Under The Radar: Manage Up

Moderated by Jeremy Toeman, with Kara Swisher, Stephen Stribley, and Prashad Shah.

Act-on

Raghu Raghavan

SaaS

An inductive business plan, decided to build a webinar service around Webex.Handles workflow,follow up, and analysis. Integrates into sales.

Backed by Cisco. Integrates into Salesforce and Outlook.

‘It’s just an aggregation of other stuff. Is it defensible?’ Kara asks.

Seems like the angle will be Cisco sales team.

‘Seems a little Ginzu Knife-ish’ wonders Prasad.

I am on the fence.

Magento

Open source ecommerce platform. Yawn.

225K downloads since mid 2007.

Nothing about social commerce.

I don’t know enough to get it. So many moving parts.

He argues that the market is stagnant. Who are the competitors? Yahoo and ATG. eBay and Amazon come to mind.

I vote no.

Mumboe

Business agreements management.

Sounds like Echosign.

A secure repository for online docs. Yawn.

Integrated with Outlook?

Kara pokes fun at the name, since mumbo-jumbo is bad.

I asked and he seems to be completely unawre of Echosign.

I vote no.

NetBooks

Ridgely Evers.One of the founders of quickbooks. Taking a run at it again.

Target: small business owner.

$200/mo 5 users, ties together finance, operations, sales, marketing.

How to market? Big thing will be partnerships, like SCORE, credit card companies, banks,etc.

They are making the transition from quickbooks easy, and attractive for owners.

Looking at a discounted first year product for startups. Will be bringing out a POS solution and integrated ecommerce.

I vote yes.

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