Life of a high tech startup:

7/13/01 Rob & Brian meet in Brian's kitchen because Rob was looking for a new job

7/17/01 Rob & Tony meet for first time, Instant I/O born at Naked Fish in Westborough, MA

8/3/01 Brian comes up with I/O Integrity for a company name, approved by all

8/13/01 First IOI Business Plan drafted

10/12/01 Brian leaves SANgate

11/1/01 I/O Integrity incorporated

11/3/01 MIT Enterprise Forum in semi-stealth mode

11/14/01 First official IOI staff meeting

11/16/01 Rob Left EMC

11/30/01 Tony left SANgate

12/1/01 First official presentation to potential investor

12/6/01 IOI Bank Account opened

12/9/01 IOI Family get together at Robs

12/10/01 Net I/O born at Thai lunch in Waltham, MA

12/12/01 First investment offer, $500K, $1M post

12/13/01 Patents 1000-1002 signed and filed

12/20/01 Network Appliances Expressed interest in Net I/O

1/4/02 Ric offers $2M in stock for IOI

1/18/02 Meeting with Deadline Specialists in Boulder, CO

1/22/02 Moved into office space

1/24/02 Met with Lazard VC - first real VC meeting

2/8/02 Patent 1003 filed

2/8/02 Met with first Tier 1 VC - Polaris

2/11/02 Met with Castile VC

2/14/02 Met with first Customer - Bose

2/25/02 Castile VC said "no"

3/7/02 Consulting agreement with Deadline specialists signed

3/8/02 IOI Software Demo to MC Ventures

3/8/02 MC Ventures visits IOI Offices

3/13/02 Met with Enterprise Ventures (Harry Dixon, Roger Marino etc),

3/14/02 Got written letter of intent from Enterprise Ventures on investment

3/29/02 IOI agreed to EV investment

4/11/02 IOI Receives Series A Funding from Enterprise Ventures

4/19/02 First IOI Friday Bagel Day

4/22/02 IOI Makes first job offer for QA Lead position (delayed start date)

4/26/02 First IOI Pay Day

5/3/02 First expensed meal (signing up recruiter) @ Skupper Jacks

5/8/02 First IOI Board Meeting

5/15/02 Mark Zani and Kevin Baughman accepted verbal offers to join IOI as empoyees #4 and #5.

5/24/02 Bought desks/chairs for new space and moved them in with much pain and sweat

5/29/02 Raid-1 running clean through regression

5/30/02 First delivery of office supplies

6/1/02 Kevin B/Mark Z started

6/3/02 IOI trip to Astek

6/5/02 ASIC Vendor Selected - Astek

6/7/02 First I/Os through prototype

6/18/02 IOI Moves into new space at 89 Main Street, Suite 111

6/21/02 Yuval visitis IOI

6/27/02 First clean overnight run with data compare (but internal ioe)

7/15/02 Said "no" to Polaris - not a fit for our needs

7/15/02 MontaVista Linux selected as Embedded O/S

7/22/02 Installed/booted Linux on prototype

7/29/02 Prototype behaved as Solaris device

8/5/02 Met with Sun Storage CTO - Balint

8/6/02 Mark Ward replaces Jim Sullivan on IOI board of directors

8/6/02 Windows XP install/boot against prototype

8/7/02 Rich Dixon, VP Sales accepted offer

9/4/02 WinBench numbers obtained 6x drive performance, 4x LSI RAID HBA

9/5/02 IOI meets with PC Connections and gets favorable nod

10/8/02 Rob & Tony meet with EV to negotiate Bridge Loan

10/8/02 Tony agrees to accept Acting CEO role and start CEO search

10/21/02 Rob installs DSCO on home XP machine

10/22/02 Rob Faxes intstructions to wire money to IOI to Make Payroll

10/23/02 EV Sends first installment of Bridge Loan

10/30/02 First Board meeting at IOI Offices

11/7/02 First IOI Prototype install at MSL

11/8/02 IOI Gets first 2X application performance at actual customer site - MSL

11/21/02 Hardware bringup begins

11/22/02 10x performance improvement achieved at Northeastern University with Prototype

11/27/02 IOI Logo Selected

12/2/02 First real VC Partner meeting with Sigma

12/9/02 IOI HW boots Linux

12/18/02 IOI gets a term sheet from Athenian

1/31/03 IOI lays off first employee - Sales

2/6/03 IOI bounces its first checks

2/7/03 IOI PCI Hardware arrives

2/11/03 IOI Meets Dell in Austin, TX

3/3/03 IOI lays off 4 employees and one founder - Brian

3/15/03 DSCO runs on XScale reference platform

3/21/03 PCI Board self boots & runs regression overnight to multiple drives as U160 Bump - Alpha ready

3/21/03 IOI Board votes to shutdown the company

3/25/03 SEV agrees to IOI shutdown

3/28/03 IOI Closes its doors