Under The Radar: Graduate Circle

Rafe Needleman moderating, Robert Scoble, Jas Dhillon,

Blogtronics

Vassily Mladjov, CEO

Growing fast, last year’s big secret deal was Reuters. Very grand plans, seems to be displacing Sharepoint mostly.

Clarizen

Avinoam Nowogrodski

Is giving a start up pitch rather than a status update. ‘First collaborative project execution environment.’ Ouch! Makes my jaws ache to say that.

I hate the reliance on email.

Announces v2.0.

Longjump

Pankaj Malviya

Targetting business managers with a lightweight workflow app, based on business data.

Looking at $2M revenue in 2008.

Smartsheet

Mark Mader

Sharing lists of work.

Won best of show last year, but customers have hit snags.

Decided to surrender to the doc/email world.

Simplification of the earlier cocepts is current focus. ‘Try us in June, again.’

Conclusions

Scoble makes case for simplicity. Suggests a ten second rule: has to be obvious.

Rafe ‘When I tried Smartsheet I was angry not confused.’

Is it a bad time for these startups, Rafe wonders?

Take euros, pay in dollars.

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