Dropmyemail.com – A Fast Growing Cloud-to-Cloud Email Backup Solution

In a recent post on YourStory, we told you about Dropmyemail.com, a Cloud-to-Cloud email backup solution, signing up 500k Users in just 50 days of launch at a faster user adoption rate than Dropbox and Pinterest. We couldn’t help but wonder, will this be the next Big startup success story? To delve deeper, we caught up with John Fearon, Founder & CEO of the Singapore based startup Dropmysite, who tells us more about the venture and their plan for the future.

Hi John, briefly tell us about yourself?

In a simple sentence, I am a long time entrepreneur who found an affinity with the Internet. I have been involved with Internet businesses since 2003 and have worked at AsiaRooms and HSBC. I have a burning ambition to solve problems and overcome obstacles as well as challenge myself.

How did you get this idea to start Dropmyemail.com?

Our business started out as another venture (EatAds.com) that had a hosting failure, and we lost all our data. It was a hard lesson learned, and that sparked the idea for Dropmysite.com to backup websites. From there, we started getting requests to backup emails, and so, Dropmyemail.com was born on 1st March, 2012.

How has the traction been so far?

We now have over 600K signups since our launch of Dropmyemail.com from around the world. We began offering the freemium service on 1st March, 2012 and within days we saw great traction in new user adoption and the coveted hockey stick growth kicked in, the company has been adding close to 15,000 new users per day since then. India is a very big market for us with around 20% of our users coming from India.

John Fearon, Founder & CEO, Dropmyemail

Simplicity - Signing on is a simple two-step process: 1) Users register at Dropmyemail.com using Facebook, Twitter, or Google sign-in, or by creating an account; 2) they enter their email account details.

Auto-backup -The emails will be automatically backed up every 24 hours, so users need not worry about starting or monitoring back-up cycles.

Privacy and Security - Dropmyemail.com has no access to the stored data, while ensuring the highest standards of security, working with Amazon Web Services.

Flexibility - The service also offers a migration service that lets you migrate your emails from one email provider to another.

Tell us about the back-end technology and team behind Dropmyemail

We host our services on AWS. Our back-end is built on Ruby on Rails. We are now up to 13 team members and growing fast. We are hiring developers in Singapore at the moment. We are not currently hiring in India, but this could change. As mentioned earlier – India is a very big market for us with around 20% of our users coming from India. We are opening an office in Mumbai soon and plan to do some interesting partnerships.

We also plan to launch a merged email account that will have web and mobile app features within the next couple of months.

Check-out the video of John pitching Dropmyemail at the DEMO Asia 2012. They were also chosen as one of the DEMO Gurus of DEMO Asia 2012

YourStory.in wishes John and Dropmyemail the very best for their future.

To back-up your emails and try-out Dropmyemail, visit their site - https://www.dropmyemail.com/

“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”

This is a guest post by Hong Kong based entrepreneur Mikaal Abdulla. After working for 15 years the corporate world, Mikaal cofounded 8 Securities where he is the CEO. His journey has taken him through Silicon Valley, New York, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore and now Hong Kong. Mikaal holds an MBA from both Columbia University and the London Business School.

In this post Mikaal shares his experience of starting and running a ‘lean startup’. On April 3rd Mikaal will share his experience at the AWS Regional Premier Lean Startup Eve nt in a session titled ‘Success Story: A Lean Startup Journey to the Cloud’ .

Last week my team publicly launched our startup, 8 Securities. Full of ambition and fight, we started the venture with a very focused mission. That mission was to challenge traditional brokers and advisors by building Asia’s first socially networked online investing service. The consumer financial services industry in Asia is simply huge and attacking it head on excited and motivated us.

By creating a private social network & trading portal where fellow traders can share ideas, ask & answer questions, track community trends and trade on one screen, we have made a statement. Gone are the days when investing ideas only come top down from institutions, unreliable financial bulletin boards or from your even more unreliable Uncle. The future is about empowering the individual investor with the world’s most advanced Social Trading Portal and the power of transparency.

The idea was the easy part but executing it was always going to be the real challenge. Our technology strategy posed huge challenges not faced by the average software or consumer internet startup. How do we handle the heavy load of social transactions, global real-time market data & content feeds and trades sent to stock exchanges around the world and around the clock? Furthermore, we operate in a highly regulated industry where there is no room for error when it comes to client safeguards and record keeping. Only a lean, scalable and global solution would do. We would be dynamic where our competitors were largely static and encumbered by legacy technology and infrastructure. For 8 Securities, lean equates to speed and speed combined with customer insight is the killer of traditional industries.

Our very creative technical founders had a big idea. 8 Securities was to be born in the cloud. For any lean startup, the cloud simply makes sense for the following reasons. First, its ideal for rapid product iteration and deployment. Second, it requires no upfront cost and is a variable rather than fixed expense. Third, it scales globally. We felt our core competitive advantage would not come in the form of features, but in our ability to build a truly agile product and culture that was fast to learn, adapt and evolve. ”Lean” is as much a state of mind as it is a methodology and we stopped at nothing to build an environment that would empower us to deliver it.

On Tuesday, April 3^rd we will have the opportunity to share our story at Amazon Web Services “Lean Cloud, the Startup Revolution” conference in Sydney and via live webcast. We speak right after Eric Ries, the author of the “The Lean Startup”. We have adapted his ideas to our own business and circumstances. From the very beginning of our journey one quote he made has always stuck with me. “The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else”.

Note: YourStory is a partner of AWS Regional Premier Lean Startup Event.

MDYantra – Enabling Healthcare Omnipresence via Healthcare Ecosystem on Cloud

Staying healthy is an imperative issue and a buzzword amongst the human fraternity. Despite all the technological advancement made by human curiosity, the human aspect of leveraging and delivering information technology for patient care is not sufficient, even today. Healthcare deficiencies in the world are causing indefinite tribulations to human kind, which is further augmented by disconnected healthcare systems. Scarcity of medical experts in close vicinities has created difficulties for people in rural as well as urban India to access appropriate healthcare on time.

In light of the above, healthcare systems need reinstatement on a common platform. Thus, the initiative of integration of healthcare with information communication technology has emerged very strongly.

The Founding of MITYUNG

Founder, Narendra Singh

Born in Garbyang – the holy valley of the Himalayas in northern India, Narendra Singh Garbyal, Co-Founder, MITYUNG, is an innovator and entrepreneur. He started his voyage of innovations in information communication technology under the auspices of the Department of Science & Technology (Govt. of India), at Science & Technology Entrepreneurs’ Park in NOIDA, with MITYUNG, in 2009.

He had a pragmatic vision- to connect global human ecology through technological advancements for leveraging resources unreachable due to geographical limitations. Having had over 14 years of professional experience with companies like Fiserv and MD Synergy in the healthcare arena, Narendra found every gap that could be filled with technology and thus MITYUNG – My Indian Technology Young- was born.

“Since my childhood, I always liked the scientific component of medicine but my technological aptitude propelled my academics into engineering. At the same time, I always dreamt of starting a business with a high level of social responsibility,” says Narendra.

Tech Focus

MITYUNG, an Information Communication Technology company has a set of core technologies for cloud computing application development and has built MDYantra, a system to enable a global healthcare ecosystem on the cloud. Envisioning a global collaboration platform to enable healthcare omnipresence, this platform co-locates healthcare providers (physicians, hospitals, labs, and pharmacies) and consumers for integrated patient care services and enables communication amongst the medical fraternity.

Omnipresent Healthcare Ecosystem

MDYantra is used by the medical fraternity to automate their clinical processes, resulting in a 30% efficiency gain. Presently, over 100 providers and more than 30,000 Consumers are active on MDYantra. This platform also allows consumers (patients) to centralize their medical history and get healthcare access from experts, globally. It provides direct and universal access to prescriptions, reports, DICOMs and data to doctors and patients alike, and also integrates healthcare establishments. It helps consumers choose the appropriate doctor for them, thus enabling healthcare omnipresence for the masses.

MITYUNG offers MDYantra as a PaaS (Platform as a Service) for EMR, PACS, Medical Collaboration, Telemedicine, Patient Management System, Clinical Information Exchange and more.

MITYUNG is constantly evolving technologies to further strengthen MDYantra to bridge very gap in rural healthcare by enabling access to medical experts in urban settings.

Based on the growth of healthcare allied industries and other catalyst markets in India, MDYantra is designed to leverage usage scenarios by providing the initial innovation impetus and broadening market acquisition by leveraging industry growth. The present market size in India alone is estimated to be approximately 12 Billion USD and expected to reach 60 Billion USD by 2017. With the vision to enable global healthcare ecosystem for touching the millions of lives, to support their healthcare needs, Narendra’s voracious desire of social value generation as an entrepreneur, stands fulfilled.

More about Mityung on their website.

MintM: Smartphone Based Loyalty System Hosted on the Cloud

‘Customer is king’, a corporate cliché now, has been etched into the fabric of every business so deeply that most of the talks dealing with marketing start and end with it. Customer loyalty is one more buzzword for which a brand craves. MintM- short for Mint Money (money for the advertiser/company and minting rewards for the customer), provides affordable loyalty systems hosted on the cloud.

“From a company perspective, it allows them to not only attract new customers but also retain them.” says founder Sachin Garg.” The best part is that it works for both, online and retail business in the same manner.” adds Sachin. On the other hand, for the user, MintM is a mobile reward system where they earn rewards for shopping, referring and visiting places.

The Team

Sachin Garg, a B.Tech from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), started MintM after having worked in product companies like Motorola. Partnered by Vibhor Gupta, also from IT-BHU, he brings in the management skills on the table with his experience and an MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB). Owing to the complex nature of the technology, a few bright engineers were hired who quit well paying jobs at the likes of Nokia and Dell to work on MintM. The team size grew to 10 and constant efforts are being put in to add more features to the product.

Backing from the bigger Players

MintM has managed to get some big brands like HomeShop18, Cleartrip and Samsung on board. “The perception is that in India bigger brands don’t pay a lot of attention to startups but I believe that is changing.” says Sachin. Moreover, companies are now open to newer ideas and are willing to experiment.

The Offshoot from sms2cash

MintM came into existence as sms2cash but has rebranded because of plans to enter international markets in a couple of months. Sms2cash is a reference based platform which had a reach of 4 million people within 6 months of its launch. MintM is its superset in a way because it has some additional features which makes it more exciting. “One of the reasons for a name change was going to international markets as the US doesn’t use terms like sms, they call it texting. Mint is a term which has global appeal.” says Sachin.

The team at MintM believes their offering to be the next generation marketing and loyalty system because it veers away from Pay-per-click campaigns and brings in Pay-per-sale without a very tight integration with the merchant, be it online or offline.

While every company should aim to build loyal customers, loyalty is never so strong that customers can resist a competitor who shows up with a much stronger value proposition that gives customers everything they now have and more.

-Philip Kotler on customer loyalty

The MintM app is available for free on Android, iOS and BB here and more information on the MintM website.

Eduora: A 22 Year Old Attempts to Revamp ‘Learning ManagementSystems’

In India, one doesn’t generally hear about kids starting to code while yet in Grade 6 and coming up with a product of their own in their early twenties. Decoding the complex web of Learning Management Systems used by large schools, colleges and universities, 22 year old Nagarjun Palavalli wants to simplify and facilitate education.” These systems were designed to be used by IT professionals hired by colleges and not students and teachers – people who can derive the most value from it.” says Nagarj