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Doba Day 2008
We have a tradition at Doba. It’s called Doba Day. Their first time we celebrated it was around St. Patrick’s Day in (probably the whole green tie-in). Then we moved it to Oct to be close to Oct 22, the day we started the company in 2002.
It’s different every year, but generally, it involves: 1 part costumes/characters, 1 part bribes/gifts/treats, 1 part performances, and 15 parts pure craziness. We give awards, and generally have an entire day where not much work gets done, but the employees of Doba have a blast. It’s way cool, and 100% worth the day and its distractions.
Last week, Doba reached its 6 year mark. And we celebrated on Friday with this year’s version of Doba
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dobalash (dÅ-bä’lăsh’)
dobalash (dÅ-bä’lăsh’)
n.
- An antagonistic reaction to a trend, development, or event involving Doba.
- What happens if Doba doesn’t just stop it with all the awards and recognition: “The dobalash reached a new fervor with its recognition by Utah Business as Best Companies to Work For.â€
- The breakdown that will happen if Doba lets even a tiny bit of this go to our heads.
Doba was one of the companies that Utah Business has recognized as a 2007 Best Company to Work For (me, Blaine Nielsen, and Ashley Schaumburg were in the pic on the cover in front of our Doba Green wall). I have to admit I was impressed with the level of detail and the sophistication that Utah Business employs in the process of
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Work Elevated
Back in May, I attended a Utah Technology Council Roundtable with Governor Huntsman.
At the end of that session, right as the Governor was leaving, I interrupted and asked the pressing question that a lot of the CEOs in the room had on their minds: how do we get more talented and experienced employees to Utah? With unemployment rates in Utah so low, and business growth in Utah so hot, it’s a recipe for supply/demand problems.
At the time I suggested the idea of a coalition of Utah technology companies (through an organization like the Utah Technology Council) working with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development on a campaign to spread the good word about all the job opportunities in Utah ands our unique
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#23
I posted back in May about Doba’s growth from 2003 to 2006 of over 3,200%.
Last week, we found out that Doba has been recognized as the 23rd fastest-growing private company in the United States. The 2007 Inc. 500, as revealed in the September issue of Inc. magazine (on newsstands August 28 – October 2), also ranks Doba 2nd in the category of fastest growing software companies, and 5th in growth among companies intending to go public.
When I look back at the past almost 5 years, I always knew we were growing fast. But I didn’t realize how fast. Being ranked in the top 25 of the fastest growing private companies in the country, being the 2nd fastest growing software company in the
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3,206
That number represents Doba’s three year revenue growth percentage from 2003 to 2006. 3,206% It’s a big number. Actually, in terms of business growth, it’s a REALLY big number. What that means is that Doba has undergone extreme (one might even call it ridiculous) growth in the past 3 years.
This week Doba and I were featured in an article in Connect Magazine called The Dilemma of Growth.
The article also talked about fellow Utah entrepreneurs Lovesac (Shawn Nelson) and Omniture (Josh James) . Besides that it talks about Doba, you should read the article as is contains some hard learned lessons about managing growth. I’ve never met Shawn and Josh, but I ought to get together with them sometime to share stories about managing (and probably
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A Billboard’s Back-story
Anyone who’s been around me very much knows that as the CEO of Doba, I have a passion for treating our employees right. That passion is nothing I can take credit for. It just happens. It happens because Doba is staffed with talented, creative, and dedicated individuals who inspire passion and drive Doba’s vision.
We have a billboard along the I-15 freeway here in Utah. We use it for recruiting and for branding our company here locally. Currently, our billboard looks like this:
Recently, we named Ben Reece Doba Employee of the year. As a small (or not so small) token of our appreciation for Ben’s outstanding performance throughout 2006, we leased a Ford Mustang for him to drive for the year. Ben
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Go Team!
Because of my CEO title and relatively young age (I turned 32 last month), I am occasionally tapped by the business community as a business owner / entrepreneur to watch. Case in point… in the Fall 2006 issue of Utah Valley Business Quarterly, I was recognized as one of the Valley’s Top 40 Entrepreneurs Under 40.
On the surface, a mention like that may seem like quite an honor, but if you dig a little deeper, the honor itself pales in comparison to another article from the same issue of the magazine:
The above article, titled Go Team: Cheerlead Your Employees to Corporate Unity), highlights Doba’s efforts at creating a casual, fun, and challenging work environment. In particular, the two-page spread shines a
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