Much will be said over the next few days about HubSpot’s $32M Series D round.  The pattern of conversations will look something like this: First there will be a burst of emotion (observers will shout congratulations from the rooftops and laud HubSpot for attracting Google Ventures and Salesforce.com as investors).  Second there’ll be a wave of sober dialogue about what this investment means for HubSpot’s business.  should note that Eloqua serves a very different market than HubSpot. HubSpot is going big – on small business. by Joe Payne | Tweet this. MORE >>

Salesforce.com 's acquisition of Radian6 yesterday was quite the news yesterday. This was especially interesting following their recent investments in Hubspot and Seesmic and the acquisition of Jigsaw last year. The question is : Why did Salesforce.com acquire Radian6 ? With Hubspot's lead generation and engagement platform, Salesforce.com needed capabilities on the Social media side and Radian6 fills these gaps. This enables Salesforce.com to extend its developer and partner ecosystem with technology not available anywhere else. MORE >>

Summary: HubSpot has continued to grow its customer base and expand its product. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs. The company began with search engine optimization to attract traffic, and added landing pages, blogging, Web hosting, lead scoring, and Salesforce.com integration. Since my July 2009 review , HubSpot has further extended the system to include social media monitoring and sharing, limited list segmentation and simple drip marketing campaigns. MORE >>

If you know anything about HubSpot, you know that we spend the majority of our time using inbound marketing to attract YOU to us, so we can limit the number of annoying cold calls, junk mail and automated-spammy emails in the world. The result of that extreme focus is that we get more web traffic than Salesforce.com (a multi-billion dollar company) and are the fastest growing marketing software company by far. But, we also decided recently to spend some time making a short, fun, animated answer to the question "What is HubSpot?". What is HubSpot? How did we do? MORE >>

Today @HubSpot acquired @oneforty, a social media marketing company based in Cambridge, MA. Like @HubSpot, @oneforty recognizes the importance of social media in the transformation of marketing. The @oneforty directory will merge into the @HubSpot App Marketplace, the largest app store for marketing. Features from the @oneforty product SocialBase will be incorporated into the @HubSpot product. This acquisition of @oneforty comes just two months after @HubSpot acquired @Performable. The acquisition of @oneforty will grow the team at @HubSpot to 285 people. MORE >>