Building a company requires a high tolerance for adversity.
Successful entrepreneurs rarely let nasty surprises or severe setbacks break their spirit. Here’s how three founders of thriving firms overcame hurdles along the way:
• Chip Conley, president and chief executive of San Francisco-based Joie de…
How many times have you thought your home business would benefit from having a toll-free phone number or that you need a business phone line but can’t afford one and you don’t want to publish your home or cell number on your marketing collateral or…
An inexpensive service lets SMBs look like megacorporations.
SmallCellars.com
Size: Three full-time employees
Challenge: Provide the customer service of a big company
Solution: GotVMail
Results: Massive cost savings-$40 per month instead of a $30,000 PBX
Brandon Smith worked for a large…
A small Massachusetts company is discovering the joys of mining the niches of the advanced services market, delivering a virtual PBX service to small businesses that is good enough to sell itself.
GotVMail Communications, based outside Boston in Weston, Mass., has been selling its service…
When Julie F. Smith launched Vintage June Inc., from her Boca Raton home in 2005, she knew how she used the phone could help her business appear larger than home-based.
Though Smith answered calls with a professional greeting, when she left the home office—to run…
For businesses of all sizes, it’s important to stay connected.
Large corporations have huge servers and $100,000 phone systems just to help their employees and customers stay in touch.
Small businesses and young entrepreneurs don’t have the luxury of those expensive phone systems, and that’s…
For most hvacr companies, the practice of outsourcing takes on a slightly different meaning than it does for the very large corporations that popularized the practice, says Tim Cummins, CEO of the International Association of Contract & Commercial Managers (www.iaccm.com), a nonprofit that focuses on…
CNN Pipeline Anchor Nicole Lapin gets to know young people who are getting an early start on doing incredible things in a new CNN.com series, Young People Who Rock.
A lot guys in their early twenties are out partying all night and “figuring it out”…
GotVMail Communications LLC, a virtual phone service provider that caters to small businesses, has more than 30,000 customers and hopes a marketing deal it inked last week with FedEx Corp. will continue to fuel its rapid growth.
Weston-based GotVMail is a subscription-based phone service…
Last fall, executives from Symbian heralded the start of the smartphone era. Smartphones, they said, are about to revolutionize society, much like the Internet did in the 1990s. The executives predicted that smartphones will replace PCs in the next five years, and that the enormous…
Call it 2006’s most promising young guns. The top 40 under 40 list is our remarkable selection of those talented young leaders who, with deep understanding of today’s fast changing technology, had the extraordinary ability to develop a new variety of business models with a…
Welcome to the second annual Product of the Year Award issue and 2007 Buyer’s Guide, your one-stop guide to the best technology products and services to grow your small business.
Whew! What an amazing array of products our Labs Team has tested over the past…
A typical day for many workers in small businesses involves a round of tedious but essential actions, repeated over and over and over: Check for e-mail on computer and read messages. Check voicemail on phone and retrieve messages. Go to fax machine and check for…
In her column the other day Paula Bernier of New Telephony posed the question, “What’s Really New in VoIP?” That was my thought exactly after trolling through recent “news.”
Skype has a new Internet video service. It brings validation to the net as a…
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