Young Entrepreneurs Love VSee!

Posted on December 21, 2012 by melody — No Comments ↓

Students from the National University of Singapore visit VSee – “V” for VSee!

Last week, a high spirited group of entrepreneuring students from the National University of Singapore (NUS) came to visit our office. As part of the NUS innovative Local Enterprise Achiever Development (iLEAD) program, they were on a trip to visit innovative companies around the world (like VSee) and be exposed to various startup cultures.

Milton, VSee CEO, shared with them how VSee was started and the thought processes that went into designing VSee to make it a simple and effective tool.

The students asked many insightful questions and gave us important feedback on our sign up process – overall a great session! They were impressed with VSee’s simplicity for getting work done in comparison with Skype, Google+ Hangouts, and WebEx. They were especially amused to learn that Google Venture’s chief designer wasn’t able to use Google Hangouts to do design work with his 100+ portfolio companies – since Google Hangouts is a great product, but not designed for creative people to get work done.

A second group of student entrepreneurs from China and Singapore also visited us on the same day as part of the Youth Entrepreneurship Alliance (YEA). YEA is an international non-profit organization established in 2009. It aims to promote entrepreneurship, leadership and business networking across different geographical districts worldwide.

One student, Lincoln, suggested we should take a group photo using the VSee video feed. This was the result!

YEA student entrepreneurs in a VSee call

A screen shot of YEA students in an HD VSee call

See how VSee is able to send 2 HD video streams for an immersive conference room experience. VSee’s bandwidth requirements are so low, you can get 2 HD videos for the same bandwidth of a single HD video in Skype or Google Hangouts!

iLead student entrepreneurs pictured:

1 Chin Fushi Vanessa
2 Chng Yi An
3 Gregory Chew Bo Wen
4 Hong Chengfeng
5 Lau Xin Ling
6 Lee Mei Yi
7 Li Yilin
8 Naomi Tay Yi Lin
9 Ni Xiqin
10 Nicholas Ang Teck Choon
11 Nur Iman Izam Bin Othman
12 Paul Antonio
13 Quek Yuen Xian
14 Rahul Rajeev
15 Shambavi Krishnamurthi
16 Srinath Nalluri
17 Suvrata Mohapatra
18 Tang Weigang, Mark
19 Yang Kai Ting
20 Jacky Yap
21 Ritesh Angural
22 Joshua Lurdes Newman
23 Lee Tun Leng

YEA student entrepreneurs pictured:

1 Du Yijun
2 Ren RuiYun
3 Lai Laifeng
4 Royston
5 Liu Linkun
6 Jiang Haiyang
7 Zhai Lizhu
8 Swetha Narayanan
9 Shen Shen
10 Chen Deshun
11 Wang Runyu
12 Diao Jing Wen
13 Zhang Qi
14 Zhao Lingfeng
15 Liang Jiawei
16 Guo Chi
17 Wu Guoping
18 Song Yupeng
19 Luan Qi
20 Li Shuting
21 Lu Tianshu
22 Sheng Lu
23 Qian Chen
24 Alex Zuo Xiao

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VSee Meets Gabon Ambassador Michael Moussa-Adamo

Posted on December 11, 2012 by milton — No Comments ↓

After returning from an awesome trip to Gabon where VSee connected Harvard Medical School to the Alfred Schweitzer Hospital (HAS), I had lunch with Gabon Ambassador Michael Moussa-Adamo in DC last weekend.

It was an opportunity to brainstorm ways to celebrate and share with the public the centennial of HAS’s founding in 1913. For the last 100 years the hospital has been on the front lines of fighting malaria, HIV/AIDS, TB, maternal and infant mortality, and providing much needed medical services to the people of Gabon. We came up with 3 ideas on how HAS can serve Gabon and Africa for the next 100 years – email me for these ideas

Also present at the lunch were Dr. Lachlan Forrow, President of HAS, Georges Collinet, famed Voice of America broadcaster, Norman Lutkefedder, President of SEED, Becky Wai, Director of VSee Medical, and Scott Johnson, Director at MTN GS.

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VSee Telemedicine for the Navy SEALs at SOMA Symposium

Posted on December 10, 2012 by anne — No Comments ↓

special operation medical association, SOMA symposium

VSee will be showing its extreme telemedicine capabilities at the 2012 Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA) Symposium and Exhibition, December 15-18 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida, in booth 800.

VSee Telemedicine requires less than half than bandwidth of Skype, Vidyo, and OpenTok, and is field-hardened for the most limited networks. VSee is FDA-registered, HIPAA-compliant via end-to-end 256 bit AES FIPS 140-2 certified encryption.

VSee won the American Telemedicine Association’s People’s Choice Award and was recently used in Gabon for remote ultrasound linking Harvard Medical School. VSee was also used in numerous disaster relief where the network is extremely poor.

Learn more about VSee Telemedicine and visit us in Tampa!

About SOMA

The Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA) is a community of military medics, civilian tactical emergency medical personnel, paramedics, doctors, nurses, dentists, veterinarians, tactical medicine and public health experts.

They annually hold the SOMA symposium at the Tampa Convention Center. The symposium allows military and civilian medical personnel to exchange the newest science, technology, and skills of unconventional medicine which increases survivability against the odds. It also conducts education and training for continued medical education units.

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VSee with GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt

Posted on December 5, 2012 by anne — No Comments ↓

Milton and Jeff Immelt, GE Chairman and CEO

Milton met with GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt at the GE Minds and Machines 2012 conference last week, where he also rubbed elbows with other leading technologists, business leaders, and academics including Marc Andreessen, Tim O’Reilly and DJ Patil.

Milton shared with Jeff that there are no tools on the market designed specifically for creative people to get things done – tools that augment the creative team process. For example, WebEx and GotoMeeting are great for sales presentations, while Skype and Google Hangout are great for hanging out with friends and family. However, If you were to use these tools for getting things done, you would pay a heavy collaboration tax (measured by the number of clicks it takes to do things) – and this tax can lead to huge productivity decreases.

In contrast, VSee makes performing common tasks one click in the creative process and therefore eliminates the collaboration tax. The message hit the right note with Jeff who noted that every enterprise has a productivity challenge – and that enterprises which can’t adopt to new productivity tools/processes simply die.

GE, in it is visionary style, is anticipating the future by scoping out partnerships in the Silicon Valley.

Milton also met up again with the conference keynote speaker Andrew McAfee (who coined the term “enterprise 2.0″). He and Milton had shared a session at The Atlantic’s Big Science Summit in October, where they talked about enterprise technology, and its impact on the future of work.

It’s amazing that they were able to get this jet engine into a small room for ~80 people!

Forbes on GE’s interest in partnering with Silicon Valley startups
GigaOm talks with Jeff Immelt and covers Minds and Machines 2012

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VSee for St. Martin Parish School District

Posted on November 29, 2012 by anne — No Comments ↓

For supervisors of technology Redell Louis and Kellie LeBlanc, video conferencing was a necessity. The question was how to get it.

As technology supervisors for the St. Martin Parish School District in rural South Central Louisiana, Louis and LeBlanc are in charge of ministering to the needs of 17 schools and 4 main offices in a district that takes 2 hours to drive from end to end. Meeting and coordinating the technology needs of all these schools would be impossible without video conferencing technology. A typical meeting for them includes 4 people in 4 different towns. Even with someone out sick, video conferencing allows them to still meet and get things done.

Desktop Video Conferencing Options

Like most cash-strapped public schools, a Cisco or Polycom video conferencing solution was simply out of St. Martin Parish’s league. They needed something that they could use immediately without going through a bureaucratic purchase request. They looked into using Skype, but Skype’s group video calling was not free. Then they looked into ooVoo, but it was blocked by the school network’s firewall which would have been a major hurdle to overcome. Then they discovered VSee’s simple video conference with screen share, and they haven’t looked back since.

Why VSee?

For St. Martin Parish, VSee was a simple solution for all their needs. VSee was easy to install and use. It required no administrative privileges and no backend set up or finagling. Within 15 minutes of discovering VSee they were able to get everyone they needed set up and using it like a pro.

The cherry on top was that VSee had all the features they needed right at their fingertips. VSee’s fast screen share is a favorite, and VSee’s drag-and-drop file send is, in the words of LeBlanc, an “AWESOME feature.” Before discovering VSee they had to use at least two separate programs – VNC for screen share and Skype for video calling, which also meant double the troubleshooting. With VSee everything is built into a single application. LeBlanc adds, “The [VSee] tool is so easy to use…everything is so self explanatory.”

VSee’s one-click call design is also perfect for fielding ad hoc video calls and meetings. Any of the principals and technology coordinators at their 17 schools, and even the district superintendent can easily reach Louis and LeBlanc anytime, allowing them to resolve those pesky technical issues that come up during the school day.

VSee at the LACUE Conference

They are so excited about VSee that they will be spreading the word about VSee at tomorrow’s Louisiana Association of Computer Using Educators (LACUE) Conference in New Orleans. LeBlanc and Peggy Hebert from Teche Elementary will be presenting a workshop to show other Louisiana educators just how easy and fast meeting online can be with VSee.

But don’t worry if you can’t be there. VSee is so easy to use, you can try it out for yourself now!

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Simple Video Conference and Screen Share

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