Startup of the day: Teambox
Pablo, can you introduce yourself?
I am
a 23-year old spanish entrepreneur, aerospace engineer and programmer.
In the past I managed two start-ups for e-learning and helicopter
drones. Today, I'm a passionate Ruby on Rails programmer working
full-time for Teambox.
What is Teambox?
Teambox is an agile project manager. It's an open-source collaboration application for groups that takes a different approach at teamwork.
In
Teambox, collaboration is project-centric, rather than document-centric
(like Google Docs). Inside each project, members can share group messages, task lists and pages.
You can use it for free at http://www.teambox.com, and enjoy unlimited collaboration: Any number of projects, and unlimited uploads.
At what stage are you in your project?
Teambox
has been self-funded and Business Angel funded. We are currently
looking for a round B of capital to fund the growth and expansion of
the startup.
Teambox 1.0 has been online and running for almost a year. Teambox 2.0 is already in the works, featuring a group-twitter collaboration approach and many mobile apps: Android, iPhone, light version and XML and JSON APIs.
The whole project is open-source, and available as a free hosted service at http://www.teambox.com.
We have, to the moment, three quite active open-source contributors,
five people in our staff and some freelancers. We are currently based
in Barcelona, Spain.
Why did you join the Sun Startup Essentials program?
We
joined, introduced by Manuel Jaffrin, to benefit from the support
program. Every technology we use is open-source: Ruby on Rails, MySQL
and servers for our background processes. We've been interested in
scaling and new key-store database technologies, and we felt a partner
like Sun could be interesting for the future of our app.
What are the next steps for you?
After some weeks, Teambox 2.0 will be released as a major
breakthrough in collaboration software. It will then be time to market
and start offering the first premium services: invoicing integration
and installation support.
In the financial side, we're looking for our next round of funding and looking forward to offering live support to paying users.
Pablo, thanks for your testimonial and good luck for the future!
To get more detailed information, you can send an email to pablo@teambox.com
Posted by: Laurent Chiozzotto | Category: Generic
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