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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Myspace, Facebook). 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. Everything). 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

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

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