A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 5)

SM: Who do you consider your competitors based on where your business is today? JK: Skype certainly is when it comes to video conferencing. They did a great job with the PC to phone service, although we had that offering before they did. I personally think Skype did a great job recognizing that international calling

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: Common Sense Solutions To The Issues We All Face

Another review of Sramana Mitra’s Vision India 2020 on Amazon.com: “It is an interesting premise for the basis of a book, shorn of many of the greater issues that India faces from poverty to crime to population to education; the simple premise is what can I do to help my country not fall back to

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A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 4)

SM: How does your revenue break down between subscription and ads? JK: About 85% of our revenue comes directly from consumers paying. The other 15% is from advertising.

A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 3)

SM: When you first started were there any other companies competing in the social IM space? JK: There were some companies that came out focusing on voice conferencing via the Internet. LibStream, FireTalk, and HearMe were the most significant, and all were well funded. HearMe was a public company and had $270 million in public

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Push Of Encouragement To Set You On The Path To Success

Here is Charles Ashbacher’s review of Innovation: Need Of The Hour (Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume 4) on Amazon.com: “It is hard to argue with the basic premise of this collection of interviews, namely that innovation driven by entrepreneurs is the key to solving the biggest problems of today. The near financial collapse of late 2008 destabilized markets

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A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 2)

SM: When you had your first IM client, who were your competitors? JK: At that time AOL and ICQ were had the primary instant messaging clients. MSN, Yahoo and Skype had not yet entered the field. Of course, those IM clients were text only and did not involve a voice component like ours.

A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 1)

Jason Katz is the founder and CEO of Paltalk.com. Jason oversees the strategic direction of Paltalk and also manages the company’s system architecture. Jason is an authority on instant messaging as well as web based voice and video. Jason previously co-founded MJ Capital, a money management firm. Earlier in his career, he was a corporate

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Personalized Alerts In The Enterprise: xMatters CEO Troy McAlpin (Part 7)

SM: You are in multiple markets. How big are those markets? What is your TAM? TM: From our perspective the IT operations and service management TAM is somewhere between $600 million and $1 billion. The business continuity marketplace has a $1 billion TAM. We like our positioning in that marketplace because we have such a

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