A New Beginning

Posted by George Northup: President, Memeo

I’m very excited to have recently arrived as the latest addition to Memeo’s management team in the role of President. Previously, I helped build four early stage software/service companies and took them all the way to IPO or exit. In the process, these companies generated in excess of $1 billion of cumulative revenues. I particularly relish the challenge and thrill of helping to take a promising, exciting company to the next level – and through the stratosphere. Also, I have a specific desire to be involved in products that have profound impact on our daily lives.

After successfully selling my last company in 2008, I took some time off to relax with my family and travel internationally. Plus, I used my time off to think about the next venture that I might pursue. In particular, I thought a lot about evolving consumer lifestyles and trends. Although I was increasingly approached by various companies about different opportunities, I kept hearing about an amazing company called Memeo. Through mutual acquaintances, I knew of founder/CEO Hong Bui, a brilliant visionary with prior successful executive stints at both Amazon and Apple. Eventually, Hong and I met in late 2008 and our initial conversation together triggered my enthusiasm about Hong’s vision to “Simplifying Your Digital Life.”

More than ever, individuals consume an exponentially greater mass of digital products and services. We are bombarded with rapidly expanding content availability consisting of photos, music, movies, videos, as well as the more “traditional “ content involving productivity files (PowerPoint, PDF, Excel, Word, etc.). Simultaneously, individuals use a widening range of digital devices, including multiple desktops and laptops, iPODs, digital cameras, handheld video devices, and mobile phones to access data.

We all want to access and experience the increasing content (whether it be family photos, music, videos…) and we want to sample or share the content through any device of our choosing. But how to deal with all this voluminous content, how to protect valuable files, how to access between different devices? In short, how to manage all this digital media? Managing digital media and all the various devices becomes a daunting task – in fact a huge potential headache and time drain.

This is where Memeo comes in. Memeo’s LifeAgent® Platform is a suite of digital media management software that simplifies everything so you can enjoy your content instead of worrying about administrating and managing it. Memeo provides an elegant platform to easily back up, sync, and share files across multiple devices and users. Most importantly, despite very sophisticated underpinnings to the platform (all under the hood), Memeo’s products are powerful, simple, intuitive, and easy to use. After using the products, it becomes effortless to manage your digital media and, in fact, you wonder how you managed before. It’s no accident that over 20 million users in 150 countries (and in 10 languages) have downloaded Memeo products.

In short, I believe that Memeo helps people manage their digital lives better as we will continue to see more and more explosive growth in yet to be imagined content and devices. I am passionate about Memeo and its mission to simplify digital life, and so I’m excited to be on this journey with Hong and his team.

Memeo Means Business

Posted by Piper Bartels: Product Manager for Memeo

Past history has shown me that organizations that take advantage of innovative solutions in hard times often come out ahead in the long run. This is a challenging period of time for any organization. The current economic slowdown has created pressure to cut costs, curb hiring and for employees to do more in the same amount of time. This creates pressure on IT departments to take care of expensive and time consuming chores such as backing up critical company data more efficiently and cost effectively. That’s why I’m happy to announce a new business product called Memeo Backup Professional. This new product should put a smile on the face of every IT administrator and their CFO’s as well.
 
Memeo Backup Professional is a one-stop backup solution for any small or medium sized business. It offers a new Management Console that helps simplify deployment and management of data backup across entire organizations though a unique self-serve functionality. IT personnel can simply add email addresses for company employees and Memeo will automatically send emails to them with instructions on how deploy the software. Memeo Backup Professional also allows employees to backup to both online storage or to local storage options that a company already owns such as hard drives or network attached storage. Best of all, this software is priced at $79.95 which most any company can afford – even in these difficult times. I encourage you to try Memeo Backup Professional to experience just how easy it can be to backup your company’s data.