MindTouch said today the San Diego startup is on track to triple revenues in 2010, although no numbers were disclosed. The company, which was self-funded and bootstrapped by co-founders Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjorg, said today it has hired a new chief financial officer, Byoung Lee, and plans to add about 50 employees in coming months. MindTouch said it also has added hundreds of new customers including Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, AutoDesk, Panasonic, and Hewlett-Packard. MindTouch is developing a Web-based business collaboration and integration platform on a “freemium” business model, and competes with such rivals as Microsoft Sharepoint, Oracle, IBM Lotus, and SAP.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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