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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

It quickly became impossible to raise venture capital. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. It isn’t even a story about raising venture capital or M&A. If you remember your history the market crashed the next week. Any deal. Things change.