National Spending Journal – By Shoeboxed

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One great thing about being next to Duke University is that we get to sit in on a lot of national and international conferences about topics relevant to Shoeboxed. Today, I am sitting in on a conference about intellectual property and ecommerce, two things we are obviously interested in over here.

Conference website.
The people involved in [...]

We’ll I’m from Phoenix, which is about 4 hours from Las Vegas, but I’ve never been there. My parents aren’t really the Sin City type, so we never took any family roadtrips there or anything. So I was obviously insanely excited when Taylor told us that a bunch of us would be heading to Fabulous [...]

About a week ago, I got an email announcing that MTV’s The Real World would be casting in Durham today. After reading Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreak Work of Staggering Genius, in which he tells a tremendously entertaining account of his attempt to get on The Real World, I had always secretly wanted to try out.
I [...]

To continue the blog updates about Shoeboxed mentions popping up pretty much everywhere, we’ve been featured in Southwest Airlines’ in-flight magazine for this month. So if you’re traveling with Southwest anytime this February, make sure to flip through the magazine and tell the stranger next to you all about us. I would probably wait to [...]

I just got word that I will be interviewed on David Johnson’s CEO Spotlight radio show on Monday! His program airs on Dallas radio KRLD 1080.

 
We’ll be talking about organizing all your email and paper receipts on our current free Shoeboxed.com site, featuring the Receipt Mail-In membership for people that mail in their receipts to [...]

Well, we’ve never been shy about our obsession with Duke University. Most of us are Duke graduates, and some of us are current students there. So it made a lot of sense that when we wanted to get some photos taken of the team that we turned to Duke students. I mean, it was without [...]

I just wanted to let everyone know that we had a little problem with our email notification system today. Some of you got multiple copies of the same email, something we were obviously not planning on doing.
We have fixed the problem, and are working to make our email notification system flawless for future notifications, and [...]

I just used Shoeboxed in a fantastic way, and because I am really proud of myself, I thought I’d share. What else is blogging for, anyway?
And so I continue. Cory, the fantastic author of this blog last spring and summer, is in charge of Innovation at Shoeboxed, meaning he works with lots of complicated features [...]

This summer in Berlin, we worked all the time. Days would go by when I didn’t leave our apartment/office. I usually worked straight from 11 a.m. to 4 a.m. Those precious hours of sleep were spent on an IKEA cot. Needless to say, I was tired for most of the summer.
Now with some pesky classes [...]

What do we know about cinematography, acting, or lighting? Eh… not that much. But we know that we love TV and movies, and we figured we could do an alright job learning how to make some homemade videos.
And thus was born our online TV channel, shoeboxed.tv! Over the past couple of weeks we’ve put two [...]

The team has just returned from an amazing four-day trip to Amman, Jordan. We took a few friends and mixed fun with business — meeting with the members of the business community that invited us to Jordan and visiting some great tourist spots. It was everyone but Mo’s first time traveling to the Middle [...]

We’ve all headed to our respective homes for a couple weeks before making the big move to Berlin. Taylor is on car #3 and continues to make tracks across the country on his trans-American road trip. The stories are fantastic, and the pictures are even better.

At this point, we’re just excited to [...]

I hope you’re sitting down. The car… she’s…gone. The Tracer died a peaceful death on the streets of Delaware (which coincidently is where we’re incorporated!). She went to sleep and just never woke up. But it was for the best. With all the cars dying fiery deaths these days, we [...]

Cue up the polka tunes, find me a pair of lederhosen, and buy me a bratwurst with sauerkraut – ‘cause the shoeboxed team is headed to Germany! We’re packing our bags and heading to a nation where everyone hates inefficiency, loves the Fatherland, and has never been late for anything in their lives! [...]