October 4th, 2012

Nimble Now Integrates With Rapportive, Major Social Networks To Bring Context To Your Contacts

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As Jon Ferrara what he thinks of today’s CRM software, and he’ll tell you, patently, that it sucks. Ferrara is the co-founder and former CEO of GoldMine, one of the pioneers of customer relationship management and salesforce automation software back in the ’90s. He sold GoldMine in the ’00s for $100+ million, but returned to the game in 2009 based on the belief that CRM was still broken.

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February 14th, 2012

Nimble 2.0 Looks To Give SMBs A CRM Platform That Actually Does Social Right

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There are few aspects of growing a business that are easy. But when you think about the big picture, one of the most significant challenges — besides hiring attractive, productive interns — is customer acquisition. Not every business scales like Facebook; many have to fight tooth-and-nail for every client, sell their firstborn, do whatever it takes. And once those customers are on board, the… → Read More

January 4th, 2012

Google Ventures, Mark Cuban And Others Invest $1M In Social CRM Startup Nimble

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Customer relationship management startup Nimble has raised $1 million in funding from notable investors Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, Dharmesh Shah and more!

Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara views Nimble as a combination Hootsuite, Yammer and Salesforce. Unlike CRM tools like Salesforce, which Ferrara equates to stagnant databases of customers, Nimble takes into account that today’s… → Read More

March 1st, 2011

DEMO 2011 Roundup: The Eight Best Startups of Day 1

The DEMO Spring 2011 conference kicked off yesterday in Palm Springs, featuring 27 startups in the consumer, enterprise, and cloud sectors. Each company was allowed six minutes to make their presentation and try to wow the audience with their product launches.

Some let their products do the talking, while others added humor to their pitches. For example, Dr. Shamus Husheer, inventor of the… → Read More