Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 5)

Sramana: So, it’s the usual adoption cycle. I think we’re still at that early adopter phase of these technologies. Markos: Yes, definitely. People get concerned. They say, “Wait a minute. We don’t want the business being disturbed by all these things.” So, they don’t have to be disturbed, but it’s a case of you need

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Bernardo de Albergaria and Tommy Ahlers of Citrix Online (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What you’re describing is a time not too far in the future in the use case that you talked about, Tommy, in that you want to organize a sales conference with a bunch of customers. You want to invite them to this sales conference, and you need to pull data from Salesforce.com. Potentially,

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Bernardo de Albergaria and Tommy Ahlers of Citrix Online (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How did you get into the market? This is a tough place when there are so many players going at it with so many different perspectives. Bernardo de Albergaria: Yes and no. Yes, because you have to position yourself vis-à-vis all the other players that exist in the market. Why are you different?

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: George Zachary, General Partner, Charles River Ventures (Part 4)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: What is your biggest investment success to date? George: I am one of the three original investors on Twitter; I’m sure that will work out well. And I’m an investor in a company called Yammer, which is becoming the Facebook of enterprise and which is going to be showing

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: MangoSpring, Bellevue, WA

MangoSpring, with its philosophy of “social collaboration with a purpose,” makes business collaboration and productivity applications that are offered à la carte or as a suite. It is one of several smaller players in collaboration software to challenge the larger Salesforce.com and Cisco.

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Reftree

By guest author Praveen Kumar Reftree is a social network platform with interactive and collaborative Web solutions for enterprise customers. The company’s goal is to enable client organizations to build an interactive Web presence, including community building, which helps in connecting with all stakeholders – prospects, customers, employees, and well-wishers. Reftree provides an array of

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