Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Yaacov Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO of Harmon.ie (Part 1)

This interview explores how enterprises are using composite mobile apps that bring various cloud and mobile services together on a device. Sramana Mitra: Yaacov, let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Harmon.ie. Yaacov Cohen: Thank you for having me, Sramana. My name is Yaacov Cohen and I’m the co-founder and CEO of

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Not Just Wine in Bordeaux – Interview with Benjamin Mestrallet, Founder and CEO of eXo (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Up to a point everybody has to do it. Nobody finances concepts anymore. Everybody wants to see a business. So you have to bootstrap up to a certain point. Then, when you are in Silicon Valley or a place that has a seed capital system, you can get money to start. If you

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Not Just Wine in Bordeaux – Interview with Benjamin Mestrallet, Founder and CEO of eXo (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The reason I am asking you these questions is that I imagine there are a lot of people sitting in our shoes who want to have their own social networks. Benjamin Mestrallet: That is what is interesting about the market. If you look at the social market, it looks like a consolidated market

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Not Just Wine in Bordeaux – Interview with Benjamin Mestrallet, Founder and CEO of eXo (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So you compete with Jive? Benjamin Mestrallet: Yes. But we have features that compete with Yammer or others. SM: So you do have full social media capability now? BM: We have 80% of the features you can find on Jive.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Not Just Wine in Bordeaux – Interview with Benjamin Mestrallet, Founder and CEO of eXo (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Is this SI a Latin American SI? Benjamin Mestrallet: Yes. SM: So in Latin America you have been able to get the SI deals as well? BM: Yes, but it was them contacting us. This one is unusual, but it happened like that.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Not Just Wine in Bordeaux – Interview with Benjamin Mestrallet, Founder and CEO of eXo (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What you are describing is standard nowadays. I run my entire company with a virtual team. Benjamin Mestrallet: That is how we used to do it, too. In September 2009, however, I moved with the entire family and got the visa in February 2010.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Not Just Wine in Bordeaux – Interview with Benjamin Mestrallet, Founder and CEO of eXo (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: And the two other people working with you on this project were also from this school in Bordeaux? Benjamin Mestrallet: No. One was from Canada and the other one from Ukraine. We met online and started working together. When the U.S. Department of Defense came and asked us to do some consulting services

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Not Just Wine in Bordeaux – Interview with Benjamin Mestrallet, Founder and CEO of eXo (Part 1)

Benjamin Mestrallet is the founder and chief executive officer of eXo, a company that helps other companies connect their employees through social intranets, websites and dashboards. Benjamin started the eXo project in 2002 while still a student. He holds an advanced master’s degree in management science from the University of Paris IX Dauphine. In this

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