As you may have read on Monday’s blog post, uTest launched a new informational campaign to promote http://www.inthewildtesting.com. The web site – and associated social media channels, including a Twitter profile – are intended to educate forward-thinking technology leaders about the necessity, benefits and real use cases of in-the-wild testing.
We decided to launch it at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco because the very concept of in-the-wild software testing (versus traditional methodologies) is, well…disruptive.
Sure enough, TechCrunch Disrupt turned out to be the perfect event! There were more than 2,600 innovative, entrepreneurial-minded techies, investors and exhibitors (35% more attendees than expected) filling the halls of the Design Concourse Center from Monday to Wednesday. In its usual fashion, the conference itself attracted top industry-leaders such as Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, Marissa Mayer of Google, Vinod Khosla, and even Ashton Kutcher.
uTest hosted a ton of terrific activities over the course of the event:
Just in time to ring in the new year, we received another reason to celebrate here at uTest! uTest has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s top 100 Global award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from around the world.
You may remember when we were honored with the RH 100 North America award back in June. Well, the Red Herring Global editorial team selects the most innovative companies from the winners and finalists (a pool of 1,200 companies!) of its Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America Awards to be eligible for the global awards.
Check out the other category leaders who made the 2010 RH Global finalists list!
All finalists are selected based on their tech innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. Companies in spaces such as mobile, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech quickly rose to the top of the list.
The winners will be announced at the RH Global awards ceremony on January 26 in L.A., and Doron will be presenting uTest at the RH Global forum which runs from January 24-26, 2011. Shoot us a note if you’ll be in town!
Well, it’s that exciting time of year again! The nomination period for the 4th Annual Mashable Awards is half way over and uTest is up for Most Promising New Company.
First, I’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone in our community who has made the commitment to vote every day until November 29th. (Mashable allows you to vote once a day per category and the Top 5 per category will advance to the finalists round.)
Of course we don’t want you to vote just because we asked (although that’s okay too!), so here’s a quick snapshot of why uTest is the Most Promising New Company!
Since our launch, we have:
Built a global community of 30,000+ professional testers in 168 countries worldwide
Acquired hundreds of customers across multiple industries — from five-person startups to Fortune 500 co.s
Raised a $13MM C round in funding last month (to total $20.5MM raised)
Reported more than 75,000 software bugs, completed test cases and usability surveys
Completed more than 1,500 testing projects
Expanded functional testing offering, adding load testing & usability testing of web, desktop & mobile apps
So, what do you think? Does uTest get the honor of your vote? If so, simply CLICK on the image above, SIGN IN to Twitter or Facebook and click NOMINATE! And thank you for bearing with the quick uTest plug. We’d be thrilled to receive your vote!
What an exciting way to wrap up the week here at uTest. As we continue to grow (and by grow, I mean in all aspects, including cool customers, brilliant testers and amazing staff) and expand into new areas of testing, the most renowned awards organizations are taking notice.
Late last night in San Diego…after an extensive review of our track record and our CEO Doron Reuveni’s on-site presentation, uTest was selected as a winner of the 2010 Red Herring 100 North America Award. The list honors the year’s most promising private tech ventures from North America. The companies were selected based on their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition and financial health. Congrats to all other RH 100 winners, including our good friends at SOASTA!
This past Monday in Boston…uTest was also honored as an AlwaysOn East Top 100 winner, a list comprised of leading East Coast companies pioneering in cloud computing and SaaS technologies. uTest’s Matt Johnston was invited to present at the AlwaysOn East event (a.k.a. Venture Summit East) as part of a select group of top execs showcasing their technologies. Here’s the presentation below in case you missed it!
Thanks to all for following our adventures across the country this week!
Last year, we were psyched to take home the “Best New Company of the Year” for 2009 at the American Business Awards (a.k.a. The Stevies). This year, we’re even more fired up to let you know that the members of the Stevie Awards’ Board have named uTest a finalist in three top categories:
1. Most Innovative Company Of The Year 2. Best Blog in the Computer Services category (for this blog) and 3. B2B Communications Campaign Of The Year (for theBug Battle!)
Although we’ve made the shortlist, we definitely have our work cut out for us to bring in these big wins. Take the Comm Campaign category for example — we’re up against huge software leaders, including EMC and Novell. See the complete list of finalists here!
The American Business Awards are the U.S.’s premier business awards program. More than 2,700 entries in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration this year. The winners will be announced on Monday, June 21 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square/NYC. More than 600 execs from around the globe are expected to attend.
Let us know if you’ll be in NYC that week. We’d love to meet up and fill you in on the latest!
Boston Business Journal just announced their list of Best Places To Work. And with nearly 450 nominees and only 20 companies making the cut in the Small Company category (20-100 employees), it’s a tough list to get on. But we’ve never shied away from a tough competition, so we threw our hat in the ring. And lo and behold, we’re proud to report that uTest has joined this prestigious list of the best places to work in Massachusetts!
We’re stoked to be on a list alongside global heavyweights like Google, Microsoft, Ritz-Carlton, Comcast, as well as local startup legends like Carbonite and HubSpot. So, how did we do it? Well, from our open bullpen layout to our always-stocked kitchen to tweeting from the slopes, to a company outing that consists of climbing Mount Monadnock, uTest is not your typical company… even by startup standards.
Quick award update! Yesterday, uTest was recognized as a rapidly growing private company and SaaS leader by being named an OnDemand Top 100 winner (by AlwaysOn).
The list includes top SaaS and Cloud companies that demonstrate leadership among peers, success in the marketplace and innovative tech. We are honored to be listed alongside industry pioneers, such as SOASTA, LiveOffice and Wordstream.
The winners were selected from among hundreds of tech companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders based on a set of five criteria:
– Innovation
– Market potential
– Commercialization
– Stakeholder value and
– Media buzz
CONGRATS to all the winners!
We’ll be attending and presenting at AlwaysOn’s OnDemand event on April 20th @ HP’s Worldwide Headquarters in Palo Alto, where the Top 100 companies will also be honored. Check out how the program is shaping up!
Last week, we found out that our humble little Software Testing Blog won the Hive Award at SXSW as the top business software blog (here’s the slideshow and the PDF report). We’re honored to make this prestigious list, along with brands we love such as HowStuffWorks, Nokia, Nike, HBO and About.com.
Part of the reason this blog has been so successful in the past year is how infrequently we talk about ourselves (ugh, boring). Well, I’m allowing myself to break that rule briefly so I can thank the people who have made our blog what it is today.
Our in-house team (Stanton, Mike, Jenny and Peter) for their tireless efforts and talented writing about everything from mobile apps to social media to software testing to crowdsourcing trends.
Our guest bloggers from the uTest community who have written passionately about everything from mobile testing to QA in agile environments to the evolving roles of testers.
I’ll end this little Oscar speech before the orchestra starts playing me off stage. Suffice it to say, we love writing for you; we’ll keep scouring every corner of the world (virtual and physical) for fresh topics and angles about anything related to software; and we’ll keep reminding ourselves why we’ve had this success: we write stuff that you seem to enjoy reading. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Thanks to you, uTest blog traffic has more than doubled since the beginning of ’09. And since our relaunch in mid-May, we’ve use this space to share breaking industry news, testing events and meetups, uTest company info, and original content from around the QA industry through our guest bloggers and “Testing the Limits” interviews. That’s why we need your help to get the Software Testing Blog into the running for Mashable’s Open WebAwards in the “Best Corporate Blog” category.
So if you like the uTest blog, this is your chance to cast your vote and support uTest and our community. Here’s how it works:
I’m thrilled to let you know that last week uTest was internationally recognized, wining the 2009 WebAward for “Outstanding Website” by the Web Marketing Association.
A big thank you to our partner Boston Interactive for helping us incorporate a more human face to uTest’s website and revamping it to reflect uTest’s community-centric business model.
As you know, we relaunched our website back in May 2009, and four months later, we’re already receiving high honors for it! Now in its 13th year, the WebAwards is the premier annual website award competition that names the best websites while setting the standard of excellence for all website development.
During this year’s competition, more than 2,000 sites from 45 countries were nominated in 96 industry categories. Entries were judged on design, copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, and use of technology.
The new uTest website has enabled us to bring the real-world stories of our customers and testers to the forefront of the web experience to increase visibility into uTest’s global testing community of 19,000+ and enhance collaboration among software professionals worldwide. We’re honored to be among this year’s winners!
To see all 2009 award wins, check out uTest’s Awards Page!
As you may have read on Monday’s blog post, uTest launched a new informational campaign to promote http://www.inthewildtesting.com. The web site – and associated social media channels, including a Twitter profile – are intended to educate forward-thinking technology leaders about the necessity, benefits and real use cases of in-the-wild testing. 
Just in time to ring in the new year, we received another reason to celebrate here at uTest! uTest has been selected as a finalist for 
What an exciting way to wrap up the week here at uTest. As we continue to grow (and by grow, I mean in all aspects, including cool customers, brilliant testers and amazing staff) and expand into new areas of testing, the most renowned awards organizations are taking notice.
Last year, we were psyched to take home the “
Boston Business Journal just announced their list of 
Quick award update! Yesterday, uTest was recognized as a rapidly growing private company and SaaS leader by being named an 
Last week, we found out that our humble little Software Testing Blog won the 
