Friday Five: 5 Social Media Tips for Entrepreneurs

Join RingCentral, Frost & Sullivan and Lyft for a free e-seminar to learn about the latest trends driving mobility at work! Lyft, a community ride sharing service, uses RingCentral to embrace and optimize mobility while still relaying on BYOD. Hear Adam Fishman, the company’s director of growth and operations, describe how his business needs are [...]

RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis spoke last week at the Silicon Valley Open Doors technology investment conference. Below is an edited and condensed transcript of Vlad’s views on entrepreneurship, venture funding and business success. Dylan Tweney, the executive editor of VentureBeat, was the interviewer. Dylan Tweney: Can you give us a little more understanding of RingCentral? [...]

Are you using desk phones with your RingCentral account? RingCentral offers many different pre-provisioned phone models at a number of price points, so there’s a RingCentral desk phone for everyone. Configuring RingCentral phones is easy – our phones are “Plug and Ring” ready. That means making and receiving calls is as simple as plugging your [...]

Patrick Houston is a seasoned tech media veteran. He wrote for and served as a bureau chief at Businessweek before leading Yahoo’s tech channel – and later became the editor-in-chief of CNET, the nation’s most widely read tech news platform. Now, Patrick is trying his hand at entrepreneurship with CloudBase3.com. The site – an offshoot [...]

This week Facebook announced that it will be “switching on” hashtags in the near future. Of course you’ve always been able to integrate hashtags into posts – but until now there was no real functionality. This week’s Friday Five sheds light on some of the key features of Facebook’s hashtags. 1) The Big Reason Behind the Adoption [...]

RingCentral has upgraded its iOS and Android apps! Available today in the App Store and the Play Store, respectively, the latest versions of the RingCentral app include several cool new features. True mobile faxing For the first time, you can use your iOS or Android device to send a RingCentral fax. Just look for the [...]

Whether you have a RingCentral Fax, RingCentral Professional or RingCentral Office plan, you have the ability to send and receive faxes using your RingCentral account. You can use a variety of devices to send a RingCentral fax. That means your communiques aren’t anchored to a physical fax machine – although, if you have a RingCentral-provisioned [...]

Sunwarrior is an international nutrition supplement supplier for large chains such as Whole Foods, The Vitamin Shoppe and Health Smart. The company created a protein-based supplement that is organic, dairy-, soy-, genetically modified organism- and allergen-free. While the company provided the market with a popular niche product, they were losing business because of their out-of-date [...]

Entrepreneurs and business owners must maintain a high level of drive, inspiration and motivation if they hope to enjoy success. Luckily, many leaders have left us little snippets of motivation in the form of brilliant and inspiring quotations. If you ever struggle to maintain your motivation, inspiration and drive, keep these 5 quotations close by [...]

RingCentral’s new Support Center has lots of cool features – not the least of which is the Open a Case section. Open a Case lets you enter the details of your issue into the Support Center web portal. (Look for the black Contact Support button at the top-right corner of the page.) There’s no waiting on hold – [...]