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OfficeDrop CEO in Boston Globe and Forbes

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Prasad in the Boston Globe

Prasad Thammineni, OfficeDrop co-founder and CEO, was recently quoted in the Technology section of the Boston Globe by tech journalist Scott Kirsner. Prasad spoke about Apple’s design, marketing and business strategy and how OfficeDrop has tried to incorporate some of these successful ideas into our strategy. As quoted in the Globe, Prasad says:

Prasad Thammineni, founder of the Cambridge-based document scanning service OfficeDrop, says he has modeled his start-up’s customer service strategy after what he has experienced at the Genius Bars inside Apple’s retail stores. “Our customer service reps have a lot of freedom to make sure the customer is happy,’’ Thammineni writes via e-mail. “They give out coupons, storage credits, and more.’’

You can also read Prasad’s entire email to Scott, where Prasad talks about how Apple has helped shape the work we do here at OfficeDrop. Scott also has other emails from well known Boston area founders on Apple and innovation here.

Prasad in Forbes via the AP

Prasad also had a fun weekend playing around with his new iPad - and chasing down the UPS driver to make sure he got it delivered to our office on a Saturday. Here Prasad Thammineni is mentioned in Forbes:

People could also “pre-order” iPads online to arrive Saturday. Prasad Thammineni did just that, but had to chase the UPS ( UPS - news - people ) guy down the block from his office in Cambridge, Mass., to get his iPad.

After playing with it for a few hours, his impressions were mostly positive. Typing on the on-screen keyboard wasn’t as comfortable as using a laptop with a regular keyboard, and Thammineni said he found himself using several fingers but not touch-typing normally. Still, he said, it was much easier to use than a Kindle keyboard.

But the weight of the device might keep him from typing on the go. Thammineni said that after about two minutes of holding up the device with one hand and typing with the other, it got too heavy, even at a mere 1.5 pounds.

Prasad, you’re famous!

OfficeDrop Featured on QuestionPro Blog

Friday, March 26th, 2010

It’s been a few weeks since we changed our name, and the change is turning out really well. Customers are happy with the new name and it has done wonders in better defining our business’ personality.

We learned a lot about changing a business’ name, and now you can see some of our process on QuestionPro.com. The article outlines some of the techniques we used to come up with our new name, and provides tips for businesses thinking of making a similar change.

Thanks to QuestionPro for taking interest in our name change and turning our story into a learning experience!

OnStartups Features OfficeDrop Name Change Techniques

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

As you know, we recently changed our name from Pixily to OfficeDrop, as announced in our name change blog post. Coming up with a new name was a challenge for the company, but we came up with a few techniques that made it effective, painless, and even fun.

We shared the details of our name change process with HubSpot CTO and co-founder, Dharmesh Shah, who was kind enough to feature it on his popular blog, OnStartups.com as the post How to Pick A Company Name: Tips From The Trenches.

If you’re curious about the details of how we chose our name, or are thinking about changing your own company’s name, we recommend that you check out our story on Dharmesh’s blog. We learned a lot about changing a company name, and would love to help others thinking of doing the same.

WebWorkerDaily Spreads the OfficeDrop Word

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

OfficeDrop and our FreshBooks integration was recently written up in an article featured on WebWorkerDaily which can be seen here.

As we noted in a previous blog post, OfficeDrop can now be integrated with FreshBooks with the OfficeDrop-FreshBooks app. We are very excited about helping people with their online billing, and others are starting to take note of the convenience this integration provides.

For example, we recently caught the eye of WebWorkerDaily, a resource site which is part of the popular GigaOM network and provides tips, news, and guides for people in web-focused careers.

We were fortunate enough to be featured on WebWorkerDaily in a post by the talented Aliza Sherman, who explained the notable features of both OfficeDrop and the FreshBooks integration. We especially liked her real-world examples that noted the benefits of a graphic designer attaching images right to an invoice, or a freelance writer sharing drafts with clients so that they can see progress right from the bill.

Since WebWorkerDaily is a great resource for the digital workforce, we are proud to have our very own article to join the ranks of pieces geared toward promoting productivity and making online careers easier.

Thank you to Aliza and WebWorkerDaily for spreading the word about OfficeDrop and our new FreshBooks integration!

Pixily Mentioned in VentureBeat and the Virtual Legal Assistant

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

OfficeDrop’s document management and document scanning solution has had a couple of great mentions in some good blogs.

VentureBeat

Brent Frei, co-founder of Smartsheet.com, and previously the CEO of Onyx Software wrote a piece for VentureBeat on the coming battle of “software portals.” Brent is discussing how businesses are becoming more and more comfortable using cloud based software, and believes that certain software providers (SalesForce, Intuit and Google) will become the dominant platforms where small businesses purchase all of their software products and services. Basically, different online software companies will develop integrated products that run on and are sold through specific large company cloud/distribution platforms.

As Brent discusses the Intuit Workplace and suggests small businesses “Round out your … Intuit Workplace with Document Management from OfficeDrop.”

The Virtual Legal Assistant

The Virtual Legal Assistant mentions OfficeDrop as a great way to get your law office organized for the new year. They suggest that OfficeDrop is a good solution for the “solopreneur” looking to manage a reasonable amount of paper documents.

Document Scanning to Boost the Economy

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

In a recent blog post, “Put Down that Shovel,” Andy Kessler criticizes government attempts to create jobs and stimulate the economy with hackneyed infrastructure projects (building roads and bridges). As a more productive alternative, he suggests our job production mirror the modern economy we now live in by shifting government spending toward more high-tech projects.

We were enthused to read that two of his ideas for high-tech stimulus included document scanning!

That’s right, document scanning is not only productive in your office, but for the nation’s economy. At least Andy Kessler, former hedge fund manager and author of “How We Got Here,” thinks so. Kessler suggests in his article that scanning student textbooks and medical records would yield great benefits. As the article states, scanning medical records would save time and money on an enormous scale. Another innovative project, scanning student textbooks could modernize education, and transform twenty pound backpacks into lighter, more high tech alternatives like the Amazon Kindle.

Other interesting and insightful projects include:

  • Wireless installation in streetlights

  • Fiber optic home installations for faster internet speeds

  • Protein sequencing for cancer prevention

  • Construction of the “smart electric grid”

Cloud Computing Presentation

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Anand Rajaram, one of OfficeDrop’s cofounders and our Chief Product Officer, spoke at Xconomy’s Cloud3 Forum on December 10. His presentation is now available on Xconomy’s web site. If you want to hear some of the things that were tweeted by people at the conference during his presentation, see our previous blog post!

Pixily’s Twitter Buzz From Xconomy Cloud3 Forum

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

OfficeDrop’s co-founder and chief product officer Anand Rajaram recently spoke at the Xconomy Cloud 3 Forum, providing some valuable insight on cloud economics and costs. Anand knows his stuff, and his presentation got people talking. Here is a list of what they are saying.

OfficeDrop Twitter Buzz at #xcloud

@DavidaDinerman: Hot topics at Xconomy Cloud3; security, accessibility, apps. OfficeDrop: “cloud will do to hardware what open source did for software.” #xcloud

@wroush: Anand Rajaram, OfficeDrop: Moving from device centric to data centric world. OfficeDrop talks to Intuit and Evernote. #xcloud

@joebiron: Anand Rajaram from OfficeDrop: to be in the cooud, your app needs to be stateless #xcloud

@cnolanMTLC: OfficeDrop Think beyond operations for the cloud. #xcloud

@bbuderi: #xcloud words of wisdom from anand rajaram of pixily: dont let cloud dictate your architecture; think beyond operations; backup!

@wroush: Anand Rajaram, OfficeDrop: Don’t let the cloud dictate your product architecture. Think beyond operations to testing, QA. #xcloud

@Iancelevy: #xcloud - OfficeDrop SAAS - Paper and digital docs converted to searchable, organized content mgmt.

@wroush: Our Oct 2008 profile of OfficeDrop: http://bit.ly/8ulNnK #xcloud

@wroush: Anand Rajaram, OfficeDrop: “What do we use the cloud for? Everything” - except the doc scanner and the kitchen sink #xcloud

@Carlosselonke: #xcloud. I will try OfficeDrop to put all my paper documents from the Sloan MBA in eletronic format. Hope it is cheap :)

@ConnorFee: #xcloud - OfficeDrop removes the file system for paper and non-paper documents. Send, upload, and Search. Cool concept - Google srch for my docs

@wroush: Interesting - Iron Mountain and OfficeDrop in the same morning - OfficeDrop’s digitization obsoletes IM’s original archival storage biz #xcloud

@Bbuderi: #xcloud OfficeDrop presenting. I’m thinking this is a great xmas present to a cluttered loved one

@Masschallenge: OfficeDrop CPO Anand Rajaram tells a compelling story for creating a google search for our own paper documents. #xcloud

@wroush: Anand Rajaram, chief product officer at OfficeDrop, quotes Larry Ellison saying cloud is “complete gibberish”; but OfficeDrop has canny SaaS #xcloud

@joanmgeoghegan:OfficeDrop says Cloud 2 hardware as OS 2 software #xcloud

@wroush: @anandrajaram Thanks, we were grateful to have such a big crowd for Cloud^3 — many great comments about your OfficeDrop preso. #xcloud

@ConnorFee: @anandrajaram Well said. Portability will be tough as cloud providers are clearly incentivized to lock customers into their platform #xcloud

@cnolanMTLC: @anandrajaram the cloud provides the ability to tap into a global workforce #xcloud

Great comments everyone. Thanks for the tweets!

Congrats to Our Friends at Evernote!

Monday, November 16th, 2009

evernotelogoCongratulations to our integration partner, Evernote, who has just announced a $10 million venture capital fund raise! Evernote is a great application and we’ve enjoyed working with the team there. In May, we announced our integration partnership where we help their customers digitize/store paper. The blog TUAW just did a great interview with Phil Libin, the CEO of Evernote; check it out!

Document and Photo Scanning Collaboration Interview

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Deb Lee, a well known professional organizer, recently posted an interview she had with me (Healy Jones, marketing guy @pixily) on OfficeDrop and ScanDigital’s collaboration to help small businesses and consumers scan their documents AND photos. Check out Deb’s interview and the discussion on OfficeDrop and ScanDigital here!

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