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Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 2)
SM: What was the idea of Net6. MT: The original premise is very straight forward. We launched during the peak of the dot com boom. Back then it was all about grabbing eyeballs, and the next class of eyeballs to be grabbed was mobile eyeballs. Most companies founded in that timeframe focused on building middleware.
Sharat Sharan’s On24: Lead Generation Through WebCasting (Part 2)
SM. Where did you get the idea for your current venture? What is your domain experience in the segment? SS: When I joined ON24 in 1998, we had 2-3 people. We were using streaming audio and video but the business model had not been developed. I saw that as an opportunity because streaming was in
Enterprise 3.0 = (SaaS + EE + SME + TWS)
So the variable I talked about adding to the Enterprise 3.0 formula is Small Medium Enterprise (SME). Why is SME important? You’ve heard me say this before. But let me reiterate. For one thing, there are 25 Million of them, with an enormous spending power. To give you an example of a software company that
Happily Bootstrapping: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu (Part 6)
Here we begin to explore the current status of Zoho a bit further. Impressive numbers considering there has been no advertising campaigns conducted. The business model is simple – let users try the service for free, when they are comfortable they will migrate over. Afterwards, they compete based on pricing (less than 20% of the
Happily Bootstrapping: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu (Part 4)
AdventNet provides a safety zone from which to launch Zoho, which is why I was looking to gain an understanding of the revenue and cash position of the company. While competition will be stiff from Google and Microsoft, as well as other CRM and group meeting companies, Zoho seems to have a unique philosophy of
Citrix’s Collaboration Business Offers Strategic Options
I wrote about Citrix being an acquisition target for Oracle recently on the grounds of their on-demand collaboration product suite. Since then, I did a bit of digging on the numbers for the Citrix Online business. Whereas Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) is primarily an enterprise software company with: * $1.134B revenue 2006 * 60 million users
