"We are a disruptor, " John Kunze, Xoom's chief executive, told The Wall Street Journal.

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Kunze has 25 of his 328 employees assigned to making sure clients get what they need on time.

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But Axona, which as been on the market since 2009, might keep healthy brain cells alive longer, says Chief Executive Holger Kunze.

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At the same time that his company started trading on Nasdaq--11:15 a.m. on June 4--John Kunze wasn't popping open champagne around any trading terminal.

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By January Kunze decided he had to try going public again.

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Smaller packs appear to be boosting consumption of hummus, "not a staple of the American diet, " says Ken Kunze, chief marketing officer for Sabra Dipping Co.

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The food is intended to be used with medication and under doctors' care, and only by patients who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, says Mr. Kunze.

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Mr. Kunze said the firm's "road show" marketing efforts met strong demand from investors in small-capitalization stocks who have an interest both in technology and financial sectors.

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"Every day our viability is questioned, " says Kunze, 39, who joined the San Francisco-based firm in 1998, a year after its founding, following a 13-year tour of duty at Adobe.

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Creating new standards of performance, based on how long it takes staffers to resolve a problem over the phone, Kunze in 2001 extended the California and U.K. help desks to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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