Location: Carrie Hafeman, FrontDoorSoftware, 33136 Timber Ridge Rd, Evergreen , Colorado 80439, United States

Stage: Revenue generating
Number of employees: 6-15
Short URL: vator.co/frontdoorsoftware

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Carrie Hafeman
CEO/Founder, FrontDoorSoftware Corporation
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Awards and mentions

September 2011 Vator Splash Winner

Colorado Technology Association Apex Awards Corporate Nominee

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release-service/219173 This section of the press release summarizes award: EVERGREEN, CO, June 17, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- FrontDoorSoftware Corporation has been nominated for a 2011 Apex Award in the category of Technology Company of the Year. The Apex Awards are awarded annually to the top technology companies by the Colorado Software and Internet Association (CSIA), or "Colorado's Technology Association." "We are thrilled to be nominated for the Apex Awards' Technology Company of the Year," said Carrie Hafeman, president of FrontDoorSoftware Corporation. "The CSIA and its members represent outstanding achievements and progress in software, technology, and the Internet, and it is an honor to be considered for this prestigious award." The Technology Company of the Year award is judged based on the following categories: current business activity, vision, innovation and differentiation, corporate responsibility, product and/or service offering, financials, and references. The awards ceremony will be held on July 12, 2011 at The Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver. "It is important to recognize the important people and companies who make technology one of the most successful sectors in Colorado," said Su Hawk, president, CSIA. "Every year the caliber of nominees is outstanding, and each should be very proud to be named." Featu

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Laptop security software offered on campus

Public Safety and ITS Introduce Free Laptop Recovery Software

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great progress recently. very smart founder and she is super persistant. i expect great things.

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FrontDoorSoftware

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Colorado, United States United States

http://www.frontdoorsoftware.com

A patent pending laptop tracking and recovery program combined with one of the most powerful targeted opt-in page view delivery capabilities ever! By moving delivery out to the computer ON button, every 15,000 users using our free version automatically generates over 1 million page views @ mo. and over 50 million page views @ user license lifetime!

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Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

Great news. Alamo Colleges in TX and Gwynedd Mercy College in PA signed up to offer FrontDoorSoftware campus wide. We are now offered to over a half million college students - see who at www.frontdoorsoftware.com/universitycustomers :) on May 14

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Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

We are exctied to announce that Univ of Baltimore and Utah Valley University are now offering our product campus wide. To see the over half MILLION students now offered our program please visit www.frontdoorsoftware.com/universitycustomers! on February 28

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Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

FrontDoorSoftware is excited to launch a new feature for K12 school districts. K12s will be able to protect their computers from theft and generate tens of thousands of dollars simply by turning computers ON! Please visit http://www.indiegogo.com/frontdoorsoftware and tell others on November 12

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Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

Great News! FrontDoorSoftware is getting massive traction protecting college student laptops! We now welcome our new customer Alabama A&M University. To see all the new schools signing up check out www.frontdoorsoftware.com/universitycustomers on October 21

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FrontDoorSoftware is excited to announce that University of California Irvine has signed up for our campus site license offering our program to its 28,000 plus students, faculty and staff. See all the schools now signed up at www.frontdoorsoftware.com/universitycustomers :) on October 18

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Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

FrontDoorSoftware is very excited to announce that Cornell University has signed up for a campuswide site license and will be offering the program to their 20,000+ students. To see some of the universities signed up, please visit www.frontdoorsoftware.com/universitycustomers.com on August 16

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Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

Welcome Manhattan School District., a new FrontDoorSoftware customer. We pleased to announce that we are protecting more and more computers in not only the university markets, but K12 as well. on May 16

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Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

FDS visited the Silicon Valley area last week and was asked to pitch at a VC Task Force event and again won! Thank you to Silicon Valley who is so supportive and sees the big picture of what FrontDoorSoftware is about - The new Front Door! Who doesn"t want to be first? on May 07

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Carol Ross at 02:15pm May 08

Great job, Carrie! Had not kept up on all that you've been doing and love seeing the momentum you have in being recognized by VCs and signing up university clients.

Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

We are happy to announce that Cal Berkeley has signed up for a university FrontDoorSoftware site license and will be offering our laptop security program to their 38,000 students. Visit www.frontdoorsoftware.com/universitycustomers to see more and more universities signing up! on April 25

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Bambi Francisco Roizen at 04:08pm April 25

Nice going!

Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

FrontDoorSoftware is proud to announce that Paine College has signed up for the www.frontdoorsoftware.com/universitycustomers program and can now offer laptop theft prevention and recovery services to protect every computer on campus. Welcome Paine College students and staff! on March 08

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Bambi Francisco Roizen at 09:38am March 08

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UCLA signed up for the www.frontdoorsoftware.com site license program and over 1,000 students signed up within the first 24 hours! More info at www.frontdoorsoftware.com/press on February 14

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Bambi Francisco Roizen at 09:16am February 14

Congratulations!

FrontDoorSoftware was featured in a VatorNews article: "FrontDoor Software presentation at Vator Splash SF"

Here's CEO and founder Carrie Hafeman giving her three-minute pitch and judges' feedback – Read more

Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

Brown University is reporting on-campus burglaries were down 42 percent last year from the year before! Part of this reduction is attributed to increasing participation in the DPS laptop tracking service. Read more at www.frontdoorsoftware.com - select the PRESS Tab on October 12

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Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

We are excited to announce that Howard University has signed up for a FrontDoorSoftware university site license this week, and will be offering our laptop theft prevention and recovery program to their 11,000 students, faculty and alumni. We are very excited to work with Howard U on October 06

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Bambi Francisco Roizen at 05:33pm October 06

Way to go. Congrats Carrie!

Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

We WON last night! We presented at the Vator contest last night and got the opportunity to show our product. The judges picked FrontDoorSoftware as the top company! Out of the 173 companies that entered the contest we ended up as #1. Thank you all so much for helping us get here! on September 30

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efrat kasznik at 10:02am September 30

Carrie - you did it! Great company, great presentation, way to go!!

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Duke Mc Phill at 06:02pm October 03

Congrats on winning.

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Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

We did it! We just found out that we have moved to the top 10 and will now be a presenter next Thursday. We are so grateful to all of you who took the time to vote for FrontDoorSoftware last week. Thanks again! Thanks so much! We will keep you posted. on September 22

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Carrie Hafeman (CEO/Founder)

We did it! Thanks to everyone who voted! We made it to the top 15 of 151 companies placing in a 3 way tie for 7th place. The judges will pick the top 10 out of these remaining 15 to see who will have the opportunity to present.Thanks so much everyone for taking the time to vote! on September 15

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Monica Paskvan at 03:32pm September 15

Congratulations Carrie! Good luck with the next round. Let us know how it goes.

Carol Ross at 03:42pm September 15

Fabulous, Carrie. I'm thrilled to hear that you've made it this far and hope you get a chance to present. You've earned the right to be there.

FrontDoorSoftware received a vote in the competition: Splash Competition San Francisco (Sept. 2011)

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Company description

FrontDoorSoftware is a leading provider of laptop recovery services in major universities. The patent pending product is already offered to hundreds of thousands of students in major US universities such as Brown, UCLA, UFL, etc and is protecting laptops in over 100 countries. Our laptop tracking and recovery program is combined with one of the most powerful targeted opt-in page view delivery capabilities online today. The program has 2 revenue sources- a paid licensing model, and a free model For customers who do not pay, there is a great opportuntity for a targeted ad model. By moving delivery out to the computer ON button, every 15,000 users automatically generate over 1 million page views @ month (as users log in 2-3 times a day). and over 50 million page views @ user license lifetime!. Ultimate customer capture with little to no attrition!

Other laptop tracking products are often stealth, pretending there is nothing protecting the laptop, and then they try to recover it after it is already gone. FrontDoorSoftware's patent pending product is unique and is designed to be visible to prevent the theft in the first place.

The program works with Windows XP, Vista, 7, Apple Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. The Android beta, iPad, and HP WebOS betas are due out soon. In addition to the university markets, the program is also used by consumers, corporate customers, K12 customers, healthcare customers, government customers, nonprofits are more.

The program can easily be set up to protect single users, multi-user accounts, and imaged for mass installs. The program is packed with features, like remote lockdown, Google Maps, Wi-Fi geo-location, changing recovery screens, and customizable yell for help features. The product is patent pending in the US and Europe.

The company is revenue producing and is self funded. The company is currently interested in outside investment and/or strategic partnerships.

Team

We have an experienced, well-rounded team:

1)Carrie Hafeman / Founder and CEO FrontDoorSoftware - Has 20 years of experience selling computer security products, and has exceeded over 10 million dollars of computer security product sales at Minatronics, World Computer Security Corp, and FrontDoorSoftware; CEO and founder of World Security Corp, one of 3 nominated for young entrepreneur of the year (quite a few years ago). Loves sales and marketing, and conceived of the product idea from listening to customers while operating World Security Corp. Kenyon College/PennStateUniv Grad

2) Conrad Farmer / Co-Founder - Colorado School of Mines Graduate , head programmer for FrontDoorSoftware - created product in OS versions in Windows XP, Vista, 7, Apple Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion. Android and Linux betas. Programming allows for single user, multi-user and mass installation ability. Additional database and server programming skills.

3) Ed Wilson - Advisor, Inventor, and CEO of Minatronics Corporation / Security and Computer Security expert with 8 patents. Dartmouth College Graduate.

4) Efrat Kasznik - Business Development for FrontDoorSoftware and CEO of Foresight Valuation Group. A Silicon-valley based intellectual property (IP) and valuation expert, entrepreneur and start-up advisor, with more than 15 years of management consulting and start-up expertise. Efrat helps clients, from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups, with their IP & business valuation and strategy needs. She teaches a class on IP Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) , and is a frequent speaker and author on Intellectual Property valuation and strategy issues. She has been a co-founder of 2 Silicon Valley start ups, and a CFO of a telecom start up. Efrat holds an MBA from UC Berkeley, and a BA in Accounting/Economics form the Hebrew University, Jerusalem..

5) Other team members include:

- Ingo Kabirschke (brilliant programmer, and Colorado School of Mines graduate)

- Patti Miller VP University sales (over 20 years of computer enterprise software sales including Siebel, Oracle, IBM and Sybase)

- Karen Thompson, VP customer success (over 20 years of computer software and enterprise sales)

- Michael Keba (bright, creative young entrepreneur)

- plus additional part time team members helping with social media, website management, etc.

Business model

FrontDoorSoftware has 2 potential revenue models - 1) licensing and 2) a targeted ad model.

FrontDoorSoftware initially offers its program for free, but has received hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue from upgraded versions, mutli-user licenses, as well as annual re-occurring site licenses.

For customers who do not pay, there is a huge potential for highly targeted ad revenue. The program features a Good Samaritan screen that appears with the computer ON button. Customers turn their computers on an average of 70 times per month. Every 15,000 customers will begin generating over 1 million page views per month, or over 50 million per license lifetime! The page view feature is not only incredibly mathematically powerful, but it can be highly targeted by exact location, user age, likes, equipment type and more.

Competitive advantage

FrontDoorSoftware is patent pending in the US and in Europe.

Our program is designed completely differently than virtually all of our competitors. Competing products are designed to be stealth, pretend there is nothing on the laptop, and then try to recover the equipment after it has already been stolen. FrontDoorSoftware is designed to prevent the theft in the first place, and alert a would-be thief that the laptop has a security program.

In addition, FrontDoorSoftware is different because it features a remote controlled Good Samaritan screen. Statistics from asset tag companies, suggest that up to 4 out of 5 people are actually honest. By providing ownership recovery information instantly with the ON button, equipment can actually be returned faster up to 80% of the time.

Because FrontDoorSoftware features this Good Samaritan recovery screen, FrontDoorSoftware is the only laptop computer security product on the market today that can be provided for free and still have the potential to generate revenue through targeted ads.

FrontDoorSoftware is patent pending in the US and in Europe. Our program is designed completely differently than virtually all of our competitors. Competing products are designed to be stealth, pretend there is nothing on the laptop, and then try to recover the equipment after it has already been stolen. FrontDoorSoftware is designed to prevent the theft in the first place, and alert a would-be thief that the laptop has a security program.

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FrontDoorSoftware at Splash SF
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FrontDoorSoftware was featured in a VatorNews article: "FrontDoor Software presentation at Vator Splash SF"

Here's CEO and founder Carrie Hafeman giving her three-minute pitch and judges' feedback – Read more

FrontDoorSoftware was featured in a VatorNews article: "Laptop security company FrontDoor wins Splash SF"

Indoor mapping startup BuildingLayer places first for the People's Choice Award – Read more

FrontDoorSoftware was featured in a VatorNews article: "And the Vator Splash SF finalists are..."

The top 10 finalists for #VatorSplash San Francisco – Read more