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Member Spotlight: The Rabbithole

About our Company:

The Rabbithole is a technical services company. Our current focus is web application development. We also excel at web design, Linux and network administration, database design and maintenance and project consulting. We have worked in many different organizations that leverage IT differently. We are not interested in selling our customers something, but instead to understand and join their existing workflow.

One of the core points of our business philosophy is personal communication. With a decade of experience providing technical support to people who run the entire spectrum of technical understanding, we possess the ability to bring technology to your level. We work with our customers to provide them with solutions they need, instead of simply responding to their wants. 

Why We're Chamber Members

We became Columbus Chamber members because we decided from the beginning to focus on local companies instead of targeting the internet at large. This allows us to give a personal touch, a hand shake and a good feeling to our customers. Outsourcing is cheap and easy but we can offer value to organizations that extends past the immediate goal.

Fun Facts about my Company

• Our President, Shaun Brady, has over a decade of experience in IT.
• We do this for fun. It happens to be profitable in the information age, but this is our passion, not our job, and we produce only the best results.
• The Rabbithole employees do not consider themselves specialists. Our specialty is generality. We understand how systems work at all levels, instead of specializing inside a little box. Cross paradigm solutions are where we shine.
• We tend to use open source and standards compliant solutions. This allows our customers to avoid vendor lock-in and appreciate a more robust product. 

Featured Product/Service

What is a web application? A web application is a piece of software that is accessed through a web browser. Any time a website “does something," it is a web application. The classic examples are banking sites, shopping carts, and company intranets. There is usually a corpus of data involved, which is managed in a database.Can a web application help you? Do you have information to manage? Sales transactions, inventories, and customer records are all examples of information. Are you passing around spreadsheet ideas? Are you surrounded by paper records? If you answered yes to any of these, a web application might help out your business process.

For more information visit www.therabbithole.org/

2011 Small Business Leader Award Finalists: Adept Marketing and BringShare

Small Business Leader Awards Finalist: 

 In its 27th year, the Small Business Leader Awards honors leaders of small businesses who have achieved company success while contributing to the development of our community. Over the next several days, we'll profile the finalists. Recipients will be announced on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Small Business Forum & Leader Awards. 

Justin Spring and Danielle Walton
Co-Founders
BringShare and Adept Marketing 

“A focus on people, not money, makes a successful leader. Every business decision impacts either your employees or your customers, and a successful leader will always understand the impact on both.”

Award Category: Young Professional Leadership

Business Description: BringShare is an online tool that helps businesses measure their online marketing more efficiently and cost effectively. Adept Marketing is an Internet marketing firm serving small businesses.

Launched in 2011, BringShare has caught the attention of the technology community as well as investors. It is the first Ohio company invited to present this year at the nearly 20-year-old DEMO conference in Silicon Valley, the world’s leading launch conference for emerging technologies. The company has raised $1 million in Series A funding to help make BringShare a reality. Justin and Danielle founded Adept Marketing in 2007. The company provides promising start-up businesses, as well as established companies, looking to expand their online reach a predictive marketing approach that allows companies to invest in marketing and receive predictable results helping to minimize risk and speed growth trajectory.

www.marketingadept.com

bringshare.com

Time is running out to register for the Small Business Forum & Leader Awards. Go to www.columbus.org/sbfla to register and read more about the 20+ educational sessions. The Small Business Forum & Leader Awards are Presented by Commerce National Bank, Presenting Partner Columbus Business First, and Honorary Chair Mike Rosati of Rosati Windows.

2011 Small Business Leader Award Finalists: Dynamit

Small Business Leader Awards Finalist: Bobby Whitman, Principal and Technical Director, Matt Dopkiss, Principal and Director of Strategy, Dynamit.

In its 27th year, the Small Business Leader Awards honors leaders of small businesses who have achieved company success while contributing to the development of our community. Over the next several days, we'll profile the finalists. Recipients will be announced on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Small Business Forum & Leader Awards.

Bobby Whitman, Principal and Technical Director
Matt Dopkiss, Principal and Director of Strategy
Dynamit

"We're here because of hard work, luck, laughter, an incredible team and a burning desire to improve our business." - Bobby Whitman

"Columbus is our hometown. It's a great environment for our team to excel and grow our business. Our success is largely due to the support of the friends, family and business community that helped us build Dynamit to where we are today". - Matt Dopkiss

Award Category: Young Professional Leadership and Adapt & Innovate

Business Despcription: Dynamit is a contemporary digital consultancy solving complex business challenges with strategy, design and technology.

Dynamit was founded in 2004 by Matt Dopkiss and Bobby Whitman, friends who had worked together informally for several years as students. While in graduate programs (physics and mathematics, respectively), the pair had several opportunities that led to the creation of the company. Over the last seven years, Dynamit has defined itself as a consultancy with expertise in information technology, design and marketing. They take the responsibility for entire projects from strategy to design, development, integration, launch and ongoing support. Headquartered in Columbus, Dynamit works with clients throughout the United States and internationally spanning a range of sectors, including retail, healthcare, associations, business-to-business, professional services, start-ups and not-for-profit organizations.

dynamit.us

Time is running out to register for the Small Business Forum & Leader Awards. Go to www.columbus.org/sbfla to register and read more about the 20+ educational sessions. The Small Business Forum & Leader Awards are Presented by Commerce National Bank, Presenting Partner Columbus Business First, and Honorary Chair Mike Rosati of Rosati Windows.

2011 Small Business Leader Award Finalist: DataCenter.BZ

Small Business Leader Awards Finalist: Gordon Scherer, President & CTO and Paul Keinath, Vice President & CFO, DataCenter.BZ

In its 27th year, the Small Business Leader Awards honor leaders of small businesses who have achieved company success while contributing to the development of our community. Over the next several days, we'll profile the finalists. Recipients will be announced on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Small Business Forum & Leader Awards. 

Gordon Scherer, President & CTO
Paul Keinath, Vice President & CFO
DataCenter.BZ

"The number one thing to being successful: we listen to our customers. They will take you where you need to go."  –Paul Keinath

Award Category: EcoBusiness

Business Description: An energy-efficient data center providing communications services to government agencies, telecom providers and corporate users

Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, DataCenter.BZ's wholly owned five-acre campus maintains one of Ohio's largest collections of carrier, municipal and private fiber networks, serving as a critical point of interconnection among the carriers, dark fiber networks and last-mile providers in Central Ohio. Such connectivity, together with ample and redundant power sources, including dual power grid feeds and multiple diesel generators, enables DataCenter.BZ to provide enterprise-grade data center and telecom solutions-ultra-high-density collocation, diverse and economical carrier access, metro-area dark fiber, and virtual data center, hosted storage and related disaster recovery solutions-to a variety of regional, national and international customers, including major telecommunications network carriers, government entities, education and healthcare systems and numerous Fortune 1000 companies.

www.datacenter.bz

Time is running out to register for the Small Business Forum & Leader Awards. Go to www.columbus.org/sbfla to register and read more about 20+ educational sessions. The Small Business Forum & Leader Awards are Presented by Commerce National Bank, Presenting Partner Columbus Business First, and Honorary Chair Mike Rosati of Rosati Windows.

 

 

2011 Small Business Leader Award Finalist: Farah Majidzadeh

Small Business Leader Awards Finalist: Farah Majidzadeh, Resource International, Inc.

 

In its 27th year, the Small Business Leader Awards honor leaders of small businesses who have achieved company success while contributing to the development of our community. Over the next several days, we'll profile the finalists. Recipients will be announced on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Small Business Forum & Leader Awards. 

Farah Majidzadeh
Chairperson & CEO
Resource International, Inc.

"A good leader must have four things: vision, wisdom, passion—and you have to be a good listener. If you abuse your power, you’re not going to get anywhere."

Award Category: Diversity Leadership

Business Description: A full-service consulting firm specializing in creative solutions in planning, design, construction management and information technology

With her children off at school, Farah Majidzadeh was looking for a new challenge and began exploring business opportunities. At the same time, she accompanied her husband, Kamran, an OSU professor, to a conference in England where he was presenting a paper on pavement design. Kamran began doing research on the first generation of pavement testing equipment called Dynaflect and exploring is application in road maintenance. Farah decided to market the product and, in just two weeks, had her first two clients. And, with her contracts, she launched Resource International, Inc., a small technology firm from the basement of her family home.

 www.resourceinternational.com

Time is running out to register for the Small Business Forum & Leader Awards. Go to www.columbus.org/sbfla to register and read more about 24 educational sessions.