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Dropbox

This web 2.0 tool has been voted as one of the most attractive ones for

entrepreneurs within Collaboration tools

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Dropbox Key characteristics

• Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc., that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, and client software

• Dropbox allows users to create a special folder on their computers, which Dropbox then synchronizes so that it appears to be the same folder (with the same contents) regardless of which computer is used to view it.

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Key benefits for entrepreneurs• As for web services, I can hardly imagine a world without the convenience

Dropbox any more, which is such a major time saver. Steven Don, Co-founder of TinyCert

• I think Dropbox has saved my life at least 20 times. I think everything in my life, digitally, is stored with Dropbox. Steven van Wel, CEO & Founder at Karma

• Dropbox for Business allows us to share data, in a secure fashion, just by sending a link. It speeds up the process of collaboration between our team and external third parties, and that definitely has made a difference.for us. Paul Doyle, Director of IT, Huge, Inc

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Key benefits for entrepreneurs• It’s great that something so fundamental to a business can be so simple

that you don’t need a dedicated person to maintain it. Between the infrastructure cost and a fulltime salary, our savings are definitely in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Kenny Van Zant, Business Lead, Asana

• In construction, the best way to maintain profitability is to keep overhead costs really low. Our overhead structure is one-half to one-third that of our competitors’, in part because of Dropbox. Richard Wetzel, Partner, Centric Projects

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How to use it effectively

• What is Dropbox? - Official Video from Dropbox

• Dropbox for Business customer case study: Pipers

• Dropbox for Business customer case study: Vita Coco

• Dropbox for Business customer case study: Centric Projects