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Adrenaline Client Testimonials
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"The Adrenaline Group's strategy in partnering with clients during the
product exploration phase is an exponential improvement over the traditional
'6 weeks requirements definition approach' that most consulting firms use.
After 2 working days into the project, the Adrenaline Group began providing
visual demos of our new product. At that point I tossed my ambiguously
written requirements and let them help me focus on the most important design
aspects of the product - the stuff the customer sees. The Adrenaline
Group's approach is the design process of the new economy. Use it or
compete with those who do."
Kevin DeWalt, Online Product Manager
The Motley Fool, Inc.
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I am the founder of homefair.com, a web site for consumer who are relocating. Last October, this site was sold to Homestore.com as part of a package valued at $85 million.
In late 1998, we asked the Adrenaline Group to help with two projects to add new content to our site. One involved school information and one involved demographics. Both projects involved complex databases. Both projects were successful and are featured prominently on our site.
What impressed me the most about the Adrenaline Group was the way they took ownership of the business results, rather than passively respond to a specification. They took as much pride as we did in having the applications be well received by consumers. They also took pride in documenting their work. They offered suggestions for practices that we could follow to make our site more maintainable going forward.
Arnold Kling, Founder
HomeFair.com
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Adrenaline is the best friend an entrepreneur can have. Early on, they targeted crazy visionaries as their key customers. Now, you may ask, why should a company target customers who often don't have money, and when they do have it, may well run out of it before they can pay? The answer is that Adrenaline has the judgment to pick the winners and the talent to help them win.
Adrenaline fills a niche that has long been needed: combining the business savvy and risk taking of a VC, with the technical know-how of a high-end software shop. Yes, they love their customers -- enough to tell them what's what and not let them make the same old mistakes. Having Adrenaline on your team is a big leg up in beating your competition. Also, being associated with them helps you land money, as I can personally attest. While subleasing from them and daily absorbing the Adrenaline spirit, my company raised $11m from top-tier investors.
Finally, Adrenaline is run by good people who have stood by their customers through thick and the inevitable thin. In politics, if you want a friend, get a dog. In high tech, get Adrenaline.
Jamie Hamilton, Founder & Chairman
AnswerLogic, Inc.
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"The principals in the company now known as The Adrenaline Group served as employees of
FreeLoader while I was its CEO and later President. I know all of The Adrenaline Group
members and have worked closely with them on many projects over the last year. This team
of developers is the finest available in the DC area and among the highest caliber in the
country. During the development of FreeLoader and later a project code-named 'Guerrilla,'
The Adrenaline Group provided professional, expert software development. Furthermore, as a
separate group from the main office in San Francisco and San Jose, the Adrenaline Group has
proven their ability to operate autonomously as well as part of a team. The Adrenaline
Group has a proven track record for commercial software development (a rarity in the DC area)
in the fast-paced and turbulent world of the Internet and push media."
Sunil Paul, Founder and Chairman
Brightmail, Inc.
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eStudentLoan
"Information technology is no longer a tool to implement strategy. it is the strategy.
For me, The Adrenaline Group is more than just a qualified IT/Web and
database shop... they are one of my best business resources."
Brian Kraff, President & CEO
eStudentLoan, LLC
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"VarsityBooks.com is a leading online retailer and resource to the college market, and our web traffic has grown dramatically. The Adrenaline Group took our "starter" web site architecture and helped us design an industrial strength environment that performed flawlessly in our busiest buying season ever. The Adrenaline Group has consistently delivered to help us solve some of our most difficult technical challenges"
Maryann Bastnagel, SVP & Chief Information Officer
VarsityBooks.com
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InterQuery
"The Adrenaline Group's Internet software development expertise is unequaled
in the DC area, and they should rank at the top in the nation. Their
expertise in Internet technologies, and their deep understanding of the
marketplace is a unique combination that has proven invaluable to
InterQuery. In just a few hours, they suggested improvements that led to a
300% increase in the performance of our Java server-side application."
Bernard Ferret, President & CEO
InterQuery, LLC
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KnowledgeLink, LLC
"The Adrenaline Group played an essential role in defining and designing our PerSavant™ system architecture for Fall Internet World '97 and beyond. In only six weeks, they designed and built our interactive Internet Explorer 4.0 user interface, which uses the latest Dynamic HTML technology. The Adrenaline Group's start-up experience and entrepreneurial energy proved invaluable, encouraging us to focus on aspects of new product development often taken for granted or overlooked. 'Build your product to back up your sales pitch,' Scott always says. Best of all, they helped us build a product we could sell."
Ed Addison, President
KnowledgeLink, LLC
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Customer Insites
"Dear Adrenaline Group:
I am writing to commend you on the exceptional role that you provided in developing the Customer Insites Web site analysis system. The system, designed to be a prototype, has exceeded our expectations in terms of performance and capability. We have just completed a successful alpha run and are quite satisfied with the system's functionality. In addition, the technical and advisory support that you have provided throughout the development process has helped us make modifications and enhancements to the system needed to begin our Beta program.
"Your role as a technical partner has enabled us to move from a business concept to an early-stage business. We appreciate the proactive role you have taken in thinking through technical and business issues. I look forward to continuing to work together on further product enhancements and future versions of the software. We are off to a quite a healthy start, and appreciate the role of 'Adrenaline rush' in this process."
Leslie A. Williams, Principal
Customer Insites
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CrossMedia Corporation
"I wanted to let you know how impressed we have been with the performance of The Adrenaline Group. Just as you suggested at our first meeting, The Adrenaline Group is more than a software engineering firm, you are high tech entrepreneurs available for hire. Over the last ten years, Bill Livingston and I have employed a wide range of contractors, but The Adrenaline Group has most successfully embraced the early stage business needs of our company in addition to exceeding our technology requirements…. Our UniSage™ 'call your e-mail' system demands a sophisticated coupling of Web, database, e-mail, text to speech, automatic speech recognition, and distributed processing technologies. The Adrenaline Group has brought all these technologies together and is bringing our service to life exactly as we have requested. And, amazingly, you are a month ahead of schedule!"
Bob Nelson, President & CEO
CrossMedia Corporation
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