April 2005

Execution and Skype’s strategy = 100 million users

April 21, 2005

May 20th of last year I wrote about execution and Skype’s strategy.  I didn’t imagine how successful they would be.  The last eleven months have been an unbelievable period for Skype.  100 million users, 96 million of whom have been added in the last  eleven months! Martin Geddes over on Telepocalypse has written what is bound to be a controversial piece.  [...]

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Wendy’s new blog

April 20, 2005

My good friend, and marketing maven, Wendy Kennedy, has a new blog up.  It’s called So What? Who Cares? Why You?  Recommended reading for entrepreneurs everywhere.

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Abramson: not a lot of news at VON Canada

April 20, 2005

Andy Abramson over at VoIPWatch commented that there isn’t a lot of news coming out of VON Canada.  True.  It’s a workmanlike show at this point, but not a place that a ton of new announcements are getting made.  Perhaps next year. I would say that despite the lack of news, there’s a ton of [...]

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Skype: the influencer model at work

April 20, 2005

I’ve spent the last couple of hours meeting with potential partners, and looking for one particular man — Niklas Zennstrom of Skype.  Unfortunately for me, Skype doesn’t have a booth here, because, as Niklas told us yesterday, Skype hasn’t spent money on marketing. That’s a rather striking statement, if you stop to think about it.  Yesterday Skype announced [...]

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Arnold on Pulver

April 20, 2005

Thanks for the plug Jon!  Jon Arnold is back on the air again, and has a nice summary of Jeff’s talk yesterday. 

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Von Canada, EOD

April 19, 2005

VON Canada, Day 1, is over. It’s been a long day.  Although there isn’t a lot of earth shattering news, there is a real sense in the air that VoIP is at the tipping point. The last two sessions of the day, for me, were the VoIP and SMB session that I participated in, and [...]

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Niklas Zennstrom and Skype at VON Canada

April 19, 2005

Now Niklas Zennstrom has the floor. Last year at VON Canada he announced Skype-In and Skype-Out. What’s in store for this year? He has a great chart of how fast his company is growing. 1.2M Skype-Out accounts. 1.5B minutes per month of traffic and growing 22% per month! It can scale at this rate because [...]

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Linking Iotum and Skype

April 19, 2005

I’ve been tossing around an idea for how to link Iotum’s product with Skype.  It’s been getting some good feedback here at the show.  In fact, Mark Evans just blogged it, and people are already asking about availability.

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Shift Happens: VNO’s and Dumb Pipes

April 19, 2005

I’m sitting in Pulver’s opening speech at VON Canada. It’s called "Shift Happens". The whole theme is that the IP shift is happening. One of the big themes is that end-to-end IP is finally happening. All we need is DUMB PIPES, and virtual network operators that ride on top of these pipes. Jeff makes a [...]

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The Stupid Network is a good idea

April 18, 2005

James Seng takes apart a slide from Vesbridge Partners Roderick Randall in which Randall asserts “the stupid network is a stupid idea”.  Caveat: I haven’t seen the whole presentation.  This slide, however, is frankly backward thinking. If you’ve read this blog before, you know that The Stupid Network is a really good idea.  Standardizing the lower [...]

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