OfficeDrop was featured in a recent Christian Science Monitor article on how startups are creating jobs despite the recession and how high growth small businesses can help reduce America’s high unemployment rate. The article states, “Innovative entrepreneurialism has always been at the core of America. It may now be the best hope for the return of the country’s self-confidence – or at the least, for simply putting Americans back to work.”
The article profiles OfficeDrop (still named Pixily when the article was researched). The print article includes a great photo of some of our fearless scanning associates - check out the second photo! The piece says:
In the Boston area, a start-up called Pixily is growing jobs by helping small businesses ditch their file cabinets and store their documents digitally. Founder Prasad Thammineni, a serial entrepreneur from India, says he expects to double his payroll this year to about 20 employees.
“Being able to find information efficiently is the reason [businesses] find the service useful,” says Mr. Thammineni.
Like many entrepreneurs, he stumbled on the idea for a business while trying to solve a problem – figuring out how to store his graduate-school notes. But what defines an entrepreneur is turning an epiphany into a viable product. In this case it took some nimble software, developed by a Pixily cofounder, that offers a no-fuss way to process all the documents that clients mail in monthly.
These kinds of employers represent the spearhead of job creation, even if many of them fail. “There’s no question that they [high-growth firms] are critical to recovery,” says Rob Atkinson, head of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a think tank in Washington. “Their role in job creation is just so great.”
At OfficeDrop, we are happy to be growing and serving more and more customers. We hope other great startups will continue to hire and help the US get back on its feet.
