I have tried to do as much research as I could on Dropmysite, I do think this is one of the best acquisitions to date as its genuinely growing very fast, just google search and you will find how many partners and clients they have won just in 2015
anyways hope this helps, its just simple google searches from their website and other links.
EXM really needs this DD to go through other wise we are in trouble, I am confident though DD will be good and the deal will go ahead!
enjoy
CEO Charif
Prior to joining the team, Charif held various positions in sales, marketing, operations and business development at Google and Dell. In the past two decades, he has worked, studied and lived in more than 10 cities around the Middle East, the USA and Asia Pacific. His last role was the head of business development for Google in Southeast Asia.
When Charif left google he was interviewed about the reason he left Google to run a start up business, have a read of this its really interesting (This was in 2013)
Ex-Google boss reveals reason of moving to a startup El Ansari takesover as CEO of DropmySite. Singapore Business Review recently caught up with ex-Google South East Asia Head of Business Development and current Head of EMEA for Dropmysite, Charif El Ansari. Dropmysite bills itself as Asia's fastest growing startup for attracting 630,000 users within 50 days of launch, faster than Twitter, Pinterest and Fab.com.
1. What makes you excited about your new position? What caused you to move from Google to Dropmysite?
It is great to take the helm of a successful startup and then work with the team on moving it to the next level. it is a great challenge to have. I wanted to work in a smaller company in the internet space, where decisions get made much faster and the whole team is working closely together. By the time I left Google, there was about 30,000 Employees. Dropmysite fit the bill really nicely, plus I believed in the model and the value proposition from early on and was one of the earliest investors.
2. What will you do differently in this position? What changes are you planning for? Honing our existing products, ensuring ease of integration with partners and launching our Dropmymobile Beta (mobile phone backup app)
3. What three goals are you focused on? 1st, further improve the user experience for our three products (Dropmysite, Dropmyemail and the soon to be launched Dropmymobile). 2nd, increase engagement with partners and resellers. 3rd, focus on operational excellence.
4. What are your key business philosophies? - Focus on the user and the partners - Have a capable and committed team - Enjoy what you are doing
5. What previous positions prepared you for this one and how? Working and living in several countries in Asia definitely helps. Working at Google surely helped, but very importantly, learning the importance of setting audacious goals for whatever you doing was a great lesson I learned at Google. Also Dell's execution - driven culture is something that I will always take with me. Lastly, working in various roles across various geographies made me a well rounded person fit for the current role
6. Anything else you'd like to add? I am glad to be back in Singapore, which is a second home to me, after being away for some time. I am also very glad to see a much healthier startup eco-system than a couple of years ag0
Udit Berlia Global Business Development manager
Udit has over 6 years of wide-ranging experience in IT and consulting industries across multiple disciplines such as software development, project and program management, presales, procurement and strategic consulting. He has assisted several large European telecommunication companies to develop and implement their Operations and Business Support Systems. He brings in extensive experience in process re-engineering and presales.
He has a MBA from IE Business School, Madrid (ranked in the top 10 of Financial times Global MBA rankings and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bangalore Institute of Technology. Udit education and networks will come in handy in broadcasting the message of backup websites databases, emails and mobile phones.
Ridley brings 20 years of industry knowledge to the Dropmysite Team. His previous experience are in the areas of sales, marketing, business development and operations where he specialized in search engine optimization, website marketing, website security as well as hard drive and software computer forensic duplication. His last role was as Vice President Sales of StopTheHacker, a leading website security company which was acquired by CloudFlare, Inc. Ridley continued with CloudFlare running StopTheHacker as General Manager.
couldn't find much on Ridley!
Ron Hart
Ron brings 25 years of software engineering experience to the team with over 9 years of providing technical leadership to startup companies. He specializes in high volume, high reliability solutions with a quick-to-market approach, leveraging open source technologies and an agile development process.
Dropmysite company history
John Fearon known as a serial entrepreneur created Dropmysite in 2010, when the business was only 9 days old they managed to win the following
80000 visitors
9000 sign ups
and this was only 9 days after opening shop in 2011
4 and a half years later drop my site has achieved allot and is in a phase of expanding to a new level
Dropmysite has the following features
Download backups with one click
Automated website and database backup
Secure Backup Storage
Website Performance Reports
Monitor Website Availability
Schedule backups
Restore Website and Database
Website Blacklist Monitor
View New / Modified files
Migrate Websites and databases
There are FREE services that claim they do what Dropmysite does but they don't do anywhere near the things Dropmysite does plus they do not have the support and are not guaranteed, Dropmysite has focused on its core ideas and for this reason has managed to attract larger clients from all over the world. (you get what you pay for!)
Dropmysite clients
By PR Newswire, October 27, 2015
HostMySite – a leading provider of web, VPS and cloud hosting services – has announced it will offer Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) powered by Dropmysite, a world leading cloud BaaS provider.
By Marketwired, March 23, 2015
Dropmysite Pte Ltd, a leading website, email and mobile backup service, today announced the introduction of its new Website Blacklist Monitor service that automatically performs health checks of websites multiple times per day and issues instant alerts in the event of a problem.
By WHIR, October 9, 2015
On October 1, 2015, GoDaddy added Dropmysite's cloud-based website backup for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Under the partnership, GoDaddy customers will gain self-service website and database recovery from Dropmysite's global platform.
By PCMAG, July 9, 2015
We would like to share with you our latest review by PC Magazine. “Dropmysite is a service that deftly combines website backup and monitoring, features you'd want if you're serious about your Web hosting.”- PCMag. On July 9, 2015, JEFFREY L. WILSON at PC Mag thoroughly reviewed our Dropmysite website and database product along with all its features. We are very proud of this review and we will continue to improve our product.
Dropmysite signs landmark deal with GMO Cloud, Japan's biggest cloud computing company
By Eguchi Shintaro, January 15, 2013
This multifaceted deal will see GMO Cloud invest in Dropmysite, resell its services to its Japanese base and collaborate in a mobile app.
There are many more clients and blogs you can see for your self when you DYOR at
the largest and most needed part of dropmysite is the resellers sector, if I'm understanding it correctly Dropmysite wins partnerships with large businesses and sells them monthly packages which including certain feature and support, the business then sells this service to their individual customers for a fee, also making profit, so it becomes a win win for both dropmysite and there partner.
they already have existing partners and if you look at the monthly pricing it looks attractive.
From what I am seeing 2015 was a great year as a lot of partners were won so 2016 is already looking to be a better year, the company seems to be expanding very fast, funding is needed to update and expand the backup system to move along with its growth.
.Dropmysite already operates in 100 countries
.Dropmysite / Dropmyemail has almost 1 million signups
.offices in 4 countries (US / Japan / India / Singapore)
.In 50 days, the product gained 525,000 users and Amazon Web Services awarded the Featured Startup of Asia Pacific to Dropmysite.
This is where it all started.
DSE Price at posting:
1.7¢ Sentiment: Buy Disclosure: Held
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