13 posts tagged “crossloop”

We are small and all this is BIG for us!

Read the article here - it hit the stands right on the day The Steelers win was reported.

We just announced another milestone for our startup with our Series B funding for $6M led by Venrock along with El Dorado Ventures (details on our corporate blog here) - needless to say but this is a very significant one for any startup, especially when it is one of the best firms (they were recently inducted into the Private Equity Hall of Fame) since it does many things:

1. Provides capital for resources to pursue your dream
2. Strong validation of your dream
3. Strong partner that helps you partner with others
4. More Knowledge and Experience from the collective repository of the firm
5. Specific Partner experience (in this funding, Rich Moran joined our Board - he is also the author of the best selling book Nuts, Bolts and Jolts) and one that is not 24/7 in your specific startup world and can help you look and focus on things objectively. Tom Peterson is the Partner on our Board from El Dorado Ventures.

More? Probably.... as I continue on the journey.  

Here is a very cool collage of the excellent coverage we received of our funding news:

ALL Series B funding Collage

Imagine: Its all about the start

For some quick context - Bill is the Head Technology Editor of Techrepublic, a CNET company, a CBS company... phew...and here is his demonstration of CrossLoop personally. Its the first online video I have seen with bloopers - a very neat creative touch by the folks at TechRepublic!

If you have not figured this out yet - we love em!! They were one of the very first who discovered CrossLoop waaaay back in 2007!

CrossLoop loves The Bill Effect and I personally do too since he got me back on this blog after a while......

Imagine: A Blog post a Day

Not sure if I have shared my cool badge from CrossLoop (Disclaimer: I co-founded this company), but if you are a technical expert, you, like me, will dig this.

It updates with every session of desktop sharing that I have while helping someone (a little like pilot logging hours to build his credentials) and of course, one can generate leads through the "contact me" on it. No Mom - this is not for you to contact me!

Imagine: Every expert could quantify his credentials and capture customer testimonials!

This is probably one of the most exciting days for my small company, CrossLoop - we have a free and simple desktop sharing product. We got recommended by Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal! He is a personal technology columnist and is probably one of the world's most respected one at that too. Apart from his column, The Mossberg Solution, The Mossberg Mailbox (where he responds to his reader's questions), he is also the Co-Founder of All Things Digital.

Here is the question and Walt's answer recommending us:

Walt mossberg

"Q. My mom is legally blind and has difficulty working with email and downloading files. I try to help her by phone, but it never works, and we live far apart, so I can’t just go over to help her. I would like to install an application on her PC where I can take over remotely from home. Do you have any suggestions for this type of application?

A. There are a number of possibilities. One very simple option is a program called CrossLoop, at crossloop.com. Some versions of Windows, such as Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Ultimate, also have remote desktop control built in."

As you all know, I am a big fan of the paper and read it cover to cover everyday - many of my posts here are result of articles that get me thinking [which does not happen very often, btw]. Apart from the excitement that he recommended CrossLoop to one of the Journal readers through the Mossberg Mailbox here, it was personally one of the most exciting days for me - I have been reading all his columns from the day I landed in the US in 1999!! Now to see my own company recommended by him is still a little unbelievable - I checked the column twice today to make sure it was really us!

Since as a product, our key proposition is ease of use to enable and empower anyone to leverage technology through people they know, this notice to "non-techies" at the end of each Mossberg Mailbox edition was very appropriate:

"Don't be embarrassed by your problems with computers. Just remember: you're not a "dummy," no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who, though technically expert, couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it."

And oh - Did I mention we have do not have a PR team or agency?

Imagine: Anyone can help someone [now isn't that social?]

Few people have this part of history in technology right - before Microsoft got into the Operating System business,  who was really in it, what happened when IBM came knocking on Digital Research's door and how Bill Gates took it all away.

It has all the elements of a Shakespeare plot. Here it is from the horse's mouth - Tom Rolander (CTO and my colleague at CrossLoop). Tom was one of the first to have ever designed the multi-tasking OS ever and was with Gary Kildall in the plane when IBM came knocking on Digital Research's door. It gives me tremendous pleasure to be associated with Tom and this part of history in technology.

The post by Robert Scoble is here and there will be more to this series - so here is Part I with Tom, I and CrossLoop:

I love how all of us can do wonders for others. Sometimes it is intentional and sometimes it is not, sometimes it be quantified and sometimes it can't. You, I.... we all make a difference.

Many of our CrossLoop users bring that terrific energy to us and many others globally. I love bringing that out - here is an exciting representation I have created to bring that energy and enthusiasm of a few of those people all over the world - they are indeed making it flat!

Here is a "My Maps" representation of it.

Imagine: Anyone can help someone

Which one do you like best? These are CrossLoop (if you ever need help or need to help someone on their computer from anywhere, do a product demonstrations or train someone on an application remotely) skins that we just released in our new version