This 26-Year Old Box.net Founder Is Raising $100 Million To Take On Giants Like Microsoft - 0 views
www.businessinsider.com/lion-to-slay-the-giants-2011-8
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Within the enterprise, if you compare Box to something like IBM Filenet, or Microsoft SharePoint, you get almost a 10x improvement on productivity, speed, time to market for new products. So we saw an opportunity to create real innovation in that space and that's what got us excited
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We think the market for enterprise collaboration will be much larger than the market for checking into locations on your phone."
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What you saw with the suite product from Microsoft [Office 365], they're trying to bundle ERP, CRM, collaboration, e-mail, and communication all as one package.
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If you go to the average company in America, that's not what they've implemented. They've implemented Salesforce as their CRM, Google Apps for email -- a large number of them, in the millions -- they'll be thinking of Workday or NetSuite for their ERP.
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Good interview but i'm looking for ways to short Box.net. I left lots of sticky notes and highlights on this page - all of which are under the Visual Document list since i didn't have a Cloud Productivity list going. I spend quite a bit of time studying Box.net, DropBox and a ton of other early Cloud sync-share-store operations while doing research for the Sursen SurDocs product. Also MS-Live/Office/SkyDrive and Google Docs Collaboration. No one has a good bead on a Cloud Productivity Platform yet. But Microsoft and Google clearly know what the game is. They even have a plan on how to get there. Box.net, on the other hand is totally clueless. What are these investors thinking?