• By Nicholas Carlson
    Jan 25, 2008 5:20 PM 1,268
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    The three moneybags to pitch at Demo

    CashMoney.jpgAnother Demo is coming up this January 28-30. Smart startup founders will save their best pitches not for the bored audience — trust us, they'll all be ignoring you and sending BlackBerry emails. Instead, buttonhole the guys with money to spend, starting with reps from Google, Microsoft and Cisco. Here's who they're sending.

    Name: Mark Arnold
    Company: Cisco Systems
    What he's shopping for:: Last year, Cisco Systems said it wants to acquire additional "Web. 2.0" technologies to help push the "consumerization of the enterprise."

    KarenRoterDavis.jpgName: Karen Davis
    Company: Google
    What she's shopping for:: Everything and anything. Fortune notes Google has acquired nearly three dozen companies in the last three years. Why would it stop now?

    DonDodge.jpgName: Don Dodge
    Company: Microsoft
    What he's shopping for: CEO Steve Ballmer recently said Microsoft plans to acquire 20 companies a year for the next 5 years. That should keep Dodge busy.

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