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March - 2007 - issue > Entrepreneurship
Scheduling Meetings, the iPolipo Way
Sriparna Chakraborty
When the clients or business colleagues you need to meet with are busy or traveling, you can wind up trading phone calls and e-mails for weeks in order to find the perfect time in your respective calendars, and scheduling group meetings can be a nightmare. On an average, it takes seven e-mails to schedule one business meeting, and executives estimate they spend up to 200 hours each year just trying to arrange their meetings with key people.
Hari Shetty and Rajesh Setty know all about this expensive problem – as high-tech executives, they dealt with it every day for years. Now they’re turning this business problem into an opportunity. The two longtime friends – they were schoolmates in India – have used their experience in enterprise software to design and develop a web-based service that will help busy executives schedule meetings. After fourteen strenuous months, their online calendar service is ready to launch – and so is their new company.
Connecticut-based iPolipo (“polipo” is Italian for octopus) permits calendar sharing over the web and dramatically reduces the time and cost of scheduling meetings across and within organizations.
Shetty and Setty bootstrapped iPolipo and ventured into a massive market anchored by software like Microsoft Outlook, which has about four hundred million mailboxes – but very limited capacity to share calendars between users. iPolipo makes the Outlook calendar selectively accessible on the web, powering some very productive interaction.
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