FixMeStick is pleased to announce that we ranked 33rd on the 28th annual PROFIT 500 list, the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. We’d like to thank all our customers for their continued support by offering 33% off a new FixMeStick or your renewal. Today only! Here’s how:
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We are happy to announce that FixMeStick is now available in all of Best Buy‘s 1,048 locations across the USA! This is exciting for us because purchasing a FixMeStick should be just like removing viruses: convenient and affordable, values that both FixMeStick and Best Buy share. Best Buy will be carrying FixMeStick’s Regular-3 PC and -PRO versions.…
What do you get for the tech dad that has it all? Virus removal with the click of a button!
With Father’s Day just around the corner, FixMeStick has the perfect gift for any dad to make this the best Father’s Day yet! All the great dads out there deserved to be treated like kings for all they’ve done for us. So it’s time to show your dad how much you appreciate him. Father’s day is only 24 hours but you can give the gift of digital security for a whole year!
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The following is an interview that Corey and Marty, co-founders of the FixMeStick, conducted as part of the International Startup Festival, hosted in Montreal.
How did you guys come up with the FixMeStick?
We’ve spent our careers in Internet endpoint security, and at our last company we saw every day how malware was consistently beating anti-malware and how it leaves people stranded.
So we heeded the call and lit out to build the FixMeStick. The principles underlying the FixMeStick are tried and true, and are no surprise to anyone in Internet security. The engineering challenge was how to get the principles to work on a mass scale for non-technical consumers.
Early in the first year of our startup journey, we became somewhat disenchanted with the FixMeStick, and tabled the concept for several weeks. We were concerned that as an investment we were too far afield of what was popular (mobile, social, cloud) within the startup and venture-capital community.
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We’ve spent our careers in Internet endpoint security, and at our last company we saw every day how malware was consistently beating anti-malware and how stranded that leaves people.
So we heeded the call and lit out to build the FixMeStick. The principles underlying the FixMeStick are tried and true, and are no surprise to anyone in Internet security. The engineering challenge would be to get the principles to work on a mass scale for non-technical consumers.
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