Backed by Scott Sandell at NEA and Doug Ayer at ICP; James Phillips ran products; Hare ran a strategy and project-management engagement; Progress Software eventually acquired it
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Actional Corporation built web-services and XML-management software in the early 2000s, venture-backed by Scott Sandell at NEA and Doug Ayer at ICP. James Phillips was SVP of Products and Marketing, and Jonathan Hare's engagement there — strategy and project management, commissioned by Phillips — is the direct thread this record holds. Actional was later acquired by Progress Software. In the record's map it is a junction: the node where the Sandell introduction, the Phillips relationship, and Hare's consulting-era work meet.
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Met through Scott Sandell's first NEA days; the strategy and project-management engagement at Actional, long before Power BI and the fifteen-thousand-person group
Open →invested in by, at NEATold Hare to camp somewhere else
Open →invested in by, at ICPThe record holds one fact and says so
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