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Dan Mendell grew his last business — 1-800-Support, into a 750 person Oregon company.

dotCal, his latest venture, makes it easier for companies to manage online calendars, and it’s used by more than 70 companies so far.

Dan Mendell came back from an Internet conference in Paris confident about launching his new startup Internet calendar company, dotCal. Investors had shown interest.

The timing seemed right. “I wasn’t going to let anything stop me,” Mendell said.

Well I'm here in Pittsburg after flying all night experiencing 2 equipment failures.

Here with the greatest technical minds and engineers in the industry. Discussing many concepts including the effects of Active Sync and CalDav servers. Quite a bit of good testing, but windows continues to be a challenge to keep up with.

Talk to you more about it later.

Danton

Very interesting posting by Liz, I thought I I would share it with you all.

Thanks Liz...

Dan

As of April 1st the dotCal platform is now powered by a DaviCal Server platform written by our dotCal CTO Andrew McMillan.

Everything is quicker and slicker because our engine is lightning fast.  Expect to see a lot of changes in the coming months based upon this key functional platform.

DAViCal CalDAV Server is written by Andrew McMillan to create a straightforward CalDAV server for shared groupware calendaring. The project is written in PHP and uses a PostgreSQL database for backend storage.

We're excited to report that the wine industry is the latest business segment to embrace dotCal,our Internet-based calendar communications service, which offers a solution to event publishing and invitation needs. In recent months a number of wineries have begun using the platform, looking to enhance communications with their customers and entice these wine lovers to attend their various tasting events

From the launch of a beta version in late 2009 to a revenue generating business with paying subscribers in early 2010, it’s been a busy few months here at dotCal! We’re very excited to report that the hard work is paying off and as of today, we now have more than 50 partners utilizing dotCal.com, our Internet-based calendar communications service.

The great Pacific Northwest companies using dotCal range from nonprofits to retailers, wineries, health clubs and restaurants.  Some of our newest partners are: 

As an Internet-based calendar communication service, our job is to help companies stay top of mind with their clients, partners, families and friends. That said, we couldn’t be happier to be helping more than 50 Pacific Northwest-based non-profits to better communicate key event information and other details to their supporters, allowing them to increase event attendance and fundraising capabilities while bring attention to the great work they are doing.

dotCal is excited to unveil our new, simple calendar sharing and marketing program for businesses, non-profits and individuals! 

dotCal has just introduced its most asked for new feature, Advanced Event Recurrence. dotCal now supports: Every X {days,weeks, months, years} on {MOnday.Tuesdat... etc} until X times.

After a month of reconfiguration, dotCal beta reopens to new users.

Please enjoy this innovative platform. We look forward to your feedback. We look forward to hearing from you.