’s consolidated financial position and stockholders’ equity as of September 30, 2007 and consolidated results of operations and cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and 2007. The financial data and other information disclosed in these notes to financial statements as of September 30, 2007 and for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007 are unaudited. The results for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2007 or for any other interim period or for any future year.
 
Revenue Recognition
 
The Company recognizes revenues when the following four revenue recognition criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or services have been rendered, the selling price is fixed or determinable, and collectibility is reasonably assured.
 
In general, the Company generates revenues either by charging its customers fees for intelligence services or by selling advertising on the Company owned websites.
 
The Company sells intelligence services to consumers on a transaction or subscription basis. Our customers receive these intelligence services in the form of reports delivered instantly over the Internet at the time of sale. Consumers typically pay at the time of purchase by credit card. In addition, the Company sells subscriptions to periodic reports such as its Background Monitoring service, and continuous services such as its IDWatch service.


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
The Company also sells intelligence services that are comprised of screening, such as employment and tenant screening, and marketing services, such as lead generation and data cleansing, to enterprises. Those services are sold on a transaction or subscription basis. Enterprise customers are ordinarily billed on a monthly basis; however, the Company also makes prepayment arrangements available to its customers.
 
All of our intelligence services include a license to use our proprietary software to access our platform. Each transaction is considered a single delivered element. As a result, the entire fee is recognized when the reports are delivered to the customer. We do not provide post-contract support services and have no ongoing obligation after the delivery of the reports.
 
Unearned revenues are recorded when payments are made by customers for volume purchases of reports in advance of report delivery and amortized into revenues as the reports are delivered. Revenues from the sale of subscriptions to periodic reports and continuous services are recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the agreement, ranging from three months to three years.
 
For distribution relationships in which the Company shares a portion of the revenues earned through a distributor’s website, revenues are recorded on a gross basis in accordance with Emerging Issues Task Force Issue 99-19 (EITF 99-19), “Reporting Revenue Gross as a Principal versus Net as an Agent.”
 
The Company also generates revenues from performance-based advertising for online advertisers through post-transaction, search and display advertisements placed on selected sections of its websites.
 
Revenues from post-transaction advertising are based on cost-per-action, or CPA, arrangements. Revenues generated from CPA arrangements are recognized when the Company’s customers accept an offer for services of a third-party advertiser displayed on Intelius websites.
 
Search advertising revenues are based on cost-per-search, or CPS, arrangements. Revenues are generated when online users complete a search for an advertiser’s information on the Company’s websites.
 
Revenues from display advertising are derived from cost-per-click, or CPC, and cost-per-impression, or CPM, arrangements. In the case of CPC arrangements, the Company generates revenues from the display of text and image based links to the websites of its advertisers, which are placed on its websites. The Company recognizes revenues from these arrangements as “click-throughs” occur. A “click-through” occurs when a user clicks on an advertiser’s listing. Revenues on CPM contracts are recognized as “impressions” (i.e., the number of times that an advertisement appears in pages viewed by users of the Company’s websites) are delivered.
 
The Company records an allowance for estimated returns in the same period the related revenues are recorded. This estimated allowance is based on historical return rates and other known factors. The returns can be either voluntarily authorized by the Company at the customer’s request or can be initiated by consumers through their credit card issuer in the form of a chargeback, which is a reversal of the original transaction based on a customer dispute. The timeframe to initiate a chargeback varies by issuer, however is generally limited to a maximum of 180 days from the date of original sale. Federal laws limit the timeframe to challenge credit card charges for customer disputes to one year from the date of transaction.


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
Historically, substantially all of the Company’s voluntary returns, as well as chargebacks, occur within three months from the original sale.
 
The Company records an allowance for uncollectible accounts based upon its assessment of various factors. The Company considers historical experience, the age of the accounts receivable balances, the credit quality of its customers, current economic conditions and other factors that may affect customers’ ability to pay to determine the level of allowance required.
 
Fair Values of Financial Instruments
 
The carrying value of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximates their fair value based on the liquidity of these financial instruments or based on their short-term nature.
 
Concentrations of Risk
 
The Company maintains cash at high-quality financial institutions. At times, the balances in these accounts may be in excess of the federal insurance limit of $100,000. For purposes of the Company’s consolidated balance sheets and statements of cash flows, the Company considers all highly liquid investments having an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
 
One of the Company’s customers, Yellow Book USA, Inc., accounted for 3.5% and for 11.1% of total revenues in the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, respectively. The same customer accounted for 4.8% of total revenues in 2006. There were no revenues generated from this customer in 2004 and 2005.
 
Another of the Company’s customers, Adaptive Marketing LLC, added in late 2006, accounted for 10.8% of total revenues in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007. Revenues from this customer in 2006 were not significant.
 
Property and Equipment
 
Property and equipment is stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation and amortization, and depreciated using the straight-line method over estimated useful lives ranging from three to seven years.
 
Business Combinations
 
The Company accounts for business combinations using the purchase method of accounting prescribed by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) 141, “Business Combinations.” The total consideration paid in an acquisition is allocated to the fair value of the acquired company’s identifiable assets and liabilities. Any excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair values of the net assets acquired is recorded as goodwill. The consolidated financial statements reflect the results of operations of an acquired business from the completion date of an acquisition. The costs to acquire a business, including transaction costs, are allocated to the fair value of net assets acquired.


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
The Company identifies and records separately the intangible assets acquired apart from goodwill based on the specific criteria for separate recognition established in SFAS 141, namely:
 
  •  the asset arises from contractual or other legal rights; or
 
  •  the asset is capable of being separated from the acquired entity and sold, transferred, licensed, rented or exchanged.
 
Databases and Other Intangible Assets with Definite Lives
 
Databases consist of information used in the Company’s services and purchased from outside sources. Databases are amortized over the estimated useful life of seven years.
 
Other intangible assets with definite lives are comprised of domain names, customer relationships, noncompetition agreements and acquired technology. Other intangible assets are amortized over their estimated useful lives of three to ten years.
 
In accordance with SFAS 144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets,” the carrying value of intangible assets with definite lives is reviewed on a regular basis for the existence of facts that may indicate that the assets are impaired. An asset is considered impaired when the estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to result from its use and disposition are less than the amount of its carrying value. If the carrying value of an asset is deemed not recoverable, it is adjusted downward to the estimated fair value.
 
Goodwill
 
Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of identifiable assets acquired, including domains and other definite-lived intangible assets, and liabilities assumed in business combinations accounted for under the purchase method.
 
The Company applies the provisions of SFAS 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets.” Goodwill acquired in a purchase business combination and determined to have an indefinite useful life is not amortized, but instead tested for impairment at least annually. SFAS 142 prescribes the use of the two-phase approach for testing goodwill for impairment. The first phase is a screen for potential impairment, while the second phase (if necessary) measures the amount of impairment, if any. Goodwill has to be written down and charged to operating results in periods in which the recorded value of goodwill exceeds its fair value. No impairment of goodwill has been recognized since the initial recording of goodwill.
 
Product Development
 
Product development expense consist primarily of research and development and maintenance activities to develop new service offerings and maintain and significantly enhance existing service offerings. SFAS 86, “Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software to Be Sold, Leased, or Otherwise Marketed,” requires the capitalization of certain software development costs after technological feasibility of the software is established. In the development of new products and enhancements to existing products, the technological feasibility of the software is not established until substantially all product development is complete, including the development of a working model. Costs incurred by the Company after technological feasibility has been established have not been material, and, accordingly, all product development costs are expensed when incurred.


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
Advertising Costs
 
The Company expenses advertising costs as incurred. Total advertising expenses were approximately $10.4 million, $24.3 million and $30.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005, and 2006, respectively. Total advertising expenses were approximately $21.6 and $28.7 million for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, respectively.
 
Stock-Based Compensation
 
Effective January 1, 2006, the Company adopted the provisions of SFAS 123(R), “Share-Based Payment,” using the modified prospective transition method. SFAS 123(R) requires measurement of compensation expense for all stock-based awards at fair value on the date of grant and recognition of compensation expense over the service period for awards expected to vest. The Company determines the fair value of its stock options using the Black-Scholes valuation model, which is consistent with the valuation technique previously utilized to estimate the fair value of Intelius’ stock options in footnote disclosures required under SFAS 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation.” Restricted stock units, or RSUs, and restricted stock awards are measured based on the fair market values of the underlying stock on the dates of grant.
 
The application of the Black-Scholes model to the valuation of options requires the use of input assumptions, including expected volatility, expected term, expected dividend rate and expected risk-free rate of return. Expected volatilities are based on that of similar publicly-traded companies, as the Company’s stock is not currently publicly traded and therefore, the Company does not have observable share-price volatility. The expected term represents the weighted-average period of time that options granted are expected to be outstanding giving consideration to vesting schedules; the dividend rate is based on the Company’s history of not paying dividends and the low resultant future expectation of dividend payments; and the risk-free rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant for periods corresponding with the expected term of the option.
 
Stock-based compensation expense recognized since the adoption of SFAS 123(R) is based on awards ultimately expected to vest. The Company estimates expected forfeiture rate at the time of grant and revises the estimates, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates.
 
Prior to January 1, 2006, the Company accounted for stock-based compensation using the intrinsic value method prescribed in Accounting Principles Board (APB) Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees,” and related interpretations. Compensation expense for stock options was measured as the excess, if any, of the fair value of the Company’s common stock at the date of grant over the stock option exercise price. Stock-based compensation expense recognized for the year ended December 31, 2006 and for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007 included compensation expense for all stock-based payments granted prior to, but not yet vested, as of January 1, 2006, based on the grant date fair value estimated in accordance with the original provisions of SFAS 123, and compensation expense for all stock-based payments granted after January 1, 2006, based on the grant date fair value estimated in accordance with the provisions of SFAS 123(R).


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
Segment Information
 
SFAS 131, “Disclosures About Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information,” establishes standards for the manner in which companies report in their financial statements information about operating segments, products, services, geographic areas and major customers. The method of determining what information to report is based on the way that management organizes the operating segments within the enterprise for making operating decisions and assessing financial performance. The Company operates in one industry segment, which entails providing information-based intelligence services and advertising to consumers and enterprises. Therefore, under SFAS 131, the Company does not present a disaggregation of consolidated financial results into multiple operating segments, products, or services.
 
Income Taxes
 
The Company uses the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes in accordance with the provisions of SFAS 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to differences between the consolidated financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets are recognized for deductible temporary differences, along with net operating loss carryforwards, if it is more likely than not that the tax benefits will be realized. To the extent a deferred tax asset cannot be recognized under the preceding criteria, allowances are established. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled.
 
Use of Estimates
 
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or U.S. GAAP, requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. The Company uses estimates in determining certain provisions, including allowance for returns, useful lives for property and equipment, databases and other intangible assets, the fair value of the Company’s common stock and stock option awards, and the fair value of the Series A preferred stock. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
 
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
 
In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued SFAS 157, “Fair Value Measurements,” which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in U.S. GAAP, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. This statement applies under other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements, the Board having previously concluded that fair value is the relevant measurement attribute. Accordingly, this statement does not require any new fair value measurements. This statement is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 with a one year deferral for other nonfinancial assets and liabilities. This statement requires prospective application only and will affect primarily the additional disclosure requirements, in periods after adoption. The Company is currently evaluating the effects, if any, that the adoption of SFAS 157 will have on its results of operations, financial position, cash flows and related disclosures.


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS 159, “The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities-including an amendment of FASB Statement No. 115.” SFAS 159 allows an entity the irrevocable option to elect fair value for the initial and subsequent measurement of certain financial assets and liabilities under an instrument-by-instrument election. Subsequent measurements for the financial assets and liabilities an entity elects to fair value will be recognized in earnings. SFAS 159 also establishes additional disclosure requirements. This standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. The Company is currently evaluating the effect, if any, that the adoption of SFAS 159 will have on its results of operations, financial position, cash flows and related disclosures.
 
2.   Net Income Per Share
 
The calculations of basic and diluted net income per share for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006 and for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007 are as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):
 
                                         
                      Nine Months Ended
 
    Year Ended December 31,     September 30,  
    2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
                      (unaudited)  
 
Net income
  $ 1,140     $ 6,284     $ 4,517     $ 4,383     $ 6,132  
                                         
Denominator:
                                       
Weighted-average common shares outstanding
    20,000       20,203       20,505       20,500       20,548  
                                         
Denominator for basic net income per share
    20,000       20,203       20,505       20,500       20,548  
Effect of dilutive securities:
                                       
Employee stock options
    341       609       694       668       881  
Convertible preferred stock
    1,668       1,668       1,668       1,668       1,668  
Other restricted stock
                2             25  
                                         
Denominator for diluted net income per share
    22,009       22,480       22,869       22,836       23,122  
                                         
Net income per share, basic
  $ 0.06     $ 0.31     $ 0.22     $ 0.21     $ 0.30  
Net income per share, diluted
  $ 0.05     $ 0.28     $ 0.20     $ 0.19     $ 0.27  
 
Basic net income per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period, excluding any restricted stock that is subject to repurchase. In 2006, 20,000 shares issued in the acquisition of IntelliSense Corporation and held in escrow at December 31, 2006, were excluded from the calculation of basic shares. In the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007, the same shares of restricted stock remained in escrow and were excluded from the calculation of basic shares. Additionally, restricted stock awards issued to directors in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007 were also excluded from the calculation of basic shares in the related period, as those shares of restricted stock are subject to meeting future service conditions and remained unvested at September 30, 2007.
 
Diluted net income per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares and, if dilutive, potential common shares outstanding during the period. Potential common shares consist of restricted stock and RSUs (using the treasury stock method), the incremental shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options (using the treasury stock method) and the conversion of the Company’s preferred stock (using the if-converted method).


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
 
Common stock equivalents excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share, as their effect is anti-dilutive, are as follows (weighted-average):
 
                                         
    December 31,     September 30,  
    2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
                      (unaudited)  
 
Shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options
    1,803       15,860       366,000       311,712       645,571  
Restricted stock units and stock awards with service conditions granted to employees and directors
                            2,116  
Contingently issuable restricted stock units to be issued to employees upon the satisfaction of specified performance conditions
                            20,904  
 
RSUs granted to the Company’s employees contingent upon satisfaction of certain future performance conditions are excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share as of September 30, 2007 because those performance conditions were not yet satisfied as of that date.
 
3.   Accounts Receivable
 
Trade accounts receivable, net consisted of the following (in thousands):
 
                         
    December 31,     September 30,  
    2005     2006     2007  
                (unaudited)  
 
Trade accounts receivable
  $   405     $ 2,059     $ 7,029  
Allowance for returns
    (100 )     (120 )     (243 )
Allowance for uncollectible accounts
          (60 )     (110 )
                         
    $ 305     $ 1,879     $ 6,676  
                         
 
4.   Property and Equipment
 
Property and equipment, net, consisted of the following (in thousands):
 
                         
    December 31,     September 30,  
    2005     2006     2007  
                (unaudited)  
 
Computer equipment
  $ 777     $ 1,181     $ 2,134  
Computer equipment under a capital lease
          157        
Leasehold improvements
          202       380  
Software
    51       102       158  
Phone equipment
    39       142       265  
Furniture and fixtures
    12       143       283  
                         
      879       1,770       3,377  
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization
    (306 )     (662 )     (1,150 )
                         
    $   573     $ 1,108     $ 2,227  
                         
 
Depreciation and amortization expense was $93,000, $194,000 and $356,000 for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. Depreciation and amortization expense was $257,000 and $498,000 for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, respectively.
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
5.   Databases, Other Intangible Assets and Goodwill
 
Databases and other intangible assets, net, consisted of the following (in thousands):
 
                         
    December 31,     September 30,
 
    2005     2006     2007  
                (unaudited)  
 
Databases
  $ 414     $ 553     $ 670  
Less accumulated amortization
    (90 )     (163 )     (224 )
                         
    $ 324     $ 390     $ 446  
                         
Domain names
  $ 4,465     $ 8,135     $ 8,484  
Customer relationships
          1,570       1,570  
Non-competition agreements
          91       91  
Acquired technology
                55  
                         
      4,465       9,796       10,200  
Less accumulated amortization
    (554 )     (2,764 )     (4,965 )
                         
    $ 3,911     $ 7,032     $ 5,235  
                         
 
Database amortization expense was $29,000, $52,000 and $73,000 for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. Database amortization expense was $54,000 and $61,000 for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, respectively.
 
The amortization expense for other intangible assets was $9,000, $544,000 and $2,210,000 for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. The amortization expense for other intangible assets was $1,518,000 and $2,201,000 for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, respectively.
 
Based on identified intangible assets recorded as of September 30, 2007 and assuming no subsequent impairment of the underlying assets, amortization expense is expected to be as follows (in thousands):
 
                 
    September 30, 2007  
Year Ended
        Other
 
December 31,
  Databases     Intangible Assets  
    (unaudited)  
 
2007(1)
  $ 21     $ 750  
2008
    96       2,483  
2009
    96       829  
2010
    87       244  
2011
    67       157  
Thereafter
    79       772  
                 
    $ 446     $ 5,235  
                 
 
 
(1) The expected amortization for 2007 reflects amortization expense that the Company anticipates recognizing from October 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007.


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
 
The changes in goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2006 and for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007 were as follows (in thousands):
 
         
Balance at January 1, 2005
  $  
Goodwill recorded in connection with Qwil Company acquisition
    1,059  
         
Balance at December 31, 2005
    1,059  
Goodwill recorded in connection with IntelliSense Corporation acquisition
    829  
         
Balance at December 31, 2006 and at September 30, 2007 (unaudited)
  $ 1,888  
         
 
6.   Stockholders’ Equity
 
Common Stock
 
At inception in January 2003, the Company issued a total of 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock to its founders at an issue price equal to the par value of $0.0001 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $2,000. Of these shares, 11,900,000 shares were Class A Common Stock, and 8,100,000 shares were Class B Common Stock. The Company originally issued all of the shares of Class B Common Stock to one of its founders.
 
As discussed in Note 11, in 2005 and in 2006, Intelius issued 500,000 shares and 40,000 shares of Class A Common Stock to the shareholders of Qwil Company and to the shareholders of IntelliSense Corporation, respectively, as a portion of the consideration paid for the related acquisitions of those companies.
 
In addition, as discussed later in Note 6, shares of Class A Common Stock are issued to employees and directors as a result of the exercise of stock options and as restricted stock awards.
 
At September 30, 2007, the Company had 30,000,000 shares of Common Stock authorized, of which 21,000,000 were classified as Class A Common Stock and 9,000,000 were classified as Class B Common Stock.
 
The rights of these two classes of Common Stock as of September 30, 2007 are summarized as follows:
 
Voting Rights.  Each share of Class A Common Stock entitles its holder to one vote. Each share of Class B Common Stock entitled its holder to fifteen votes. The Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock vote together as a single class on all matters, except as otherwise required by law.
 
Conversion.  At September 30, 2007, each share of Class B Common Stock was convertible at any time at the election of its holder into one share of Class A Common Stock.
 
Dividends and Liquidation Preference.  No dividend may be paid on the Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock unless a comparable dividend is paid on each class. In the event of a stock dividend, holders of Class A Common Stock would receive shares of Class A Common Stock, and holders of Class B Common Stock would receive shares of Class B Common Stock. In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock would receive an equal per share distribution of any assets remaining after payment or provision for liabilities and payment of any liquidation preference on Preferred Stock.
 
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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
Preferred Stock
 
In 2003, the Company issued 1,667,500 shares of Series A Preferred Stock at a price of $1.00 per share, resulting in aggregate gross proceeds of $1.7 million to the Company.
 
The Company’s Certificate of Incorporation authorizes the Company to issue 3,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, all of which are designated as Series A Preferred Stock. The rights of the Series A Preferred Stock are summarized as follows:
 
Dividends.  Dividends are payable on the Series A Preferred Stock when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors.
 
Liquidation Preference.  In the event of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, holders of Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to receive $2.00 per share prior and in preference to any payment on the Common Stock. After payment of this liquidation preference, all remaining amounts would be paid out to holders of Common Stock.
 
Conversion.  Each share of Preferred Stock is convertible at any time at the election of its holder into one share of Class A Common Stock. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock will convert automatically into one share of Class A Common Stock upon the approval of holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, or upon the closing of an initial public offering of the Common Stock at a price per share of at least $4.00 and with an aggregate offering price of at least $15 million. The conversion ratio of the Series A Preferred Stock into Class A Common Stock will be adjusted proportionally to give effect to stock dividends, stock splits, reverse stock splits or similar transactions.
 
Voting.  The holder of each share of Series A Preferred Stock is entitled to the number of votes equal to the number of shares of Common Stock into which each share can be converted. The Series A Preferred Stock votes together with the Common Stock as a single class except as otherwise required by law. The consent of holders of a majority of the Series A Preferred Stock is required for specified events.
 
Stock-Based Compensation Plans—Options and Awards Activity
 
The Company grants stock options, restricted stock and RSUs to certain employees and directors.
 
During 2003 and 2004, the Company granted stock options to employees pursuant to individual stock option agreements. Those options were granted at a price per share that the Company’s Board of Directors determined to be equal to the fair market value on the date of grant. The shares subject to stock options granted to employees on the date of hire generally vest at the rate of 25% on the first anniversary of employment, and the remainder ratably on a monthly basis thereafter with all shares becoming fully vested on the fourth anniversary of employment. Options granted in 2003 and 2004 have a term of ten years. No specific amount of shares of Common Stock was reserved for issuance of stock option grants in 2004.
 
In January 2005, the Company adopted the 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2005 Plan”), for which 4,250,000 shares of Common Stock have been authorized for issuance. The 2005 Plan allows the Company’s Board of Directors to grant both stock options, designated as incentive or nonqualified, and stock awards to employees, officers, non-employee directors and consultants. Those stock options are granted at a price per share that the Company’s Board of Directors determines to be equal to the fair market value on the date of grant. Generally, stock options have ten-year terms and vest 25% at the end of first year from the vesting


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
commencement date and 2.08% every month thereafter. Vesting for the stock awards other than options varies and may include performance conditions.
 
Since June 2007, in addition to stock options, the Company has issued RSUs to certain employees and shares of restricted stock to its directors under the 2005 Plan. An RSU award is an agreement to issue shares of stock at the time of vesting. RSUs issued to employees vest over four years with a yearly cliff contingent upon employment with the Company on the vesting dates. A portion of the RSU grant amount is also contingent on meeting certain performance-based conditions. The shares of the Company’s common stock granted to the directors vest over two years from the date of grant with a yearly cliff contingent upon continued service as a director.
 
The following table summarizes the Company’s stock option activity for stock options granted for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006 and for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007:
 
                 
          Weighted Average
 
    Options     Exercise Price  
 
Balance at December 31, 2003
    820,000     $ 0.37  
Granted
    30,000       0.86  
Exercised
           
Canceled
           
                 
Balance at December 31, 2004
    850,000       0.39  
Granted
    989,000       2.76  
Exercised
           
Canceled
           
                 
Balance at December 31, 2005
    1,839,000       1.67  
Granted
    497,500       4.81  
Exercised
    (18,750 )     2.65  
Canceled
    (45,250 )     3.13  
                 
Balance at December 31, 2006
    2,272,500       2.32  
Granted (unaudited)
    997,000       6.29  
Exercised (unaudited)
    (23,958 )     4.53  
Canceled (unaudited)
    (90,908 )     3.54  
                 
Balance at September 30, 2007 (unaudited)
    3,154,634     $ 3.52  
                 


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
The weighted average remaining contractual term and weighted average exercise price of options outstanding and options exercisable at September 30, 2007, for selected exercise price ranges were as follows (unaudited):
 
                                         
    Options Outstanding              
          Weighted
          Options Exercisable
 
          Average
    Weighted
          Weighted
 
          Remaining
    Average
          Average
 
Exercise
        Contractual
    Exercise
          Exercise
 
Prices
  Shares     Life (in years)     Price     Shares     Price  
 
$0.37
    800,000       5.7     $ 0.37       800,000     $ 0.37  
 0.62-1.18
    21,958       6.6       0.82       19,331       0.81  
 2.65
    809,760       7.4       2.65       527,134       2.65  
 3.22-4.99
    500,916       8.4       4.47       198,958       4.35  
 5.44-5.50
    61,000       9.3       5.47              
 6.13
    900,500       9.7       6.13              
 9.21
    60,500       9.9       9.21              
                                         
$0.37-9.21
    3,154,634       7.9     $ 3.52       1,545,423     $ 1.67  
                                         
 
At December 31, 2006, there were 1,239,832 options exercisable with a weighted average exercise price of $1.18.
 
The aggregate intrinsic values of options outstanding and exercisable at September 30, 2007 were $17,945,000 and $11,660,000, respectively. The aggregate intrinsic values of options exercised were $38,000 and $52,000 at the nine months ended September 30, 2007 and the year ended December 31, 2006.
 
The following table summarizes the Company’s RSUs and restricted stock activity for awards granted in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007 (unaudited):
 
                 
          Weighted
 
          Average
 
          Grant Date
 
    Shares     Fair Value  
 
Unvested at December 31, 2006
        $  
Granted
    387,500       6.39  
Vested
           
Canceled
    (10,000 )     6.13  
                 
Unvested at September 30, 2007
    377,500     $ 6.40  
                 
Unvested awards with service-only conditions
    53,334          
Unvested awards with service and performance conditions
    324,166          
 
The number of options and awards available for future grants under the 2005 Plan is as follows:
 
                 
    December 31,
    September 30,
 
    2006     2007  
          (unaudited)  
 
Stock options and awards available for future grants
    2,808,750       1,497,116  
 
Stock-Based Compensation Plans—Compensation Expense
 
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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
awards at fair value on the date of grant and recognition of compensation expense over the service period for awards expected to vest. The Company determines the fair value of its stock options using the Black-Scholes valuation model.
 
RSUs and restricted stock awards are measured based on the fair market values of the underlying stock on the dates of grant.
 
Prior to 2006, the Company accounted for stock-based compensation using the intrinsic value method prescribed in APB Opinion No. 25. The following pro forma information for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, respectively, reflects pro forma net income, if the Company had elected to account for employee option grants, based on their fair value, as prescribed by SFAS 123 (in thousands, except per share amounts):
 
                 
    Year Ended
 
    December 31,  
    2004     2005  
 
Net income—as reported
  $ 1,140     $ 6,284  
Deduct: stock-based compensation determined under fair value based method, net of tax
    (52 )     (407 )
                 
Net income—pro forma
  $ 1,088     $ 5,877  
                 
Net income per share—as reported:
               
Basic
  $ 0.06     $ 0.31  
Diluted
  $ 0.05     $ 0.28  
Net income per share—pro forma:
               
Basic
  $ 0.05     $ 0.29  
Diluted
  $ 0.05     $ 0.26  
 
For purposes of pro forma disclosures, the estimated fair value of the options was amortized in a straight-line method over their vesting periods.
 
                                 
    Year Ended
 
    December 31,  
    2004     2005  
          Average
          Average
 
    Options
    Fair
    Options
    Fair
 
    Granted    
Value
   
Granted
   
Value
 
 
Exercise price equal to market price of stock on grant date
    30,000     $ 0.57       989,000     $ 1.84  
 
The fair value of each option granted was estimated at the date of grant, with the following weighted average assumptions:
 
                 
    Year Ended
 
    December 31,  
    2004     2005  
 
Average risk-free interest rates
    3.5 %     4.0 %
Volatility
    80 %     80 %
Expected life (in years)
    5       5  
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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
The stock-based compensation expense charged against the results of operations after the adoption of SFAS 123(R) was as follows (in thousands):
 
                 
    Year Ended
    Nine Months Ended
 
    December 31,
    September 30,
 
   
2006
   
2007
 
          (unaudited)  
 
Stock-based compensation expense included in:
               
Content and support
  $ 14     $ 30  
Sales and marketing
    218       340  
Product development
    106       128  
General and administrative
    387       528  
                 
Total stock-based compensation expense
  $ 725     $ 1,026  
                 
 
The weighted average fair values of stock options granted after the adoption of SFAS 123(R) on January 1, 2006, were as follows:
 
                                 
    Year Ended
       
    December 31, 2006     Nine Months Ended September 30, 2007  
    Options
          Options
       
    Granted    
Average Fair Value
    Granted    
Average Fair Value
 
                (unaudited)  
 
Exercise price equal to market price of stock on grant date
    497,500     $ 2.96       997,000     $ 3.88  
 
The following assumptions were used to estimate the fair value of options granted after January 1, 2006:
 
                 
    Year Ended
    Nine Months Ended
 
    December 31,
    September 30,
 
   
2006
   
2007
 
          (unaudited)  
 
Average risk-free interest rates
    4.5% to 5.0 %     4.5% to 4.8 %
Volatility
    70 %     70 %
Expected term (in years)
    5       5  
Dividend rate
           
 
At December 31, 2006, the Company had $2.2 million of unrecognized compensation expense related to its unvested stock options and the weighted-average period over which the Company expected to recognize this expense was approximately 2.9 years. At September 30, 2007, the Company had $5.1 million of unrecognized compensation expense related to its unvested stock options, expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately 3.6 years.
 
There were no grants of restricted stock or RSUs prior to 2007 under the stock-based compensation plans. The weighted average grant fair value of restricted stock and RSU granted in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007 was $6.39. At September 30, 2007, the Company had $2.7 million of unrecognized compensation expense related to its unvested restricted stock and RSUs, expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately 2.1 years.


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
7.   Income Taxes
 
The Company provides for deferred taxes based on the difference between the basis of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the basis for income tax purposes, calculated using enacted rates that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse.
 
The provision for income taxes is composed of the following (in thousands):
 
                                         
    Year Ended
    Nine Months Ended
 
    December 31,     September 30,  
     2004       2005      2006     2006     2007  
                      (unaudited)  
 
Current:
                                       
Federal
  $  315     $ 3,457     $ 3,648     $ 3,158     $ 4,327  
State
          4       39       25       4  
                                         
Total current provision for income taxes
    315       3,461       3,687       3,183       4,331  
                                         
Deferred:
                                       
Federal
    241       (238 )     (1,039 )     (681 )     (1,238 )
State
                (1 )            
                                         
Total deferred provision for (benefit from) income taxes
    241       (238 )     (1,040 )     (681 )     (1,238 )
                                         
Provision for income taxes
  $  556     $ 3,223     $ 2,647     $ 2,502     $ 3,093  
                                         
 
Significant components of the deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows (in thousands):
 
                         
    December 31,     September 30,
 
    2005     2006     2007  
                (unaudited)  
 
Deferred tax assets:
                       
Stock-based compensation
  $     $ 242     $ 585  
Sales allowances
    34       61       85  
Deferred rent
          30       87  
Accrued expenses
    19       35       84  
Depreciation and amortization
                204  
Other tax assets
                87  
                         
Total deferred tax assets
    53       368       1,132  
                         
Deferred tax liabilities:
                       
Depreciation and amortization
    (1,218 )     (482 )      
Cash to accrual basis differences for Qwil Company, net
    (46 )     (34 )     (27 )
Other tax liabilities
          (23 )     (39 )
                         
Total deferred tax liabilities
    (1,264 )     (539 )     (66 )
                         
Net deferred tax assets (liabilities)
  $ (1,211 )   $ (171 )   $ 1,066  
                         


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
The reconciliation of the income tax provision calculated using the federal statutory rates to the recorded income tax provision is as follows (dollars in thousands):
 
                                                                                 
    Year Ended December 31,     Nine Months Ended September 30,  
    2004     2005     2006     2006     2007  
    Amount     Rate     Amount     Rate     Amount     Rate     Amount     Rate     Amount     Rate  
                                              (unaudited)        
 
Expected tax provision at federal statutory rate
  $ 577       34.0 %   $ 3,232       34.0 %   $ 2,436       34.0 %   $ 2,341       34.0 %   $ 3,229       35.0 %
State income taxes
                2             25       0.3       16       0.2       3       0.0  
Research and development credit
    (48 )     (2.8 )     (46 )     (0.4 )                             (77 )     (0.8 )
Non-deductible capital costs
                            148       2.1       148       2.1       13       0.1  
Non-deductible expenses
    12       0.7       14       0.1       23       0.3       18       0.3       14       0.2  
Other items
    15       0.9       21       0.2       15       0.2       (21 )     (0.4 )     (89 )     (1.0 )
                                                                                 
Provision for income taxes
  $ 556       32.8 %   $ 3,223       33.9 %   $ 2,647       36.9 %   $ 2,502       36.2 %   $ 3,093       33.5 %
                                                                                 
 
On January 1, 2007, the Company adopted the provisions of FASB Interpretation 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (Interpretation 48).” Previously, the Company had accounted for tax contingencies in accordance with SFAS 5, “Accounting for Contingencies.” As required by Interpretation 48, which clarifies SFAS 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes,” the Company recognizes the financial statement benefit of a tax position only after determining that the relevant tax authority would more likely than not sustain the position following an audit. For tax positions meeting the more-likely-than-not threshold, the amount recognized in the financial statements is the largest benefit that has a greater than 50 percent likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement with the relevant tax authority. At the adoption date, the Company applied Interpretation 48 to all tax positions for which the statute of limitations remained open. Based on its analysis, the Company determined that the implementation of Interpretation 48 did not have a material impact on its financial position as of January 1, 2007, or September 30, 2007. Accordingly, there was no adjustment to the balance of retained earnings as of January 1, 2007 and there were no unrecognized tax benefits as of January 1, 2007 or September 30, 2007.
 
The Company is subject to income taxes in the U.S. and various states jurisdictions. Tax regulations within each jurisdiction are subject to the interpretation of the related tax laws and regulations and require significant judgment to apply. With few exceptions, the Company is subject to U.S. and state income tax examinations by tax authorities for tax years 2003 through the present.
 
The Company does not anticipate any material changes to its recognized tax benefits over the next 12 months as a result of applying Interpretation 48. The Company recognizes interest and penalties accrued related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense and penalties in income tax expense. There was no accrued interest or penalties as of January 1, 2007 or September 30, 2007.


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
8.   Commitments
 
The Company leases office space under non-cancelable operating leases. Lease commitments include leases for the Company’s corporate headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, for its customer support office in Bothell, Washington, and other sales offices in other locations. Those leases expire between June 2008 and July 2012.
 
Since March 2007, the Company leases certain computer equipment under a capital lease.
 
Future minimum payments at September 30, 2007 under operating leases for office space and under a capital lease for computer equipment were as follows (in thousands):
 
                 
Year Ended
           
December 31,
  Operating     Capital  
    (unaudited)  
 
2007(1)
  $ 244     $ 15  
2008
    980       58  
2009
    949       58  
2010
    960       15  
2011
    949        
Thereafter
    525        
                 
    $ 4,607     $ 146  
                 
 
 
(1) The expected payments for 2007 reflect future minimum payments for the three-month period from October 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007.
 
Future minimum payments under a capital lease as of September 30, 2007 included $13,000 of imputed future interest expense.
 
Rent expense was $81,000, $154,000 and $423,000 for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. Rent expense was $270,000 and $748,000 for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, respectively.
 
In addition to the foregoing lease commitments, the Company is a party to several noncancelable and non-refundable commitments. Those purchase obligations consist of arrangements with fixed terms to acquire data that the Company uses to provide intelligence services, guaranteed minimums on certain advertising contracts, as well as future minimum payments for hosting the Company’s network operation center.
 
Future minimum payments at September 30, 2007 under the non-cancelable commitments were as follows (in thousands):
 
         
Year Ended
  September 30,
 
December 31,
 
2007
 
    (unaudited)  
 
2007(1)
  $ 761  
2008
    2,387  
2009
    855  
2010
    650  
2011
    50  
Thereafter
     
         
    $ 4,703  
         


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
 
(1) The expected payments for 2007 reflect future minimum payments for the three-month period from October 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007.
 
9. 401(k) Retirement Plan
 
Effective June 30, 2005, the Company adopted a 401(k) plan available to all employees who meet specified eligibility requirements. Eligible employees may elect to contribute up to 90% of their pre-tax gross earnings, subject to statutory limitations regarding maximum contributions. The Company also provides a matching contribution of either 4% of each participant’s gross salary per payroll period or the amount of the participant’s contribution to the plan, whichever is less. The Company’s matching contributions are fully vested at the time they are made.
 
The Company recorded matching contribution expenses in 2005 and 2006 of $21,000 and $85,000 respectively. The Company recorded matching contribution expenses of $60,000 and $112,000 for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, respectively.
 
10.   Related Parties
 
In January 2006, the Company elected as one of its directors a partner in a law firm that has provided professional services to Intelius. The Company incurred $179,000 in fees with this firm in 2006, after his appointment as a member of the Board. The Company incurred $111,000 and $313,000 with this firm in the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2006 and 2007, respectively. The amounts payable to this law firm at December 31, 2006 and at September 30, 2007 were $53,000 and $25,000, respectively.
 
11.   Acquisitions
 
Acquisition of Qwil Company in 2005
 
On August 8, 2005, the Company acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Qwil Company, a privately held provider of Internet-based advertising services. The acquisition of Qwil Company allowed Intelius to obtain direct access to, and ownership of, several domain names. It also allowed Intelius to expand its sources of revenues by adding advertising services provided through the acquired websites. Prior to the acquisition date, since May of 2003, Qwil Company provided Internet-based advertising services for Intelius on a cost-per-click basis.
 
The total consideration consisted of $2.0 million in cash and 500,000 shares of Class A Common Stock valued at $3.49 per share, for total consideration paid of $3.8 million including certain fees paid by the Company. The fair value of Intelius stock was determined based on the market approach to valuing a closely-held business interest. This approach is based on the comparison to known transactions, such as sales of private companies with similar financial and operating characteristics, and on the comparison to share pricing of relevant public companies.
 
The results of Qwil Company’s operations have been included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements since the date of acquisition.


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
The following table summarizes the estimated fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of acquisition (in thousands):
 
         
    Fair Value
 
    as of
 
   
August 8, 2005
 
 
Cash
  $ 372  
Accounts receivable
    304  
Other current assets
    3  
Property and equipment
    85  
Identifiable intangible assets
    4,245  
Goodwill
    1,059  
         
Total assets acquired
    6,068  
         
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
    152  
Deferred tax liabilities, current
    18  
Note payable to shareholder
    680  
Deferred tax liabilities, non-current
    1,431  
         
Total liabilities assumed
    2,281  
         
Net assets acquired
  $ 3,787  
         
 
The $4.2 million of acquired identifiable intangible assets is comprised of domain names registered to Qwil Company, with the estimated useful life of three years.
 
In connection with the acquisition, the Company recorded $1.4 million of deferred tax liabilities that represented the difference between the bases of assets acquired and liabilities assumed for financial reporting purposes and their basis for income tax purposes. The deferred tax liabilities arose primarily from the non-deductible basis difference for acquired domain names in the amount of $4.0 million. The goodwill recorded in this acquisition is also not deductible for tax purposes.
 
As part of the purchase agreement, the Company assumed a pre-existing debt obligation to the majority shareholder of Qwil Company in the amount of $680,000. Of that amount, $525,000 was paid in 2005 and the remaining $155,000 was paid in March 2006.
 
Acquisition of IntelliSense Corporation in 2006
 
On November 17, 2006, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets of IntelliSense Corporation, a privately-held provider of online and interactive employment screening and tenant screening services. This acquisition allowed the Company to expand its comprehensive suite of services and broaden its enterprise service offerings.
 
The total consideration consisted of $2.3 million in cash and 40,000 shares of Class A Common Stock valued at $5.44 per share, for the total consideration paid of $2.5 million, including certain legal and accounting fees paid by Intelius.
 
The results of IntelliSense’s operations have been included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements since the day of acquisition.


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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
The following table summarizes the estimated fair value of the assets acquired at the date of acquisition (in thousands):
 
         
    Fair Value
 
    as of
 
    November 17,
 
   
2006
 
 
Property and equipment
  $ 33  
Covenants not to compete
    91  
Customer relationships
    1,570  
Goodwill
    829  
         
Total assets acquired
  $ 2,523  
         
 
The amount of goodwill recorded in this acquisition is fully deductible for tax purposes.
 
At the time of acquisition, $100,000 in cash was retained by Intelius from the cash purchase consideration as payable to the stockholders. At December 31, 2006, the payable to the stockholders increased to $136,000 due to the collections received by Intelius from IntelliSense customers for pre-acquisition periods. The amount payable to the stockholders was paid in full in May 2007.
 
Of the 40,000 shares included in the purchase consideration, 20,000 shares were retained in escrow to be released to the sellers one year from the acquisition date, provided the shareholders’ employment relationship with the buyer is not terminated.
 
Pro forma results
 
The following unaudited pro forma combined historical results for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2006 are presented below as if Qwil Company and IntelliSense Corporation had been acquired on January 1, 2005 (in thousands, except per share data):
 
                 
    Year Ended
 
    December 31,  
    2005     2006  
 
Total revenues
  $ 48,430     $ 58,231  
Net income
  $ 6,542     $ 4,537  
Net income per share:
               
Basic
  $ 0.32     $ 0.22  
Diluted
  $ 0.29     $ 0.20  
 
12.   Subsequent Events (unaudited)
 
Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation
 
Conversion of Class B Common Stock
 
On November 30, 2007, the Company amended its Certificate of Incorporation to amend the ratio by which the Class B Common Stock converted into shares of Class A Common Stock.
 
As discussed in Note 6, prior to this amendment, each share of Class B Common Stock was convertible at the election of its holder into one share of Class A Common Stock.
 
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INTELIUS INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
 
consent, or agreement, of the holders of a majority of the outstanding Class B Common Stock, became convertible into 1.15 shares of Class A Common Stock.
 
All 8.1 million of the then outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock were converted into 9.3 million shares of Class A Common Stock at the time this amendment became effective on November 30, 2007.
 
With this amendment, the total number of authorized shares of Common Stock remained unchanged at 30 million shares, with all of the authorized shares of Common Stock re-designated as Class A Common Stock.
 
Increase in Number of Authorized Shares
 
On January 9, 2008, the Company amended its Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock and to change the designation of Common Stock.
 
Effective with this amendment, the designation of the shares of Common Stock of the Company that are issued and outstanding was changed from Class A Common Stock to Common Stock. At the same time, the number of authorized shares of Common Stock was increased from 30,000,000 shares to 100,000,000 shares.
 
Effective with this amendment, the number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock was increased from 3,000,000 to 11,667,500, of which 10,000,000 shares will be authorized but unissued at the time of the offering and 1,667,500 shares are the shares of Series A Preferred Stock that are currently issued and outstanding.
 
Increase in the Number of Shares Available under the 2005 Plan
 
On January 8, 2008, by the majority vote of the Company’s stockholders, the 2005 Plan was amended to authorize an additional 5,000,000 shares of Common Stock that may be issued under the 2005 Plan, for a total authorization under the 2005 Plan of 9,250,000 shares of Common Stock.


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You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide information different from that contained in this prospectus. We are offering to sell, and seeking offers to buy, shares of common stock only in jurisdictions where offers and sales are permitted. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of our common stock.
 
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Until       , 2008 (25 days after the date of this prospectus), all dealers that effect transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to the dealer’s obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as an underwriter and with respect to unsold allotments or subscriptions.
 
Intelius Inc.
 
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PART II
 
Information Not Required in Prospectus
 
Item 13.   Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution
 
The following table presents the costs and expenses, other than underwriting discounts and commissions, payable by us in connection with the sale of common stock being registered. All amounts are estimates except the SEC registration fee, FINRA filing fee and the The NASDAQ Global Market initial filing fee.
 
         
SEC registration fee
  $ 5,650  
FINRA filing fee
    14,875  
NASDAQ Global Market initial filing fee
    5,000  
Printing and engraving expenses
    *  
Legal fees and expenses
    *  
Accounting fees and expenses
    *  
Blue sky fees and expenses
    *  
Transfer agent and registrar fees and expenses
    *  
Miscellaneous
    *  
         
Total
  $ *  
         
 
 
* To be provided by amendment.
 
Item 14.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers
 
Our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions relating to the limitation of liability and indemnification of directors and officers. The restated certificate of incorporation provides that our directors will not be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability:
 
  •  for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders;
 
  •  for acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
 
  •  in respect of unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law; or
 
  •  for any transaction from which the director derives any improper personal benefit.
 
Our restated certificate of incorporation also provides that if Delaware law is amended after the approval by our stockholders of the restated certificate of incorporation to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of our directors will be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.
 
Our amended and restated bylaws provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, as it now exists or may in the future be amended, against all expenses and liabilities reasonably incurred in connection with their service for or on our behalf. Our amended and restated bylaws provide that we shall advance the expenses incurred by a director or officer in advance of the final disposition of an action or proceeding. The amended and restated bylaws also authorize us to indemnify any of our employees or agents and permit us to secure insurance on behalf of any officer, director,


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employee or agent for any liability arising out of his or her action in that capacity, whether or not Delaware law would otherwise permit indemnification.
 
We have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and executive officers and one key employee, a form of which is attached as an exhibit to this registration statement. The form of agreement provides that we will indemnify each of our directors, executive officers and such key employee against any and all expenses incurred by that director, executive officer or key employee because of his or her status as one of our directors, executive officers or key employees, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws (except in a proceeding initiated by such person without Board approval). In addition, the form of agreement provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, we will advance all expenses incurred by our directors, executive officers and such key employee in connection with a legal proceeding.
 
Reference is made to Section 8 of the underwriting agreement contained in Exhibit 1.1 to this registration statement, indemnifying our directors and officers against limited liabilities.
 
Item 15.   Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
 
Since January 1, 2005, we have issued the following securities that were not registered under the Securities Act:
 
1. In August 2005, we issued and sold 500,000 shares of Class A common stock to shareholders of Qwil Company, Inc., at a price of $3.49 per share for a total of $1,745,000 in connection with the acquisition of Qwil Company, Inc.
 
2. Between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2007, we granted options to purchase an aggregate of 2,689,100 shares of Class A common stock at exercise prices ranging from $2.65 to $      per share to employees, consultants, directors and other service providers under our 2005 Stock Plan.
 
3. Between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2007, we issued 75,884 shares of our Class A common stock upon the exercise of stock options.
 
4. Between June 15, 2007 and December 31, 2007, we issued 377,500 shares of restricted stock and restricted stock units under our 2005 Stock Plan.
 
5. In November 2006 we issued 40,000 shares of our Class A common stock as part of the consideration paid for the acquisition of the assets of IntelliSense Corporation.
 
6. In December 2007, we issued an aggregate of 9,315,000 shares of our Class A common stock in exchange for all outstanding shares of our Class B common stock, and redesignated all outstanding shares of Class A common stock as “common stock.”
 
The sale of securities described in Items 1 and 5 were deemed to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act in reliance upon Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder. The issuance of securities described in Items 2, 3 and 4 were deemed to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act in reliance upon Rule 701 promulgated under the Securities Act. The exchange of securities described in Item 6 was made in reliance on Section 3(a)(9) and Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. The recipients of securities in each transaction represented their intentions to acquire the securities for investment only and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution and appropriate legends were affixed to the stock certificates issued in these transactions. All recipients had adequate access, through their relationships with us, to information about us.


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Item 16.   Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
 
(a) Exhibits
 
         
Exhibit No.
 
Description
 
  1 .1   Form of Underwriting Agreement †
  2 .1   Asset Purchase Agreement, dated November 17, 2006, among IntelliSense LLC, Intelius Inc. and IntelliSense Corporation
  2 .2   Merger Agreement, dated August 5, 2005, among Intelius Inc., Qwil Acquisitions, Inc., Qwil Company, Inc., and the shareholders of Qwil Company, Inc.
  3 .1   Certificate of Incorporation and all amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation to date
  3 .2   Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be in effect upon the completion of this offering
  3 .3   Bylaws
  3 .4   Form of Bylaws to be in effect upon the completion of this offering
  4 .1   Specimen common stock certificate †
  5 .1   Opinion of Karr Tuttle Campbell PS †
  10 .1   Form of indemnification agreement
  10 .2   Form of stock option agreement for stock options granted prior to 2005
  10 .3   Intelius Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan and forms of agreements for options, restricted stock awards and restricted stock units.
  10 .4   Description of director compensation
  10 .5   Executive and Senior Management Incentive Plan
  10 .6   Employment offer letter for Paul T. Cook, dated February 1, 2007
  10 .7   Employment offer letter for William H. Beaver, dated March 31, 2005
  10 .8   Employment offer letter for William R. Kerr, dated June 25, 2007
  10 .9   Directory Services Agreement, dated April 27, 2007, with Yellow Book USA, Inc. ‡
  10 .10   Marketing Agreement, dated July 10, 2007, with Adaptive Marketing LLC and addenda thereto ‡
  10 .11   Office Lease Agreement with WA-City Center Bellevue, L.L.C., dated February 24, 2006 and amendment thereto
  10 .12   Office Lease Agreement with WA-City Center Bellevue, L.L.C., dated February 9, 2004 and amendment thereto
  21 .1   Subsidiaries of the Registrant
  23 .1   Consent of Karr Tuttle Campbell PS (contained in Exhibit 5.1) †
  23 .2   Consent of BDO Seidman, LLP
  24 .1   Powers of Attorney (included on signature page of this Registration Statement)
  99 .1   Consent of comScore, Inc.
  99 .2   Consent of Mercer
  99 .3   Consent of eMarketer Inc.
  99 .4   Consent of IDC
 
 
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(b) Financial Statement Schedules
 
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
Board of Directors and Stockholders
Intelius Inc
Bellevue, WA
 
The audit referred to in our report to Intelius Inc, dated March 20, 2007, which is contained in the prospectus constituting part of this registration statement, included the audit of the schedule listed under this Item 16(b) for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2006. These financial statement schedules are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on this financial statement schedule based upon our audits.
 
In our opinion, such schedules present fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
 
/s/ BDO Seidman, LLP
 
Seattle, WA
March 20, 2007
 
The following schedule is filed as part of this registration statement:
 
The Financial Statement Schedule II—Valuation and Qualifying Accounts
 
                                 
    Balance at
          Charges
    Balance at
 
    Beginning
    Charged to
    Utilized/
    End of
 
    of Period     Net Income     Write-offs     Period  
 
Allowance for uncollectible accounts
                               
Year ended December 31, 2004
  $     $     $     $  
Year ended December 31, 2005
                       
Year ended December 31, 2006
          91       (31 )     60  
Nine months ended September 30, 2007 (unaudited)
    60       100       (50 )     110  
                                 
Allowance for returns
                               
Year ended December 31, 2004
  $ 41     $ 1,136     $ (1,102 )   $ 81  
Year ended December 31, 2005
    81       1,323       (1,304 )     100  
Year ended December 31, 2006
    100       1,645       (1,625 )     120  
Nine months ended September 30, 2007 (unaudited)
    120       1,216       (1,093 )     243  
 
Item 17.   Undertakings
 
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriter at the closing specified in the underwriting agreement certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriter to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.
 
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling


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person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
 
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:
 
1. For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.
 
2. For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.


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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Bellevue, State of Washington, on this 10th day of January, 2008.
 
Intelius Inc.
 
  By: 
/s/  Naveen K. Jain
Naveen K. Jain
Chief Executive Officer and President
 
POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each individual whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Naveen K. Jain and Paul T. Cook, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and to sign any registration statement for the same offering covered by this registration statement that is to be effective on filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all post-effective amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his or her or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
 
             
Signature
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Naveen K. Jain

Naveen K. Jain
  Chief Executive Officer and President (principal executive officer) and Director   January 10, 2008
         
/s/  Paul T. Cook

Paul T. Cook
  Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer)   January 10, 2008
         
/s/  Irina Z. Leversee

Irina Z. Leversee
  Controller (principal accounting officer)   January 10, 2008
         
/s/  William A. Owens

William A. Owens
  Chairman of the Board of Directors   January 10, 2008
         
/s/  Arthur W. Harrigan, Jr.

Arthur W. Harrigan, Jr.
  Director   January 10, 2008
         
/s/  William R. Kerr

William R. Kerr
  Director   January 10, 2008


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Signature
 
Title
 
Date
 
         
/s/  Chris A. Kitze

Chris A. Kitze
  Director   January 10, 2008
         
/s/  Peter W. Currie

Peter W. Currie
  Director   January 10, 2008


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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
 
         
Exhibit No.
 
Description
 
  1 .1   Form of Underwriting Agreement †
  2 .1   Asset Purchase Agreement, dated November 17, 2006, among IntelliSense LLC, Intelius Inc. and IntelliSense Corporation
  2 .2   Merger Agreement, dated August 5, 2005, among Intelius Inc., Qwil Acquisitions, Inc., Qwil Company, Inc., and the shareholders of Qwil Company, Inc.
  3 .1   Certificate of Incorporation and all amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation to date
  3 .2   Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be in effect upon the completion of this offering
  3 .3   Bylaws
  3 .4   Form of Bylaws to be in effect upon the completion of this offering
  4 .1   Specimen common stock certificate †
  5 .1   Opinion of Karr Tuttle Campbell PS †
  10 .1   Form of indemnification agreement
  10 .2   Form of stock option agreement for stock options granted prior to 2005
  10 .3   Intelius Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan and forms of agreements for options, restricted stock awards and restricted stock units.
  10 .4   Description of director compensation
  10 .5   Executive and Senior Management Incentive Plan
  10 .6   Employment offer letter for Paul T. Cook, dated February 1, 2007
  10 .7   Employment offer letter for William H. Beaver, dated March 31, 2005
  10 .8   Employment offer letter for William R. Kerr, dated June 25, 2007
  10 .9   Directory Services Agreement, dated April 27, 2007, with Yellow Book USA, Inc. ‡
  10 .10   Marketing Agreement, dated July 10, 2007, with Adaptive Marketing LLC and addenda thereto ‡
  10 .11   Office Lease Agreement with WA-City Center Bellevue, L.L.C., dated February 24, 2006 and amendment thereto
  10 .12   Office Lease Agreement with WA-City Center Bellevue, L.L.C., dated February 9, 2004 and amendment thereto
  21 .1   Subsidiaries of the Registrant
  23 .1   Consent of Karr Tuttle Campbell PS (contained in Exhibit 5.1) †
  23 .2   Consent of BDO Seidman, LLP
  24 .1   Powers of Attorney (included on signature page of this Registration Statement)
  99 .1   Consent of comScore, Inc.
  99 .2   Consent of Mercer
  99 .3   Consent of eMarketer Inc.
  99 .4   Consent of IDC
 
 
To be filed by amendment.
 
Confidential treatment requested.