LiveLoop
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
LiveLoop was a five-person San Francisco startup founded in 2010 (founder Amal Dorai) that built a web service letting people share PowerPoint presentations without forcing viewers to download software — real-time collaboration inside Office documents, as an alternative to Join.me, GoToMeeting and WebEx. It presented at the DEMO conference in fall 2011; investors included Maynard Webb, Michael Neril and Eric Chen of Uj Ventures.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Founded in San Francisco in 2010 by Amal Dorai; presented at the DEMO conference in fall 2011.
- Acquired by Microsoft
In March 2015 Microsoft acquired LiveLoop (terms undisclosed) as part of its strategy to 'reinvent productivity', bringing the team's real-time collaboration technology into Office. The standalone LiveLoop service shut down on April 24, 2015.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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