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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering. At Packeteer, they built a hardware-based appliance that was expensive and complex to manage.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook). Everything).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook). Everything). Everything).

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Delivering software as a service

BeyondVC

As you know, I have always been interested in this trend since my first post in October 2003 and since I invested in a number of companies in 1998 and 1999 like LivePerson and Expertcity (GoToMyPC) that subscribed to the ASP business model. For the vendor, it makes it: 1.