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Swivel, a YouTube For Spreadsheets!

As you might know, I run a company that focuses on providing outsourcing services to SMBs. A significant portion of our customers are WEB 2.0 startups located in the Silicon Valley who decided to outsource part or all of their engineering.

As a result, a substantial part of our corporate communication is geared toward these companies.

Hence the decision we made last year to sponsor HyveUp, a company that produces video clips where WEB 2.0 startups’ founders or executives share their stories and vision.

The companies interviewed are not necessarily our clients (actually only a very few are, bummer!), but I found interesting to share on my blog the vision and experience of these entrepreneurs who are living the dream of becoming the next Facebook. In fact, some of the interviewees are already well on their way, like Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder.

Let’s start today with Swivel, a company that was created in December 2005 by Dmitry Dimov and Brian Mulloy who wanted to create a place for SMBs to manage their data spreadsheets, share them internally or externally, and find great public data on the spot. A Youtube for spreadsheets!

I love the idea. I have been looking a million times around for templates of sales forecasts, cash flow projections, etc. Swivel is the place to go to find this information.

Go to HyveUp to read more about this story, and many more.

I will post regularly more Hyveup interviews.

Remi
www.outsourcing-vsc.com


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Posted by Remi on Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 9:53 PM.

13 Responses to “Swivel, a YouTube For Spreadsheets!”

Thanks for sharing this useful tool.

Left by The Blogger Tips on July 10th, 2008

This sounds like a really good tool. Thanks for sharing.

Left by Barbara on July 12th, 2008

Interesting. I haven’t seen anything like this before.

Left by frugalfergie on July 14th, 2008

What a cool concept. I haven’t seen anything like it before either, but with our company being coast to coast and having most of our meetings through gotomeeting, I can see where this would be very useful.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Margaret

Left by Margaret on July 15th, 2008

Very nice, I visited a similar site and downloaded a template to track my blog income on Excel earlier.

Left by James on July 17th, 2008

Very interesting site. I never seen any site like this before. The data provided is valid? Grenada country have the highest number of prisoners. Never heard of this country name before… It is a good site to share.. I have bookmark it.

Left by Atniz on July 18th, 2008

As frustrating as I sometimes find technology, it’s wonderful how much it helps people and business.

Swivel is a good example of sharing information through technology to help business increase their chance of success.

That’s what free enterprise is all about. The entrepreneur benefits by helping others.

Left by Linda Morton on July 18th, 2008

Numbers do make the world go around and something like this can help a small business compete more efficiently with bigger companies as they can outsource different elements and reduce costly overheads. Very interesting and potentially very powerful way to make crucial decisions.

Left by Helen on July 20th, 2008

thanks for sharing the information, swivel will definately go big

Left by Nairobian on July 24th, 2008

Thanks for that info – I love watching stuff like that.

Left by Sheila Sultani on July 26th, 2008

The idea of HyveUp itself is ingenious. Swivel is fantastic, but I was struck most by your HyveUp sponsorhsip – great idea.

Left by SocialMind on July 28th, 2008

it’s nice to hear this information..this is a useful one..:)

Left by glorie on July 28th, 2008

good tool indeed.. cool concept

Left by vignesh on September 2nd, 2008

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