VentureBeat - Latest Comments in Xobni raises $7M to battle Outlook’s email overload

Re: Xobni raises $7M to battle Outlook’s email overload

Carol Shorthurst — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:43:17 -0000

i have to use outlook for work, bacause i get a great amount of e-mails everyday! So i tried xnobi but i wasnt very satistfied with it, because it slowed my outlook really down, so i tried another tool called lookeen and that works really fine! its like lookout only that it works on vista and outlook 2007 to!
http://www.lookeen.com

Re: Xobni raises $7M to battle Outlook’s email overload

skeptic — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:06:20 -0000

a lot of people will move into this space (www.gist.com) but i'm still not sure i see a clear business model (welcome to the internet)

Re: Xobni raises $7M to battle Outlook’s email overload

DaTruff — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:11:50 -0000

1.) I deleted Xobni when I realized that my Outlook performance had significantly deteriorated since installing Xobni. Once it was gone, regular performance levels returned. 2.) the only people that use Outlook are people that are required to use it for work. Every other person in the world uses a web-based browser or Thunderbird.

Should have taken the $20M and run...

Re: Xobni raises $7M to battle Outlook’s email overload

Foo — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:09:45 -0000

Bernie Madoff moto comes to mind here ..."good money before bad."

What is the revenue model exactly? It would seem users don't need yet another interloper in their inbox.

The question is do users value the utility enough to pay for it. Corporate users are often restricted from installing such things on corporate mail clients. The valuation msft placed on the IP is telling. It was just enough to get the dev team, payoff the vcs, and get the user population. However, who knows. If msft lays off the office team then msft might have choice than to pay more.

Don't count on it.

Re: Xobni raises $7M to battle Outlook’s email overload

WTF — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:51:14 -0000

What a shame. If true the company was offered to be acquired for $20M last year by Microsoft and declined it will go down as a huge blunder. Taking in another $7M on top of the $4m just made the exit much more difficult considering the increased competition in the space. Greed kills!