Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

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. Biggest lessons ….

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

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

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook). Everything). 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”.

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The Next Web

MAY 12, 2013

Xeround was founded in 2005 by Sharon Barkai – founder of Sheer networks, which was eventually sold to Cisco , and Dr. Gilad Zlotkin – founder of Class Data, also sold to Cisco. Sales cycles were long and unpredictable. What happens when you over-pivot. Xeround was out of their element.” a source close to Xeround told Newsgeek.

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