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Box

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After starting as a college business project in 2005, Box was officially launched in March of 2006 with the vision of connecting people, devices and networks. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. They say their platform “allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere.”

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  Box added Mamoon Hamid as Board of Directors. (12/1/07)
  Posted 9/14/11 at 10:42pm
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  Box added Michael Cardamone as Business Development Manager. (6/1/08)
  Posted 7/25/11 at 3:15pm
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  Box added Peter White as Director of Quality Engineering. (7/1/10)
  Posted 2/24/11 at 11:18pm
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  Box added Mamoon Hamid as Board.
  Posted 1/31/11 at 5:38am
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  Box added Dan Levin as COO. (8/1/10)
  Posted 8/30/10 at 10:12am
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  Box added Brandon Goldman as Software Engineer. (10/1/07)
  Posted 8/17/10 at 1:06pm
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  Box added Zack Turner as Sales. (6/1/10)
  Posted 8/6/10 at 9:53am
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  Box added Kenny Mendes as Strategic Recruiting Manager.
  Posted 11/4/09 at 1:32pm
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  Box added David Lee as Director of Product Management.
  Posted 4/20/09 at 8:21am
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  Box added Jen Grant as VP of Marketing.
  Posted 4/20/09 at 8:19am
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  Box added Jim Herbold as VP of Sales.
  Posted 12/15/08 at 2:37pm
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  Box added Josh Stein as Board.
  Posted 2/6/08 at 6:22pm
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  Box added Vasily Kilin as Lead Developer.
  Posted 7/17/07 at 5:47pm
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  Box added Karen Appleton as VP of Business Development.
  Posted 7/17/07 at 5:46pm
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  Box added Aaron Dunn as Director of Product Marketing.
  Posted 7/17/07 at 5:46pm
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  Box added Alex Scialom as Marketing. (1/1/06)
  Posted 7/17/07 at 5:45pm

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Above: Box Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 1/20/10

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Box.com

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Website	box.com
Blog	blog.box.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	July 17, 2007
Tags	file-sharing, backup, file-storage

Founded in 2005, Box.net provides Cloud Content Management for over 4 million users and companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Box.net’s dynamic, flexible content management and collaboration solution empowers users to access and share content online, and gives IT professionals unprecedented visibility into how content moves within their organizations and beyond.

The Box platform enhances productivity and collaboration with flexible workflow, full-text search, organic content discovery and trackable sharing at a significantly lower cost than traditional enterprise software services, and connects users to other best-of-breed cloud solutions - such as Salesforce.com and Google Apps - through its OpenBox platform.

There are a few different pricing options available: Personal (starting at 5GB free), Business and Enterprise - more info at http://www.box.net/pricing

Above: Box.com Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 9/16/09

Above: Box UI
Uploaded: 11/16/10

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1. techcrunch.com [edit]
2. box.net [edit]
3. PR Web (prweb.com) [edit]
4. Box.net Adds $7.1 Million In Funding For Digital File Storage (paidcontent.org) [edit]
5. Box.net Raises $15 Million To Take On Microsoft SharePoint In The Cloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Enterprise Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $48M From Andreessen Horowitz And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $81M From Salesforce, SAP At $600M-Plus Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. File Comments, Box Enterprise, and Twitter, and more! [edit]
9. LEAD411 LAUNCHES "HOTTEST SILICON VALLEY COMPANIES" AWARDS (lead411.com) [edit]
10. BOX.NET PARTNERS WITH PING IDENTITY TO BRING SINGLE SIGN-ON AND SCALABLE USER MANAGEMENT TO ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS (freshnews.com) [edit]
11. Box.net lands in Boston with $48M to burn (masshightech.com) [edit]