Michael Harries
Future of Mobile: Secrets from Citrix Startup Accelerator
One of the reasons we set up the Citrix Startup Accelerator was to explore what's coming next by working with cool, inspirational entrepreneurs. This talk exposes some of our thinking around investments in four mobile oriented startups, and uses them as jumping off points to talk about emerging mobile trends. (Recorded at Citrix Synergy last week.)Let's peek into the crystal ball. Last week we also held ...
Drawing back the curtains – Startup.Synergy finalists
Startup.synergy is now just a week away (May 9) and I'm excited to announce our finalists who will be competing on stage for a $100k investment from Citrix Startup Accelerator.At Startup.Synergy we will also be celebrating our first group of enterprise-oriented startup companies and their successes throughout the year. We'll be showcasing our groundbreaking approach to corporate innovation via taking startups from seed through to ...
Future of Mobile, Startups, and upside-down IT
Have you heard about the Citrix Startup Accelerator? It’s been running since early 2011; we’ve invested in 11 very cool, interesting startups; some of which are great examples of the new capabilities in our IT world emerging from mobile. At the upcoming Citrix Synergy, I’m going to share some insights into how this will continue to turn IT upside down using some of our investments ...
GrexIt brings Shared/Public Folders to Google Apps mail (Citrix Startup Accelerator Company)
GrexIt is a Citrix Startup Accelerator company.Shared or Public Folders have been a hugely popular feature in MS Outlook and Exchange, whereas they have always been absent from Google Apps email. Being able to share email conversations with your colleagues is of great value for most email users, and GrexIt brings this functionality into Google Apps. And its so much better than Shared email Folders ...
Mobile apps that work for the enterprise – CoreMobile
Last night’s IIT Alumni event at Google was a coming-out party for the Core Mobile technology - one-touch instant access to the most relevant information. In large part, the company is the culmination of two previous IIT events exploring how the mobile device could be more effectively used. This is a grand vindication of these types of meetups with real, tangible outcomes. Here are my ...
That’s so cool! Validating the device as desktop hypothesis …
How many 'wow' demos have you seen? Where you're shown something new that solves a problem you didn't know you had? Where you realize that some part of your life can be radically more simple and streamlined? This week I was at Citrix Sales Kickoff - where Citrix sales teams get together for a refresh on our messaging and to plan the coming year. In part ...
Another piece of the Handy Elephant
There is a wonderful story about the six blind men and the elephant. As wikipedia puts it: The blind man who feels a leg says the elephant is like a pillar; the one who feels the tail says the elephant is like a rope; the one who feels the trunk says the elephant is like a tree branch; the one who feels the ear says ...
Handy Elephant and Building Connections
I’ve just returned from a trip to Australia and Japan reconnecting with a heap of fantastic contacts and friends and meeting new people <hi everyone>. This has been awesome, with the niggle that I’m not always good at maintaining these connections once I return home.This challenge of maintaining connections is something that affects all of us, but is particularly relevant to sales and business development ...
Citrix Startup Accelerator <3 drumbi
I've recently posted five videos on the Citrix Startup Accelerator investment themes. One of these themes is cloud.next; about making investments that push our conceptions of 'cloud'. I gave the example of peer to peer computing as a movement we hear little about these days, despite the increasing power of our personal computing device, the SmartPhone.Today I'm pleased to announce that we have invested in drumbi. ...
GridCentric joins the Citrix Startup Accelerator
I've recently posted five videos on the Citrix Startup Accelerator investment thesis. Two of these videos discussed desktop.next and cloud.next. We are investing in companies that are driving new thinking around the next evolution of end user desktop and cloud computing.One key area for the overlap between these areas is driving forward the state of the art for virtual (desktop) computing. Companies that bring new ...