Entrepreneurship alive and well in Telecom

September 1, 2010

Entrepreneurship has become nothing short of cult-like in the last few years. From something once reserved only for the very risk-friendly, to something that all the ‘cool’ kids now do when they get out of school, starting a business is a way of life. Not only in the ‘Valley’, not even only in US and [...]

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Early stage funding comes to Social Telephony.

August 26, 2010

Hackathons put on by the likes of TechCrunch, StartupWeekend and others have spawned new products – and sometimes companies – literally overnight. Such is the way in the world of open-source, open API’s and cloud computing. While many outputs end up as little more than fodder for Friday night drinks, some catch adequate fire to [...]

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Old (and new) fashioned networking = great StartupCamp keynote.

July 23, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Nothing matters more at an event like StartupCamp, Communications Edition (that myself and partner Phil Telio co-produce with TMC) than the crowd going home thinking…valuable time well spent. This means putting together the most engaging, relevant and genuine (as in no pay-to-play) content possible for what amounts to a rather diverse audience. [...]

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Channels in a Cloud Comm World.

July 14, 2010

Image via Wikipedia In the business communications market, there’s not a provider that doesn’t give consideration to leveraging ‘the channel’ as a way to scale. With this in mind, as well as a Buzz post from industry friend Peter Radizeski suggesting the Hosted PBX community pay closer attention to the growth of Hosted IVR companies, I [...]

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Geeking out with SF Telephony-types.

July 10, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Last week marked the first ‘Meetup’ of SF Telephony peeps (I can’t stand that expression actually, but it seems to apply here), organized and hosted by some folks over at Orange Labs in South San Francisco. They have a perfect little gathering room on their premises, and it’s not the first time [...]

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StartupCamp Returns.

June 30, 2010

Last Fall, I decided along with my partner Phil Telio that it was time to bring a pitch event – one that exposes early stage innovators – to telecom. While these type of events are common place these days in the Web 2.0 space, I thought it would be fun and good for the community to [...]

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Twilio brings the iPhone model to phone systems: Can VARs get in on it?

June 22, 2010

(as I previously published at NoJitter) Telecom can thank the cloud for many things these days, not the least of which is the slew of seasoned, yet first-time telecom entrepreneurs it has brought our way. With barriers to entry falling, fresh talent has arrived, and with it new ways to approach old problems. Image via [...]

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Conferencing Chatter.

June 14, 2010

  I’ve always liked the conferencing business. After all, it was the original – if underrated – application in the cloud, well before we used terms like hosted, SaaS and others. And while it has changed over the years with the addition of web collaboration and now rapidly evolving video elements, voice conferencing remains a [...]

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Markets take time. Just ask Video.

June 7, 2010

With the InfoComm show pending this week in Vegas, it’s announce-ware time in the visual communications space. But this time around, this is not hype. Video’s hot in seemingly every corner of the industry, including mobile thanks to the FaceTime announcement today from Apple – and a well timed release of data from GigaOM, promising [...]

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All hail the Mobile PBX. Ringio calls it like it is.

June 3, 2010

For as intuitive as the term ‘Mobile PBX’ is, few companies have chosen to make it front and center in their marketing efforts. Sure, to hang with the cool kids these days we use terms like unified or cloud communications, but PBX still says phone system to most (even if they can’t tell you what [...]

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