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Mindscape named #2 NZ Start-up

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I’m a bit late at posting this on our blog here but we were very pleased to see that Mindscape was named the #2 start-up for 2008 in the New Zealand Top 10 Start-up awards. It’s always nice to get recognised for the work we’re doing and are thankful to those that voted for us as well as our supporters and customers who have helped us to where we are :-)

Published on the New Zealand Herald Website:

Mindscape was founded in February 2007 by John-Daniel Trask, Jeremy Boyd and Andrew Peters with the intention of creating software products that “didn’t suck”. Tired of software feeling slow and bloated, they set about creating the tools that they, as software developers, would love to use – tools that were small, blazingly fast and effective.

Recognising the skills of the founders, Microsoft got in touch with Mindscape and enlisted their help to develop BackgroundMotion a technical best-practice open source application to aid other .NET developers worldwide in understanding how to best architect modern Web 2.0 websites on the .NET platform. This initial development work helped aid early profitability on top of the small seed capital the founders had provided at launch. Since this time Mindscape has released three products for software developers, continued to grow profits and revenue and has customers all over the world – including Fortune 50 companies.

Mindscape has achieved all of this with only three full-time employees and no external funding. They’ve been profitable since inception and continue to develop both the product and consulting sides of their business.

One thing I would like to add to this write up is to highlight the great work that Ivan has done as part of our team – both in leading our product development and helping out our customers in the support forums. His work certainly aided in achieving this award.

Thanks again for the votes.