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eFax.com lets you receive all your faxes at your existing email address!
Easy to afford – In fact, it's free! No set up fees, no per-page charges, no hidden costs.
Easy to get started – Go to the sign up page, fill in theinformation, and get your personal eFax number. Easy to use – Customers, co-workers, friends or family members simply dial your eFax number to send faxes from their computer or fax machine. Easy to receive – eFaxes look and work just like emails with attachments. Just open the attachment in the eFax Microviewer and see your fax on-screen, print it out, or forward to other email addresses. It's that easy!
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-There are 700,000++++ WEBTV users out there and I love using EFAX and I love my WEBTV.
-1) Alliances: Don't you think Draper will put together a few meetings or "deals" with the other internet companies in his portfolio? Don't you think that being one of the hottest VC firms currently in the valley Draper, Fisher can get in to meet with AOL, Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, CMGI or any other internet company worth its salt? These guys do invest on a whim!
2) Valuation: At 7, the company is valued at $80 million or so. Don't you think that one or two major internet "portal" companies will see this and be willing to part with some of their lofty shares. Given that the efax
solution is technically superior to Hotmail, does a similar take-out valuation of $400MM seem implausable?
3) Competition: It's not there yet, although I'm sure that it'll come. If another company is offering such a service at a cost to subscribers, they lose. Period. So let's assume that competition is on its way. One thing overlooked however is that the name is ours. EFAX. What are they going to call a competitive service Efacsimile? IFAX (maybe)? Still EFAX has got the name, and that's worth a lot.
Think of it this way. If EFAX had gone public last week, what do you think the valuation would be? Definitely not lower! The company is currently underfollowed...but remember, that's what allowed you to get your shares at the price you did!
4) Technology: It works pretty darn well from what I can tell. I had to wait a few days for my number, but it's here now and working great. Just downloaded a 36 page fax with no complications whatsoever! Maybe it takes a few days to get a number, but the solution is there, now.
Invest and sit tight, my friends. This has the potential to make everyone involved big, big money.
Company Press Release
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 1999--Tim Draper, a leading Internet venture capitalist and managing partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, today announced a significant additional investment in eFax.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:EFAX - news), formerly JetFax, Inc.
Raising his stake in the company to over six percent signals a major endorsement of eFax.com's new strategic focus on the Internet. Earlier this month, eFax.com announced a strategic shift of the company's resources from advanced fax engines and multifunction products to Internet services and software.
The company's two new flagship products include a breakthrough, free fax-to-email service at www.eFax.com and HotSend, a software utility for capturing and sending email attachments with a single click.
An early stage venture capital firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson has backed a string of Internet bonanzas, including Hotmail, Four11, C2B, Preview Travel, and Internet Shopping Network. The venture capital firm was among the first to invest in the Internet.
Since 1993, the firm has invested in over 80 Internet startups -- more than any other independent venture capital firm. Seed investments from Draper Fisher Jurvetson have consistently sprouted Internet dynamos, many of which have successfully partnered with Internet giants like AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Inktomi, and Cisco Systems. As a longtime backer of the company, Draper says eFax.com is on the verge of explosive growth.
''eFax.com has a powerful business model, similar to Hotmail,'' said Draper, who is widely known for spotting trends in the Internet and online arena.
''The company has software viewer technology that is difficult to copy, years of experience with fax communications, and is offering the fax-to-email service for free to build the subscriber base. The combination of the eFax service together with their HotSend email capture software offer the potential to catch on like wildfire and rapidly build a 'sticky' member base similar to the Hotmail free email service,'' Draper added.
Hotmail, the world's largest email provider, has shown that a free subscription based service like eFax.com offers tremendous potential. Hotmail is the fastest growing subscription service in history and in its first two years of operation, it gained more than 10 million subscribers in over 220 countries.
''Draper has been a great, long-term investor over the years and has seen us partner with some of the biggest names in the fax industry,'' commented Rudy Prince, CEO. ''With this new launch of our Internet fax service together with the name change of the company, we're embarking on a whole new industry which will tie close to 100 million fax machines worldwide directly to the Internet.'' |
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