TinderBox (proposal software)

TinderBox
Private
Industry Computer software, Business services
Founded January 2010
Founder
  • Dustin Sapp
  • Mike Fitzgerald
  • Kristian Andersen
Headquarters Indianapolis, Indiana
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
Products
Website gettinderbox.com

TinderBox is a global enterprise software company best known for its web-based sales productivity software. Proposal Automation helps to automate sales proposals and contracts is becoming increasingly popular among companies that manage frequent and extensive proposal writing projects. Such software allows businesses to automate the more routine tasks while easily tracking multiple versions.[1]

TinderBox is a web-based tool that can help with proposal generation by automating the creation, management, and tracking of your proposals. [2]

TinderBox sells its software as a service (SaaS) application for businesses to manage all aspects of proposal creation including: writing, formatting, management, approvals, redlining, and tracking all from within one simple online interface.

History

Established in January 2010 in Indianapolis, Indiana, TinderBox has become a provider of proposal management and content management solutions for companies large and small. The three TinderBox founders started the company based on similar experiences with the inefficient proposal process in other organizations they have worked in.[3]

End users access TinderBox’s cloud-based application through a web browser while the businesses marketing content and user data is stored on servers.[4] Proponents claim that TinderBox allows enterprises to get their sales teams to adopt Salesforce.com, improve manageability, reduce time spent generating proposals by 75%, and increase the close rate by 50%.[5]

Recognition

TinderBox made Entrepreneur Magazine’s List of “100 Brilliant Companies” [6] in 2012 was named the “IT Startup of the Year” [7] by Techpoint’s Mira Awards in 2012,[8] and was selected as one of the first recipients of the “Indiana Innovation Awards” [9] in 2011.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brusaw, Charles T., Gerald J. Alred, and Walter E. Oliu. The Business Writer's Handbook. New York: St. Martin's, 1976. Print.
  2. ↑ London, Jonathan; Lucas, Martin (2012-08-15). "Using Technology to Sell: Tactics to Ratchet Up Results" (Kindle Locations 3455-3456). Apress. Kindle Edition.
  3. ↑ Von Brockdorff, Marc. "TinderBox -€“ Create, Manage and Track Proposals | Webgeekly.com." Web Geekly, 1 Apr. 2010. Web. 13 Aug. 2012. <http://www.webgeekly.com/startups/tinderbox/>.
  4. ↑ Hall, Joshua. "TechPoint Mira Award Winners Draw Attention to Indiana's Innovative, Entrepreneurial High-Tech Industry -." Indiana Technology News. TechPoint, 14 May 2012. Web. 31 July 2012. <http://blog.techpoint.org/blog/indiana-technology-news-2/techpoint-mira-award-winners-draw-attention-to-indianas-innovative-entrepreneurial-high-tech-industry>.
  5. ↑ , Salesforce AppExchange, 8/9/2012
  6. ↑ Wang, Jennifer. "100 Brilliant Companies." Entrepreneur. N.p., May 2011. Web. 31 July 2012. <http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219674>.
  7. ↑ "2012 Mira Awards Finalists." TechPoint Mira Awards. TechPoint, 13 Mar. 2012. Web. 31 July 2012. <http://www.techpoint.org/finalists-2012>.
  8. ↑ "TechPoint Selects Mira Award Finalists." Inside Indiana Business, 13 Mar. 2012. Web. 31 July 2012 <http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?id=52665>.
  9. ↑ "2011 Winners - Indiana Innovation Awards." Indiana Innovation Awards, 27 Sept. 2011. Web. 31 July 2012. <http://www.indianainnovationawards.com/2011-winners>.

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