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Happy New Years – OfficeDrop’s ScanDrop an App to Kickstart 2012

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

Tuaw, the “unofficial Apple blog,” has included OfficeDrop’s ScanDrop Mac scanner software as one of their “Apps to Kickstart your New Year’s Resolutions.”

The article says:

If you already have a scanner or multi-function printer but you’d like to move to cloud storage of your scans, give the $19.99 ScanDrop for the Mac a try. ScanDrop works with Evernote, Google Docs or OfficeDrop’s cloud service, but scanned files can also be saved on Dropbox or whatever other cloud service you utilize.

You can check out our review from March into a fuller look at the service. If you want to give it a try without dropping $20, the company offers the free ScanDrop Lite allowing scanning of up to 15 pages.

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves!

Get organized this year with OfficeDrop. It’s never been a better time to get your files into the cloud. You’ll feel much more relaxed once your important documents are saved in the cloud, and the anywhere, anytime access the cloud gives you will make you more productive this year!

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Small Business Trends Article – Don’t Hate the Launch

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

Prasad Thammineni, our CEO, has another post on Small Business Trends. This time the post is about launching products – in particular, launching internet products/services. There has been a lot of talk recently about how a company shouldn’t launch their new stuff, but instead should slow roll it out to the market. At OfficeDrop we’ve had a lot of luck launching products. So Prasad‘s piece is titled “Don’t Be a Launch Hater.”

He talks about how you can re-launch if you fail the first time, using our service as an example: “It’s foolish to think that your launch “coming out party” is your one opportunity for press, your one shot at greatness. People make the assumption that the spark from a launch has to be doused with a firehose if a startup decides to adjust its strategy. Nothing could be further from the truth. We launched several years ago as a mail-in scanning service. This year, we introduced apps that let people scan to the cloud themselves.”

Check out the article!

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Brief Press Mention in the Christian Science Monitor

Friday, December 9th, 2011

OfficeDrop was briefly mentioned in an article in the Christian Science Monitor about angel financing. Healy Jones (me) was quoted based on our experience raising capital from angel investors. Check out the article here.

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OfficeDrop in the Boston Business Journal

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

Kyle Alspach had a nice post today on OfficeDrop in the Boston Business Journal and the growth that we are making. It’s great to see important local reporters taking an interest in how our startup is going.

Kyle quotes our CEO, and the article says:

“OfficeDrop has since added apps for the iPad and Android, and allows easy storage and retrieval of the documents in the cloud, he said.

The company, which targets small businesses that must deal with large amounts of paper documents, had started to see traction about a year ago for the service, which has free and paid components, Thammineni said. But a partnership with Burlington’s Nuance to include the OfficeDrop product with printers and scanners has led the company to gain 60,000 registered users, up from 7,000 at the end of 2010, he said.”

Hopefully we can continue this strong growth! We are very excited about the engagement we’ve seen with our product recently and want to thank all of our customers for supporting us during this high growth phase of our company’s life cycle.

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The Cloud Makes All Services Frenemies

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

An important business philosophy that we have here at OfficeDrop is the concept of “Frenemies” – we will work with other services that would historically have been considered competition if it makes sense for our customers. It means that we value our customers’ workflow and actively look to integrate our cloud filing system with other online, cloud and SaaS services that our customers are using. Our customers are small businesses who want to move to a “digital office” and away from having their different work processes silo’ed into particular, proprietary applications.

What’s a Frenemy (or Frienemy, depending on how you spell it)?

We believe that the cloud has changed the way software will be used. Old, desktop software that wrote special, unique and proprietary files and that trapped your data are out. Remember when a file could only be opened by the program that created it? Well, in the cloud all the smart providers have open APIs, which means your data can now be pushed (securely, of course!) from one application to another – making it easier for you to get your work done. This means that our service may have to work with other online storage companies, or companies that have overlapping features. Should we be competing with these companies and avoid integrating with them?

No.

We can only survive if our clients WANT to use our service. They can get their data out at any time, so we need to offer the best paper-focused, searchable storage service we can – and let customers use other best in class services in conjunction with ours – like our FreshBooks document management integration. We’ve got an open API, and if someone who might be close in features wants to connect with our service they are very much able to create a tight integration with the OfficeDrop service.

OfficeDrop Articles on the Frenemy Concept

Prasad wrote about how competing in the cloud is making companies frenemies in TechCrunch. Today he penned one on “Building a Business Around Frienemies” for FastCompany.

Frienemies

Posted in cloud computing, Customer Satisfaction, Digital Office, discussions, Document Management, Entrepreneurship, Freshbooks Document Management, Market Research, OfficeDrop, partnerships, Press coverage, Product Features, Small Business | No Comments »

OfficeDrop on Makeuseof and More

Friday, September 30th, 2011

OfficeDrop had great write up on Makeuseof called “How To Use Your iPad / iPhone Camera To Scan Documents To PDF [iPhone & iPad 2]” by Steve Campbell. The article is almost a great case study and goes into detail on how the OfficeDrop iPad app can be used at a conference to scan and store paper.

Here is a quote from the article:

“Picture this. You have a really important meeting at work today, one that you’ve been up most of the night preparing for, creating documents, spreadsheets, and what not. You’ve been tasked with making digital copies of your physical notes to send to your colleagues to help prep them for this meeting, which starts in about two hours. If you were in a hurry and could only bring one thing to this meeting, what would it be?

If it was me, it would be my iPad. As for the documents I had to scan, well, that’s all been taken care of, because I used an iPad app that allowed me to take pictures of each of my documents and turn them into shiny new digital PDFs that I can organize and share with my colleagues at the click of a button. Sound convenient? Prepare to never need to keep a piece of paper ever again.”

Read How MakeUseOf uses OfficeDrop’s iPad 2 App to Scan

Here is some other recent press that we’ve gotten on our iPad app:

September 20, 2011

OfficeDrop Adds iPad Scanning Support

The application also supports taking, cropping and rotating photos that can be sent directly to OfficeDrop, useful for capturing handwritten notes, receipts and business cards on the go. Read About Using OfficeDrop’s iPad App to Scan

September 16, 2011

iPad Document Scanner: OfficeDrop

This free scanner app allows to store files up to 1GB. It is very easy to scan files to PDF using OfficeDrop. Read The Review of OfficeDrop’s iPad 2 Scanner App

Posted in Benefits, cloud computing, Customer Satisfaction, Document Scanners, iPad, iphone, Marketing, OfficeDrop, Paperless, Paperless Champions, Press coverage | No Comments »

BNET Says: OfficeDrop is How to Move Paper to the Cloud

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

We are really proud of a great write up we just got from Dave Johnson of the popular BNET technology blog. Dave’s piece is called “OfficeDrop: How to Move Paper to the Cloud.”

Wow! We couldn’t have said it better.

It’s great when a reporter with an important publication takes the time to use and review our app! That, plus our customer growth, makes us feel like we are headed in the right direction with the service.

Dave says, “Imagine getting a handout at a conference, which you immediately scan with your iPhone’s camera. The document is immediately stored online as a searchable PDF, and you can ditch the handout — one less thing to carry around. Once online, your documents can be organized, shared with others, and searched like a collection of files on your own computer’s hard drive.”

Please click on the link above to read the full article.

Posted in Benefits, cloud computing, iPad, iphone, Marketing, mobile, OCR Scanning, OfficeDrop, Paperless, Paperless Champions, Press coverage | No Comments »

Prasad Thammineni Post on Managing Your Company From Home

Monday, September 5th, 2011

Our fearless CEO, Prasad Thammineni, has another great post on tech tools to help you manage your business from home on SmallBizTrends. Why does this matter? Well, he’s recently had a child and has been managing the office from his home office recently!

I don’t think that keeping things going from home would have even been possible a few years ago before the recent technology revolution. Communication tools and collaboration tools are a lot more powerful and affordable than they’ve ever been. Prasad touches on some of the ones we use aggressively here at OfficeDrop to keep things going smoothly.

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