Bidsketch was originally founded as single person company in south Florida on November 2009.
Since then, it's grown to help over 1,000 paying customers win millions of dollars in new business and save thousands of hours in the process.
When you become a customer you'll notice we focus on three things:
- Customer service — we work hard to keep you happy.
- Usability — streamlined to save you hours on each proposal.
- Education — we share specific tactics to help you win more business.
We focus on this because we know that it takes more than software to help you become more successful.
The Team
Ruben Gamez
Founder
Originally a software developer, Ruben bootstrapped Bidsketch while working full time and was quickly able to grow it into a profitable business. He spent several years working for a billion dollar payroll company where he learned what "PC Load Letter" means, and more importantly, why the proposal process usually sucks and how to make it better.
You can find him on Twitter at @earthlingworks.
Rajesh Sharma
Ruby Dev
Rajesh is a Ruby developer with plenty of Ruby on Rails experience. When he is not programming, he's fixing code written by Ruben; when he's not doing that, he likes to read and go on small treks around Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.
He can be found on Twitter at @deepredsky.
Ryan Scherf
Design/UI Advisor
Ryan is a web and product designer from Minneapolis. He's the founder of Osmosis; an app that simplifies the new client process for designers. He's also responsible for all of the great design work on Bidsketch.
He can be found on Twitter at @ryanscherf.
Rob Walling
Advisor
Rob Walling has been starting companies for most of his life and is author of the book Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup. His blog, Software By Rob, is a top 20 startup blog and is read by about 25,000 web entrepreneurs each month and he co-hosts one of the leading startup marketing and entrepreneurship podcasts called Startups for the Rest of Us. Rob also owns an awesome SEO keyword tool and the leading ASP.NET invoicing software on the market, in addition to a handful of other cash-flow positive products.
He can be found on Twitter at @robwalling.
Noah Kagan
Advisor
Noah is the Chief Sumo at AppSumo, which offers deals on web app bundles. He specializes in making things, eating burritos and kicking ass. Previously, he founded Gambit, a payment engine for virtual games. Before that, he helped launch Mint.com. Earlier in is career, he was one of Facebookâs first hire.
He can be found on Twitter at @noahkagan.
Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni
Advisor
Peldi is the founder and CEO of Balsamiq Mockups, which helps people build great software by letting them easily sketch out their ideas, then quickly collaborate and iterate over them. You can read about Peldi in these interviews, in this blog post about his story, or listen to some of his talks.
He can be found on Twitter at @balsamiq.