Salesforce Content

April 9th, 2007

By Mark Suster
Many people asked me over the past couple of months why we’ve been a bit quiet lately and I am proud and excited to be able to reveal today the reason why we have kept a low public profile lately. At midnight EDT in the US we announced that we have been […]

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8 out of 10 Document Collaboration Providers bail out when forced to use their own product

February 11th, 2007

by Tim Barker
I’ve been reading my way through the recently published Butler Group Research on the Document Collaboration market. Butler have classified this sub-segment of the Enterprise Content Management space as an emerging high-growth area. They cover offerings from a number of existing ECM players (EMC, OpenText, IBM), established players like Microsoft (with SharePoint and […]

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Paparazzi Post

January 15th, 2007

By Mark Suster
Non Sequitur. So I never imagined that I would be writing a post about Yoko Ono. And were it not for one Koral Karsan I am sure that I never would have.
Mr. Karsan, a native of Turkey, is the self described, “driver, bodyguard, assistant, butler, nurse, handyman and more so … lover […]

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How do you rate?

January 11th, 2007

By Mark Suster
So we’re now well into planning out our next 2 releases and we revisited an old debate that we had 6 months ago. It is one of those bittersweet victories where I won the argument partially through debate and partially through brute force. Within days of our release going live I knew […]

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Open Source Flu

December 23rd, 2006

By Mark Suster

It’s 8:00PM in the evening and I’m sitting in the reception of the Nighttime Pediatric clinic of Annapolis, Maryland. My wife doesn’t know that I’m here and I can’t bear to tell her. We were here earlier in the week with our two kids who both have the flu and came […]

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Retiring the Company Librarian

December 21st, 2006

By Mark Suster
I’ve been involved with knowledge management and content management systems for the past 12 years using, installing and monitoring them both as an outside consultant and as an On Demand software vendor.
As a consultant at Accenture in the 90’s I remember the frustration of trying to figure out where in our Lotus Notes […]

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Koral Upgraded

December 19th, 2006

by Tim Barker
If you’ve logged into Koral in the last few days you’ll have noticed that we rolled out a pretty major upgrade to Koral at the weekend. Kudos to the team for releasing on time (typically, it always seems to work out that you have to do a release over the Holidays). Here’s a run-down […]

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Jerry Maguire Moment

December 5th, 2006

By Mark Suster

Doh! Last Saturday night I sat down to write a blog entry on my experiences in the venture capital fund raising process. I told an anecdote about a less than pleasant experience, which I know that many of my peers have experienced - my Jerry Maguire moment. In my […]

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Robert Scoble Vidcast of Koral

December 4th, 2006

by Tim Barker
We recently had the pleasure of meeting Robert Scoble of PodTech.net. Plus, thanks to Salesforce.com for lending us a room for the meeting. Here’s are the links to the videos:
Content collaboration for enterprises with Koral’s Mark Suster

Click Here to Watch [22:29]
We met up with Koral’s CEO, Mark Suster and talk about content management […]

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Venture Capital

December 3rd, 2006

By Mark Suster
Can it really be a month since my last blog posting? Tempus Fugit. Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions […]

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