DropBox Collaboration Improved

The big idea

DoxBee is a system built on top of DropBox and designed to improve the DropBox document collaboration process

Problems of DropBox as document collaboration

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Problem 1: TrackingDropBox doesn’t track the collaboration path of a document and all the actions related to it

Problem 2: Comparing

It’s impossible to compare differences in content between documents

Problem 3: Searching

DropBox searches

documents only by

document name, not

by content

Problem 4: Email Integration

You can send emails from DropBox, but those messages are separate from the collaboration process

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Solution

Organizes the collaboration process in a timeline with an easy overview of all events

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submission approve

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Finalized version

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Solution

With DoxBee, we can compare differences in the content between any two versions of a document

Solution

With DoxBee you can search through content so you can’t get lost in a labyrinth of document versions

Solution

DoxBee adds email compatibility to the process of document collaboration

Extra Features for Businesses

Seamless inclusion of external collaborators

Easy adding, removing and managing accounts

No IT department needed for deployment

Market

Companies that already use DropBox for document collaboration

Enterprises that have deployed document collaboration systems on premises but will move to the cloud

CompetitorsAlfresco, Digitalbucket.net, Filocity and SkyDox

All of them are focused on storing, sharing and accessing files, not that much on the collaboration process and document content

Business model

Business $4.99 per user/per month

Personal $2.99 per user/per month

The business is profitable with 3300 paying users and a mix of 30% personal and 70% business users

What’s free? Trial period for companies, free for educational facilities

Traction and validation

DoxBee is chosen “Innovation Partner” by Macedonian Telekom, member of Deutsche Telekom AG

We’ve interviewed 15 companies and learned about their collaboration processes. We’re building the product around the knowledge we’ve gained from these interviews

Why us?

Gligor Dacevski founded 3 startups and the first one became the biggest software company in Macedonia.

Gjorgji Kjosev is a hard core programmer and recently wrote a book about HTML5

Kiril Jakimovski is the only one with financial education among the technological geeks

The future

Enterprise solutions over Windows Azure (with Active Directory) and S3 Amazon

Support for Box, SkyDrive, Google Drive

Tools for content management for more different types of documents, including merging of documents

Online editing and approving of documents from mobile apps

The ask

We’re covered until launch of version 1.0

We’ll need $500.000 to hire a sales and biz dev teams and an office in SV

DoxOutMarks i Engels st.1/5 – 17

1000 SkopjeRepublic of Macedonia

tel. +38972234456email.

gligor.dacevski@doxout.com