Comments on: Xobni Closes $7 Million B Round Led By Cisco http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:13:56 -0800 hourly 1 By: Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | iPhone Topic|TechBeta http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-2/#comment-2800778 Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | iPhone Topic|TechBeta Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:44:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2800778 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought the sum B round up to $10 million, as well as already it has the operative antecedent for an arriving Blackberry [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought the sum B round up to $10 million, as well as already it has the operative antecedent for an arriving Blackberry [...]

]]> By: Xobni Coming To The Black (Leaked Pic) | Viningmedia Nieuws http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-2/#comment-2725871 Xobni Coming To The Black (Leaked Pic) | Viningmedia Nieuws Fri, 01 May 2009 12:04:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2725871 [...] opstarten email Xobni heeft een investering van de BlackBerry Partners Fund, waardoor zijn totale B ronde maximaal $ 10 miljoen, en zij heeft al een werkend prototype voor een aanstaande Blackberry app. [...] [...] opstarten email Xobni heeft een investering van de BlackBerry Partners Fund, waardoor zijn totale B ronde maximaal $ 10 miljoen, en zij heeft al een werkend prototype voor een aanstaande Blackberry app. [...]

]]> By: Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) « Kentmihlbauer’s Blog http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2725406 Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) « Kentmihlbauer’s Blog Fri, 01 May 2009 03:42:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2725406 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...]

]]> By: Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | The Good NET Guide http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2725402 Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | The Good NET Guide Fri, 01 May 2009 03:40:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2725402 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...]

]]> By: Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | Wilsonbroadcast http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2725271 Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | Wilsonbroadcast Fri, 01 May 2009 02:18:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2725271 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...]

]]> By: Xobni Coming To The Blackberry | Blog YODspica Ltd http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2725070 Xobni Coming To The Blackberry | Blog YODspica Ltd Fri, 01 May 2009 00:33:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2725070 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app.  [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app.  [...]

]]> By: Trade Jim News » Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2724957 Trade Jim News » Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:28:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2724957 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...]

]]> By: Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) » YoGoG.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2724953 Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) » YoGoG.com Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:25:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2724953 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...]

]]> By: Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) » YoGoG.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2724952 Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) » YoGoG.com Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:25:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2724952 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...]

]]> By: Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | UpOff.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2724948 Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | UpOff.com Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:22:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2724948 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...]

]]> By: Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | Stoth http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2724906 Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | Stoth Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:02:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2724906 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...]

]]> By: Techeroid » Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2724902 Techeroid » Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:01:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2724902 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...]

]]> By: Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2724881 Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:48:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2724881 [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...] [...] email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni [...]

]]> By: Xobni exits beta and closes on $10m funding | PSU Startups http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2673479 Xobni exits beta and closes on $10m funding | PSU Startups Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:54:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2673479 [...] its Series B round of funding, increasing the total raised to $10 million. (Xobni had previously announced $7 million in funding in the Series B round led by [...] [...] its Series B round of funding, increasing the total raised to $10 million. (Xobni had previously announced $7 million in funding in the Series B round led by [...]

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]]> By: CJW http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2638744 CJW Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:53:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2638744 Xobni aint bad! Outlook Track-It (google it!) is also a great plugin for Outlook in that it flags emails for a followup reminder. Xobni aint bad! Outlook Track-It (google it!) is also a great plugin for Outlook in that it flags emails for a followup reminder.

]]> By: Xobni obtiene 7M en Serie B http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2587447 Xobni obtiene 7M en Serie B Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:34:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2587447 [...] una compañía que presta servicios de correo electrónico ha recibido una ronda de financiación Serie B de 7 millones de dólares por parte de Cisco Systems y los inversores existentes Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline [...] [...] una compañía que presta servicios de correo electrónico ha recibido una ronda de financiación Serie B de 7 millones de dólares por parte de Cisco Systems y los inversores existentes Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline [...]

]]> By: hua http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2586621 hua Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:12:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2586621 i <3 xobni :) i <3 xobni :)

]]> By: Andrew Holt http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2586489 Andrew Holt Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:03:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2586489 To counter some of the previous posts, Xobni is more than just an Outlook plugin. Xobni is a platform, which currently only uses their own functionality to enhance Outlook, with the recent addition of some third party functionality (Yahoo! Mail, etc.). Their pitch is likely the expandability and potential of tightly integrating other enterprise applications with Outlook (like a CRM system). Given the size of the enterprise market, I can easily see investors getting excited over this (although CRM in Outlook might not be a real use case for anyone). That said, I haven't used Xobni. I use Google for your Domain for our startup, and at past companies when I've used Outlook, I'd be wary of downloading anything that poses any privacy or performance risks whatsoever. Unless the IT department deploys a site license (revenue model, by the way), I wouldn't be using it in a corporate environment. Additionally, it's been mentioned that MSFT could clone the functionality and kill their market. Unless they have strategic partnerships in place before that happens, with major corporate players like SalesForce, they might be in trouble. I'm sure they're planning their strategy accordingly, however. To counter some of the previous posts, Xobni is more than just an Outlook plugin. Xobni is a platform, which currently only uses their own functionality to enhance Outlook, with the recent addition of some third party functionality (Yahoo! Mail, etc.). Their pitch is likely the expandability and potential of tightly integrating other enterprise applications with Outlook (like a CRM system). Given the size of the enterprise market, I can easily see investors getting excited over this (although CRM in Outlook might not be a real use case for anyone).

That said, I haven’t used Xobni. I use Google for your Domain for our startup, and at past companies when I’ve used Outlook, I’d be wary of downloading anything that poses any privacy or performance risks whatsoever. Unless the IT department deploys a site license (revenue model, by the way), I wouldn’t be using it in a corporate environment.

Additionally, it’s been mentioned that MSFT could clone the functionality and kill their market. Unless they have strategic partnerships in place before that happens, with major corporate players like SalesForce, they might be in trouble. I’m sure they’re planning their strategy accordingly, however.

]]> By: Angus http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2586342 Angus Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:29:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2586342 Great news for Xobni. hopefully they'll invest some of that in ensuring the app doesn't chugg 100% cpu... It is a great product, if you don't mind waiting ages for outlook to unlock every time it does anything. If they sorted that I would reinstall - I really like the look of the new linkedin hooks. angus Great news for Xobni.

hopefully they’ll invest some of that in ensuring the app doesn’t chugg 100% cpu…

It is a great product, if you don’t mind waiting ages for outlook to unlock every time it does anything.

If they sorted that I would reinstall – I really like the look of the new linkedin hooks.

angus

]]> By: Daves http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2586271 Daves Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:35:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2586271 Have all these VCs tried the product they invested in? If they did, I doubt they'd invested. Have all these VCs tried the product they invested in? If they did, I doubt they’d invested.

]]> By: Gerben http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2586240 Gerben Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:35:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2586240 Great news, i've been using Xobni for over a year now and it's a pleasure to use, really...could be improved a bit, so i hope this money will shine a new light on the updates? Great news, i’ve been using Xobni for over a year now and it’s a pleasure to use, really…could be improved a bit, so i hope this money will shine a new light on the updates?

]]> By: Xobni erhält Finanzierung, Business Plan-Wettbewerb CyberOne, Online-Dating-Portale, Venture Capital-Branche, Facebook bald kostenpflicht? | Seedfinance http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2586207 Xobni erhält Finanzierung, Business Plan-Wettbewerb CyberOne, Online-Dating-Portale, Venture Capital-Branche, Facebook bald kostenpflicht? | Seedfinance Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:46:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2586207 [...] zu begeistern, deutlich näher gekommen sein. Die Gewinnung von Unternehmenskunden ist für Xobni extrem wichtig, da in diesem Bereich letztlich Geld verdient [...] [...] zu begeistern, deutlich näher gekommen sein. Die Gewinnung von Unternehmenskunden ist für Xobni extrem wichtig, da in diesem Bereich letztlich Geld verdient [...]

]]> By: Yoohoo http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2586204 Yoohoo Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:43:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2586204 @Voodoo: Jeff Bonforte was (let go/left on his own) from Yahoo in February 2007. Search around in the archives and you'll find strong opinions about him floating around. @Voodoo: Jeff Bonforte was (let go/left on his own) from Yahoo in February 2007. Search around in the archives and you’ll find strong opinions about him floating around.

]]> By: Voodoo http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/xobni-closes-7-million-b-round-led-by-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-2586170 Voodoo Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:52:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=36194#comment-2586170 Jeff bonforte? So what exactly is this guy's background other than ostensibly leading funding rounds for failed gimmicky dotbombs? Yet Another self promoting charasmatic charlatan that vcs can hide behind if they are revealed to have been utterly careless with LPs money. What a pity when one's desire exceeds one's talent, eh? As Lenin said, useful idiots serve a purpose for the cynical manipulators. I would have expected more due diligence from vinod khosla. Jeff bonforte? So what exactly is this guy’s background other than ostensibly leading funding rounds for failed gimmicky dotbombs?

Yet Another self promoting charasmatic charlatan that vcs can hide behind if they are revealed to have been utterly careless with LPs money.

What a pity when one’s desire exceeds one’s talent, eh? As Lenin said, useful idiots serve a purpose for the cynical manipulators. I would have expected more due diligence from vinod khosla.

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