It’s been 2 years since the inception of DotNext. A company dedicated to entrepreneurship and innovation. It’s been a long and tough road with all sorts of surprises, twists and challenges, but I am proud to say that the team of once 3 members is now near 100 strong and growing. Happy Second Birthday DotNext!
Our Vision
From the get-go our vision has been to create and grow ground-breaking Internet companies that challenge the status quo. Our goal has been to find areas where we can deliver new found value back to consumers and execute. And we’ve done that with some of the most innovative service products out there including LeapFish, iHype and up-and-coming Ziddler.
Hard Work
The team has worked extremely hard to build sophisticated applications and systems in record time, assemble one of the most successful sales forces in the country and navigate through some of the most brutal economic times we’ve ever faced. We continue to employ, we continue to innovate and we continue to take on the big risks that help push the envelope as well as stimulate our ailing economy.
Our People
Without our people DotNext is nothing. I am thankful to our people as they are our driving force and it is through them that we’ve been able to perform month after month and build a great company from the ground up. It is through their will, commitment, creativity, and relentless drive to build that DotNext has been able to produce the very companies it now operates. A big thank you to all of you.
And what a great culture we’ve fostered. From brutal ping pong tournaments, blowing off steam in Vegas, sweating it out in long go kart races to our day to day interactions with each other, I can honestly say we work hard, play hard and we all love to work here.
What We’ve Learned
We’ve learned that it’s a brave new world. From challenging market and economic conditions to online predators, we’ve learned of the new terrain that companies like ours will have to navigate.
The Future :
We continue to be excited at operating and growing our current companies, serving our clients, and developing our future products and services. We continue to grow rapidly while maintaining our profitability during these harsh economic times and look forward to a bigger and better 2009!
Ben Behrouzi
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December 18th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Question? I followed some of the leapfish updates, but what is Ziddler?
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December 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Ben, I am presuming by “online predators” you mean me and many of my friends?
Just so you know every attempt to call me “predator” on your blogs will be met with a fierce return- as you can tell by a post on my blog today. I have many things I can write about. But you really don’t want to go that way, do you?
By the way, I would not recommend to screw around with the this comment as it is being recorded by http://www.cocomment.com/ in real time, you will have real hard time proving otherwise.
Have a Happy New Year!
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December 27th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Sure, people contacted you. I am anxious to be surprised.
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May 27th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.
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May 29th, 2009 at 2:01 am
This is one good looking, sexy theme, love it! What theme are you using?
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December 18th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Alan,
Thanks for the interest. Ziddler is an up and coming service that we believe will really take off. Its unique and innovative and will arrive sometime in 2009. We will release more information as we approach its Alpha. Stay tuned.
Ben Behrouzi
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December 25th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Vlad if the shoe fits.
I’ve provided a clear warning to your lawyer. The hate emails, screen shots and testimonials from people you’ll be surprised that contacted us are all ready for publication and healthy debate.
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