Podcast at Renewable Energy World

Check this interview out: Learning from Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs.

Forbes Column 2009: Barriers To Innovation

Here’s Zero-In this week, reflecting on what barriers to innovation need to be removed for us to have a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. Read my new Forbes column, Barriers To Innovation.

Obama Slams Wall Street Bonuses

Obama has slammed Wall Street bonuses. Thank goodness. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: The Rubicon Project

The Rubicon Project was born as a solution to one of the largest problems publishers face today: monetizing ad space. Approximately 80% of this space goes unsold across a fast-growing number of global ad networks. The company’s mission is to automate the $65 billion global online advertising industry with the goal of making advertising an effortless source of income for publishers. >>>

PBX as SaaS: RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis (Part 2)

SM: Tell me about your first job at Corporate Data Science.

VS: It was in the very early days before Windows and before DOS, back in 1981. I was a Unix systems engineer. They were trying to come up with an Operating System. >>>

PBX as SaaS: RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis (Part 1)

Vlad is the CEO and founder of RingCentral, which provides VoIP, hosted PBX, voicemail, fax and Internet call waiting services through platforms such as RingCentral.com, Pagoo.com and Buzme.com. Prior to RingCentral he was the founder and CEO of Ring Zero, a provider of desktop voice and fax communication software for the OEM market. He graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State with degrees in computer science.

SM: Vlad, where do you come from?

VS: I was born in Odessa, which used to be part of Russia and is now part of Ukraine. I came to the Bay Area to finish high school. >>>

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 7)

SM: Candidly, are there other companies who are executing as well with a strong adoption curve?

KL: WebMD has done very well. A big part of their business is consumer, and their growth rate has slowed dramatically. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: IntraLinks

In 1996, IntraLinks founders Arthur Sculley, John Muldoon and Mark Adams, noticed that the loan syndication market depended on an informal network of couriers, fax machines and email to distribute critical documents. They realized that the process was slow, cumbersome and prone to security problems. >>>