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Deal Radar 2009: The Rubicon Project

The Rubicon Project was born as a solution to one of the largest problems publishers face today: monetizing ad space. Approximately 80% of this space goes unsold across a fast-growing number of global ad networks. The company’s mission is to automate the $65 billion global online advertising industry with the goal of making advertising an effortless

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PBX as SaaS: RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis (Part 2)

SM: Tell me about your first job at Corporate Data Science. VS: It was in the very early days before Windows and before DOS, back in 1981. I was a Unix systems engineer. They were trying to come up with an Operating System.

PBX as SaaS: RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis (Part 1)

Vlad is the CEO and founder of RingCentral, which provides VoIP, hosted PBX, voicemail, fax and Internet call waiting services through platforms such as RingCentral.com, Pagoo.com and Buzme.com. Prior to RingCentral he was the founder and CEO of Ring Zero, a provider of desktop voice and fax communication software for the OEM market. He graduated

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Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 7)

SM: Candidly, are there other companies who are executing as well with a strong adoption curve? KL: WebMD has done very well. A big part of their business is consumer, and their growth rate has slowed dramatically.

Deal Radar 2009: IntraLinks

In 1996, IntraLinks founders Arthur Sculley, John Muldoon and Mark Adams, noticed that the loan syndication market depended on an informal network of couriers, fax machines and email to distribute critical documents. They realized that the process was slow, cumbersome and prone to security problems.

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 6)

SM: Let’s talk about TAM. You looked at $400 million TAM on the physician side and $14 billion TAM on the pharma advertising side. Now we are looking at $250 billion TAM on the health care administration side. Those are serious orders of magnitude. KL: I think right now we are taking smaller steps. The

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Deal Radar 2009: Edutainment Resources, Inc.

Even as companies such as Google, Microsoft and Nokia develop technologies to “write the future of the web” in Kannada, Russian and Nepali, and scholars question whether English will “retain its pre-eminence”, each year millions of people begin to study what is still the official language of organizations as diverse as the European Central Bank,

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