Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 1)

B.V. Jagadeesh is a successful entrepreneur and a proven leader. He was also the co-founder of Exodus Communications, a leader in the web co-location market that enjoyed a highly successful IPO. Prior to joining 3Leaf Systems as CEO, he served as group vice president and general manager of Citrix Systems’ Application Networking Group and as president

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Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 7)

SM: Beyond IT, what you are saying is that training and learning organizations are great places to scale your account. That is where you would send your sales organization. GC: More and more companies now have someone in charge of collaboration. There are people in charge of improving communication with those new technologies. Technology people

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Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 6)

SM: Where do you go from here? GC: We have been investing a lot in building the teams. A year ago the focus was to find the right financial partners. It has taken us more time to grow than we initially planned, which is not unusual.

Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 5)

SM: What else should we be talking about in your story? GC: We now have 17 employees. We moved to a new office. We used to be in a basement in Palo Alto, and now we are in San Mateo.

Do You Squidoo?

My friend Rajesh Shetty just had me build a Squidoo page. I am curious…do you guys know of Squidoo?

Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 4)

SM: Can you give me an example of an application Veodia is supporting? GC: We built a plug-in for Clearspace that allows you to record a video from within Clearspace. Any employee can create video and share it internally with other employees, as well as sharing or receiving videos from clients.

Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 2)

SM: How big did Envivio become, and what was your evolution with them? GC: I stayed with them for five years. They now have 120 employees; when I joined there were 15. At some point they were involved in too many markets and they had to focus.

Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 1)

Guillaume Cohen is the founder and CEO of Veodia, an SaaS streaming video service. Before founding Veodia, Guillaume was head of enterprise business at Envivio. He led the founding of the Enterprise Work Group at the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) and is a regular speaker at conferences. Here he shares his entrepreneurial journey with

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