PBX as SaaS: RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis (Part 4)

SM: What was the application that you were developing at the time? VS: It was an answering machine on the PC. We developed the application, and it would not work. We had a meeting with HP up in Boston, and we were getting worried. My chief engineer and I had a sleepless night and found

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 1)

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Redesign That: Personal Finance 3.0 Seeing as how many of us are trying to put a lockdown on our spending this year, we decided to take a broad look across personal money management websites, evaluate their pros

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Anneke Seley on Sales 2.0 (Part 1)

For the next two weekends I will feature excerpts from ‘Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and Technology’ by Anneke Seley and Brent Holloway. Anneke and Brent begin by defining Sales 2.0 and discussing the innovations necessary for its implementation. WHAT IS SALES 2.0? Sales 2.0 is the use of innovative sales practices,

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PBX as SaaS: RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis (Part 3)

SM: Did you build your business yourself, or did you take outside funding? VS: We were not funded. We were always self-sustained. Eventually we figured out that we could reuse code we had, which let us focus on specific types of projects.

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Anneke Seley

Anneke Seley, coauthor of ‘Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and Technology’, was the twelfth employee at Oracle and the designer of OracleDirect, the company’s revolutionary inside sales operation. She is currently the CEO and founder of Phone Works (www.phoneworks.com), a sales strategy and implementation consultancy that helps large and small businesses

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Forbes Column 2009: Barriers To Innovation

Here’s Zero-In this week, reflecting on what barriers to innovation need to be removed for us to have a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. Read my new Forbes column, Barriers To Innovation.