A usual pain for start-ups and many SMEs as they are scattered around the world and also very cost conscious is collaboration between employees. Email helps a lot but often you want to do more like common meeting planner, common documents archive, basic CRM, web conferences. You either need a smart geek building it up with some php or a good investment into an intranet server for your company. Or you could just go to Intranets.com that has a hosted suit of application usually fitting for most corporate customers. So no hardware, no customizing just using a pre-packaged tool.

The company got a US$20 million infusion in 1999 and has used the money well since. It now features 7,500 customers and 200,000 users (seats) worldwide. The company recently realized its 35th consecutive month of revenue growth and expects to increase revenue by more than 50 percent in 2004. More about the numbers here. Impressive!