RelateIQ is cool. I'm little surprised that they "gave up" so easily :-).<p>Regarding the exit, I would appreciate if somebody more experienced can give example how much is this for 1st employee. The sold company for $360. First employee probably got ~2% of stock options. They received $69 of investment and there was some dilution.
Salesforce has been getting hammered on their lack of true analytics since the last Dreamforce. They have positioned their new SF1 dashboards as analytics, but anybody who knows better, knows that these are not analytics tools but visualization tools.<p>I'm guessing RelateIQ was a way for them to calm the industry influencers down, and give them a head start in plugging a significant hole they have had when being compared to the legacy stack vendors.
i'm genuinely curious what people liked about relateiq... when i looked into it, it seemed like a much less functional salesforce with the addition of automatically showing you the last contact you had with a customer (or potential customer).<p>what made it interesting/differentiated as a product?
Well that was fast.<p>The recent early-stage-company acquisitions are an interesting change in the business world. The other, in my opinion, is the move to hold off on IPO until later stages. It seems the opportunity to invest in growth is getting squeezed from both ends.
Seems like salesforce game up on organic growth strategy long time ago. Just a lot of acquisitions. Once you become their scale, I guess it becomes impossible to innovate. Whatever works for them I guess.
I think RelateIQ has a really good product and I honestly thought they will become a multi billion dollar company. Its a little sad to see that enterprise startups with great products are having a much lower valuation than consumer startups.