When companies first launch, they’re often best at focusing in on their mission, on what they do best or – ideally – on the single biggest market problem they can address. Point is, they focus. And while this is often thanks to a strong leader, it just as often can be the sheer force of [...]
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Communications Startups Continue to Spread Out.
This week, if the alleged ‘Storm of the Century’ allows, myself and many others will be traveling to Miami (where the weather is superb) for a week of networking, fun and a bunch of ‘other’ at the East installment of ITExpo. And for the third time in succession, my partner at Embrase, Phil Telio, and [...]
EmergComm Entrepreneurs fire up $45M+ in Q4.
Image by Kevin H. via Flickr What a difference a year can make. Scratch that…comparing 2009 to 2010 is b-o-r-i-n-g. But the closing quarter of 2010 was anything but boring for a growing crop of entrepreneurs in the emerging communications sector. In 2008 I wrote often about the surge of new blood entering the communications [...]
Google Entrepreneurs Descend on StartupCamp in Miami.
Image via CrunchBase The recipe for a successful StartupCamp Comms is fairly straightforward. Not always easy to pull off, but at least the formula is simple: 1. An engaging keynote speaker with tales to tell and from whom the audience can learn something. James Siminoff (’10 – Miami) and Jeff Bonforte (’10 – LA) more [...]
10 years later…This is not your Father’s Earthlink.
Remember when Earthlink was THE VoIP company. In 2001 when VoIP meant anything but reliable and mainstream, Earthlink poured themselves into what was a nascent market, betting on the come that packaging fast growing DSL with cheap voice would be a winner. While Earthlink contributed significantly to early adoption and education around VoIP (in their [...]
Naughty or Nice, J2Global might Come-a-Knocking.
It’s not every day that a Canadian company gets acquired for north of $200M, much less one in the telecom space. But it can happen, as evidenced by last week’s announced purchase of Ottawa-based ProtusIP by J2Global for a cool $213M. ProtusIP providers a variety of small business communications services, including fax, email marketing and [...]
LTE/4G Makes 2011 The Year of the Soft Client
With Verizon rolling out LTE in some 30+ cities and over 60 airports this past weekend the press has been playing off of the download speeds. What they’re missing is the fact that latency will be much, much lower and that means VOICE over IP is going to flourish and as such make 2011 the [...]
RingRevenue Ring$ in the Holidays.
Image via CrunchBase Just in time for the holidays, RingRevenue has completed its next round of financing. A trailblazer in enabling advertisers to profitably integrate phone calls into their processes, today’s news suggests strongly the company has indeed proved out their model. This morning’s announcement reads: Marketing company RingRevenue has rased $4 million in venture capital financing, bringing [...]
Voice M&A Gets Going: Cbeyond, Oracle and others jump in.
Over the last years, few conversations have gone by without someone pondering when the ‘roll-up’ would inevitably start in the hosted voice space. But in 2009, while many may have poked around, the opportunities were more so to pick off distressed properties than to invest in real scale or product line expansion. People were nervous, [...]
Let the Good Times Roll: BroadSoft Connections 2010.
There is little glamor in business travel these days. Airport security is like checking into prison, the planes are all packed and there always seems to be someone ahead of you in the upgrade line. But every once in a while your work takes you somewhere that makes the grind seem worth it. For me, [...]
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Skype: Lost focus or an exit-play after all?
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Mobile Video Calls Are Not A Real Need. Period.
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Google Targets Skype
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Will there be a Voice Conferencing 2.0?
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Microsoft Contacts Next of Kin
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Rich Calling For SMBs Now Possible
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Skype: Lost focus or an exit-play after all?
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Is the Cloud Safe?
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Lessons in Phone History.
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Telecom may be old; but no boring.
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Will video go the way of voice mail?
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