I thought it worth taking a moment to review some of the companies I’ve talked to over the past 6 months that are either running their business on Telecom APIs, or helping others run their businesses on Telecom APIs. Common themes from the interviews are: Focus on running the core business. Telecom APIs means a […]
I had the opportunity to chat with Pierre Davidoff, VP Technology at delivery.com. They focus on truly representing the local businesses within a neighborhood. And it’s not just food, its groceries, wine and spirits, and recently announced cleaners. You’ll see the local businesses in a neighborhood, not just some instance of a big corporate chain. […]
Continuing the series of weblogs exploring businesses running on Telecom APIs, I spoke with Sammy James, founder and CEO of Speak2Leads. Speak2Leads’ proposition is simple, respond almost immediately to a customer lead, with six in total carefully timed contact attempts. A Kellogg study on Lead Response Management (LRM) revealed the odds of connecting with a […]
Last week I had an interesting chat with the founders of Blue Butterfly, Andy King and Jack Wall. Blue Butterfly has created an interesting new service for businesses and their customers that uses NFC (Near Field Communications), QR (Quick Response) codes, and any other widely adopted machine readable technology that pops up in the future. […]
Last week I had a discussion with kindred spirits Brian Lynott CEO and Owner of TeleSmart and Jim Lundeen Solutions Engineer at Telesmart on their experiences with running their business on Telecom APIs, thanks to an introduction from Voxeo Labs, who also review Telemart on their weblog. The reason I felt they were kindred is […]
I recently chatted with John Logsdon, CEO and founder of NetDev, and Mark Daley, Business Development Director, about their new service called Drum, a real-time web meeting and audio conferencing service. Drum is designed so that it can be used not just for business meetings and presentations, but for other tasks such as project updates, […]
Continuing the series of ‘Start-Ups To Watch’ that are building their businesses on Telecom APIs; I had the good fortune to chat with Roger Billerey-Mosier, VP Engineering and Product at Crunched, introduced through Voxeo Labs and reviewed on their weblog. The next company in this series is Drum from NetDev; I’ve known the CEO, John […]
At the AT&T Developer Summit myaNUMBER gave an excellent presentation of their Telecom API-enabled service, there’s a sweet video demonstration at the end of this article. At the AT&T event I was fortunate to have Voxeo Labs introduce me to the founders of myaNUMBER, John Wantz, Chief Dad, and Kyle Schei, Ops Dad; and we […]
In this end of year article I’ll review 2012 and look at a few of the things coming up in 2013. 2012 has been an eventful year, we tend to miss how eventful as we’re busy working and raising our families (a life-long commitment!). The year opened with some operators finally admitting revenues are in […]
Voxeo Labs announced today the availability of Ameche, a Communications Platform as a Service (cPaaS) that delivers “Apps in your Calls™” to stabilize and grow voice, video, messaging, and value added service revenues, an over $1 trillion market. Ameche is a developer platform that provides the tools, execution environment and revenue models for a new […]