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Do.com was a venture in the productivity space, specifically designed to enhance the efficiency of business meetings. The company was founded in 2013 by Jason Shah and was incubated at SherpaFoundry, where Shah was an Entrepreneur in Residence. Before creating Do.com, Shah had prior entrepreneurial experience with a company called INeedAPencil.com and had also worked at Yammer.

The core offering of Do.com was a cloud-based platform that enabled users to organize and manage their meetings online. The service provided a centralized dashboard to prepare for meetings, create agendas, and keep a record of discussions and decisions. This was intended to help teams maintain clarity on action items and upcoming events, thereby aiming to resolve the common issue of unproductive meetings. The platform's business model focused on small groups and businesses, providing tools to facilitate better collaboration and decision-making.

Do.com launched with an initial funding of $400,000 and eventually raised a total of $2.4 million from various investors. The startup operated from its headquarters in San Francisco, California. However, the journey of Do.com as an independent entity was relatively short-lived. In 2014, just a year after its founding, Salesforce discontinued the service. The context of this decision is linked to Salesforce's broader strategy of acquiring and integrating various cloud-based applications into its comprehensive suite of enterprise services.

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