Pioneering Video Conferencing: Polycom CEO Bob Hagerty (Part 6)

SM: What was your response to the customer demands? We created a suite of solutions. We bought Accord Networks which we felt was the best multipoint conferencing network. Then we had the endpoints in the multipoint. From within we built an IT application called GMS, which allowed us to run all of the equipment. We

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Turning Around LeapFrog: CEO Jeff Katz (Part 4)

SM: While you were doing Orbitz, did you already join the board of LeapFrog? JK: No, I joined the board in April of 2005. SM: How did they find you? JK: Leapfrog had been in the process of restructuring its board of directors, moving from insider directors to independent directors. They were looking for somebody

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Latin America Internet Market

I am in Argentina this week on a Consulting assignment with Mercado Libre (MELI), the region’s largest e-commerce marketplace. So here’s some interesting data about the Latin American Internet market from a bunch of different sources that I am working with. [My Indian readers would find it interesting to contrast some of this data with

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Pioneering Video Conferencing: Polycom CEO Bob Hagerty (Part 5)

SM: You do serve the mid market, extensively. BH: We do. Below the strategic’s we have global accounts. Our solution is better than being somewhere in person, and that is a nice mantra. You want people to be productive when they are not in the same place. That is fundamentally our market. You have to

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Turning Around LeapFrog: CEO Jeff Katz (Part 3)

SM: Was Saber under American Airlines or on its own? JK: Saber, by that time, was a public company. It was not controlled by American Airlines anymore. The Chief Financial officer at United had the idea that the airline industry needed to form its own competitor to Travelocity and Saber, otherwise the industry would be

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Do We Need More Funds in India?

Someone posed this very appropriate question in response to my Incubator Fund series. The answer is No. However, what we need is two things:

Pioneering Video Conferencing: Polycom CEO Bob Hagerty (Part 4)

SM: What were some of the major milestones in building the company from $37 Million to $682 Million a year? BH: Founding the company, what Brian and Jeff did was important. They had a great creative design. That is not the exact design we introduced, but close. You would know if you saw the original

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A Discussion Mark Zuckerberg Never Had

By Gadi Shamia, Guest Author I actually didn’t plan to write about Facebook any more. In my recent post I claimed that Facebook is not solving any real problem. My readers were kind enough to prove me wrong … Jason thought we were just too old, and Jose thought that the problem Facebook is solving

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