A Collection of Software Success Stories

HC Top Systems Success Story

Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:00:00 -0400

This month's Software Success story is about HC Top Systems. Read how this company grew into a money making machine. Top Systems was founded in 1997 when it obtained the republishing rights for WinZip. Today Top Systems is a Software Publisher in Europe. Top Systems works closely with the developers to market and sell their software, in Europe.

HC Top Systems Success

RITLabs Software Success Story

Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:00:00 -0500

Ritlabs SRL is a software company specialized in communications products. Users of Ritlabs software range from home users to government institutions, and wide spectrum of small and large businesses including Banks, Financial, Aerospace, Gas and Oil producers, IT software, and hardware companies. Since Ritlabs creation in 1994 their user base has grown to include thousands of customers. The following interview has been conducted with Stefan Tanurkov, who leads the development team and is a co-founder of Ritlabs.

RITLabs Software Success Story

Software Success Story: Abbyy USA

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:16:34 -0500

Dean Tang founded Abbyy USA after his previous company, Newsoft now a subsidiary of UMAX, went public in Taiwan. Abbyy USA was founded 5 years ago and is a fully owned subsidiary of Abbyy Software, a large software development firm in Russia specializing in artificial intelligence in the language field. Abbyy has been active in the industry for 15 years.

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Alawar Entertainment Software Success Story

Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:01:00 -0500

Alawar Entertainment was founded in 1997 by a group of Novosibirsk State University's students. Initially game development was a hobby, eventually the hobby became a steady job. Over the years Alawar's product line has expanded to include shareware games, PDA games for PocketPC and PalmOS and set top box games.

Russia's economic crisis in 1998 caused a great drop in prices on CD games. The prices of CD ROMs dropped to about $ 3-4.00 each, developers receiving only 10 cents for each copy sold

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MicroVision Development Software Success Story

Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:01:00 -0500

Jim Mayall an icon on in the shareware industry started a small software company in college, developing award winning grade book programs for the Apple II and PC. After college and working at a real estate software startup, he again struck out on his own.

In 1988 Jim Mayall and his partners at MicroVision Development began developing applications for the PC and Windows. They started as a pure development company. Licensing products to 3rd party publishers, never considering the possibility of marketing products on their own. This was generally before online sales were common, and software was primarily sold in retail stores.

Agnitum's Software Success Story

Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:26:49 -0500

Founded in February 1999 by Mikhail Zakhryapin and Alexey Elagin, Agnitum's first application, Jammer was released later that year. Jammer was initially released as freeware, it was used to remove trojan horses. Agnitum's initial intent was not to make money, but as the program's popularity grew and users requested feature enhancements, it seemed logical to begin selling Jammer.

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Paessler Tools Software Success Story

It started out in 1996; Dirk Paessler was looking for a load testing application. Unable to find one, he wrote his own tool. Within two weeks of cleaning it up and creating a web page, he had two customers send him $ 20.00 for the program. Dirk ran his shareware business part time for 4 years. Today with six applications, Paessler Software demands Dirk's full attention. With five full and ten part-time employees Paessler software has grown into a very successful business.

MJT Net Ltd Software Success Story

Marcus Tettmar has been developing software since he was a young student. He graduated from university with a computer degree in 1994 and has been developing software professionally ever since.

iolo's Software Success Story

In 1998, Noah left Unisyn and independently founded iolo technologies, LLC. Using much of what he had learned at Unisyn, he grew iolo into the multi-million dollar company it is today..

STOPzilla's Software Success Story

STOPzilla's growth statistics, by any standard or measuring stick are an unqualified financial success. STOPzilla, a fairly new kid on the block, entered the online software world in 2002, and in their first 9 months of business, amazingly generated revenus of $ 300,000. This was followed by a staggering 1000% growth in 2003, with sales coming in at 3 million dollars. This years projected growth is estimated to exceed 20 million dollars.