May 23, 2021BroadSoft Secrets Revealed: Behind the Scenes of Sylantro AcquisitionBy Michael Tessler, Managing Partner One of the most sought after stories is the details behind some of the acquisitions we made at BroadSoft. Scott can share some of the integration secrets and post acquisitions surprises we encountered. …4 min read
May 16, 2021BroadSoft Secrets Revealed: Luck is Better Than SmartBy Scott Hoffpauir, Managing Partner In my last blog, I talked about the risks with making technology decisions that ensure your products are future proofed and have the longevity to survive in our ever changing industry. I gave an example of one of the things that kept me up at…5 min read
May 10, 2021BroadSoft Secrets Revealed: Face Doodle?By Michael Tessler, Managing Partner Continuing on the BroadSoft Secrets series, I want to shift gears and share some funny (and odd) moments. Beware! You might never know when I may feature you in a story. …3 min read
May 2, 2021BroadSoft Secrets Revealed: How Our IPO Went From Dud to Rocket ShipBy Jim Tholen, Managing Partner BroadSoft went public in June 2010. We had filed to go public that March in a ‘frothy’ IPO market but by June many of the prospective IPO’s had been pulled from the market because market sentiment had gone very south. …True North3 min read
Apr 25, 2021BroadSoft Secrets Revealed: Collecting the GarbageBy Scott Hoffpauir, Managing Partner When we started BroadSoft in 1998, we knew that voice networks were going to transition from circuit switching to packet switching. There were a bunch of companies doing gateways between the two technologies, using them for niche applications. …4 min read
Apr 18, 2021BroadSoft Secrets Unveiled: Napkin AcquisitionBy Michael Tessler, Managing Partner Part of BroadSoft’s success were the many acquisitions we negotiated with and closed. Many of you ask about some of the secrets around those acquisitions. To be honest, without the many companies we acquired, we would not have been able to grow the BroadSoft many…4 min read
Apr 11, 2021BroadSoft Secrets Unveiled: Connections #1By Michael Tessler, Managing Partner Connections became THE event every year at BroadSoft. We never expected to create twenty years of memories with our customers, partners, and our employees! When we organized the first Connections in 2003, we did not know how many people would show up. …4 min read
Apr 5, 2021BroadSoft Secrets Revealed: The BeginningBy Michael Tessler, Managing Partner Many people are curious how we started BroadSoft but let me start with how Scott and I first met. How We Met We met when I joined Celcore, a company building low density wireless systems for underserved markets. One day I can share lots of…Broadsoft3 min read
Mar 28, 2021Has Everything Become ‘As a Service’?By Jim Tholen, Managing Partner We have witnessed a pretty remarkable revolution in the software business to Software as a Service or SaaS. Stories abound on traditional software firms making (or trying and not making) the transition to SaaS as they compete with more native Cloud competitors. At BroadSoft we…Saa S4 min read
Mar 14, 2021The Rise and Fall of BroadWorksBy Scott Hoffpauir, Managing Partner A fews weeks ago someone asked me to help them with replacing a BroadWorks platform. My initial reaction was — wait… what? Naturally, I thought BroadWorks would be like the Pyramids of Giza and continue to be the wonder of the unified communications world. Apparently…3 min read
