Mindquarry's commercial offerings end
Much to our regret, we must inform you that the company Mindquarry will stop providing commercial services and products. We could not convince our investor to keep financing our endeavour.Read more...
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Investor Relations
| Interview by Red Herring | |
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| |  A Red Herring Top 100 Europe winner, Mindquarry has been interviewed by redherring.tv. Watch our CEO Stephan Voigt explain our business strategy. |
Currently, Mindquarry is backed by Hasso Plattner Ventures (HPV). HPV holds a seed investment and supports us with counseling and networking.
Interested Investors
We are always open to meet investors, especially those with preferences for Opens Source software and/or modern Web software ("Software as a Service", "Web 2.0").
Because of our market strategy, investors who are either from or have relationships to the U.S. are also welcome to ask for information.
To get in touch with us, see our contact details.
Business Model
Our unique three-tier business model combines all the benefits of Open Source, traditional IT services and Software as a Service (SaaS).
| Open Source: high distribution | IT services: wide adoption | Software as a Service: global consumption |
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| To achieve high distribution among IT professionals, we provide free software downloads under an Open Source license, fostering a growing community of developers and creating a vibrant ecosystem with growing demand and supply. | To cross the chasm and to secure a predominant market position, we offer the full range of commercial services and support to customers who plan to integrate Mindquarry into their in-house IT infrastructure. | Mindquarry will be available as a consumer-oriented Web-native software on demand for a monthly subscription fee. The different prices and configurations will address the needs and budgets of SMEs as well as large enterprises. |
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Software Product
Mindquarry provides a powerful set of collaborative tools for use online and offline to streamline teamwork between information workers.
Features
- Work offline and at any time synchronize all your files and tasks as soon as you are back online. For example, manage your team‘s tasks while on a flight.
- An undo/redo for your team: Keep control of all changes in files and never loose older versions of documents.
- The Wiki can be used by your team as a collaborative whiteboard, mindmap and knowledge base.
Keep track of all email conversation within your team and have your attachments automatically added to the file sharing repository.
All of this is seamlessly integrated in one workspace for teams.
Technology
Mindquarry is developed in Java and built upon a scalable REST architecture, AJAX interfaces and Web 2.0-style interaction patterns. Our team uses and contributes to world-class Open Source projects.
Value Proposition
Mindquarry reduces the costs of information work which accumulate by using less professional makeshifts. It potentially eliminates 30% of wasted time* and additionally improves efficiency.
Market size
- 23 of America‘s top jobs** are purely in the field of information work.
- There are 9 million information workers as of today. Their figure will rise by 50% within the next decade.
Focus groups
Our software supports information workers in business areas such as management, marketing and R&D in organizations of all sizes. Hence, Mindquarry raises corporate productivity where the added value per employee is highest.
*IDC ** CNN Money.com
Competitive Advantage
Mindquarry has the potential to carve out a niche in the burgeoning Web 2.0 space due to its compelling unique selling points. Our competitors include Jive Software, 37Signals (Basecamp), Atlassian, IBM Lotus Connections.
Solutions to cost-intensive activities
Unlike its competitors, Mindquarry combines solutions to all of the most cost-intensive activities of information work (manage conversations, create documents, manage tasks) within one collaborative workspace.
New approach towards teamwork
Mindquarry provides a new approach towards teamwork and its feature set is inspired by social software (e.g. Wiki) and the international Open Source developers community (e.g. concurrent version control). Their tools have proven to be the most effective and inexpensive for modern collaboration.
Open Source disrupts the market
Our Open Source origins give the product additional ability to increase feature sets, build and cultivate a developer community and adjust rapidly to consumer demand - in many of the same ways that Linux, JBoss or Mozilla Firefox disrupt the market.
Company
Mindquarry has a predominant position securing a high Return on Investment. The team combines experience with a fresh approach.
Positioning and RoI
Being the vendor and trademark owner of Mindquarry products, Mindquarry GmbH can naturally prevail the central position in its market.
Team
Mindquarry was founded in mid 2006 as a spin-off of the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam, Germany, by Lars Trieloff (COO) and Alexander Saar (CTO). Stephan Voigt joined the international team as CEO (formerly Scopeland) and Sandro Groganz as VP Marketing (formerly eZ Systems).