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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

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Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public?

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PowerViews with Craig Rosenberg: Growth Hacks & Consumerized B2B Software

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He helped build Salesforce.com with an outbound marketing perspective into the mid-market. And they say, ‘Oh, I’m doing a great job, I’ve got Eloqua.’ The people we always talk about are the HubSpots and the Marketos and the Eloquas of the world who are driving leads. I live in the marketing side, so I talk to these marketers.

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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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He comments, “Salesforce.com is a good example. On the marketing side, companies like Eloqua, Marketo, Pardot, Silverpop and HubSpot are adding features that are nudging them closer to the sales side. They’re doing what a lot of the marketing automation platforms have been doing.

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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He comments, “Salesforce.com is a good example. On the marketing side, companies like Eloqua, Marketo, Pardot, Silverpop and HubSpot are adding features that are nudging them closer to the sales side. They’re doing what a lot of the marketing automation platforms have been doing.