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The Pond Just Got More Crowded: Google, Salesforce.com and Sequoia Invest in HubSpot

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It followed $33 million in earlier funding since the company was founded in 2006. It’s selling to small and mid-size companies and business-to-business marketers, who are just dipping their toes into marketing automation. But HubSpot plays in a different pond, where the frogs are more numerous and much livelier.

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SalesFusion Combines Online and Offline Marketing with CRM

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This one-stop-shopping will be most attractive to small and mid-size companies, although I expect that larger firms will eventually want it too. Multiple scores are particularly important at large companies where contacts need to be treated differently for different products, regions and other variables.

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Hubspot Offers Small Business Marketers a Big Bundle of Features

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But I don’t think that can scale: companies require many different services and will not want to buy and run each one separately. All that’s missing to be full-blown demand generation system is outbound email and lead nurturing campaigns—which the company has announced it will add. But I consider that optional.)