To recognize the fastest growing technology companies in Seattle, Lead411 is proud to announce the release of its “Hottest Seattle Companies” awards. DocuSign is honored to be included in Lead411’s “Hottest Seattle Companies” for our award-winning electronic signature services.

The Lead411 research team scours through 600+ press releases and business articles daily, including venture capital fundings, company launches, new office openings, customer press releases, and more. This information has given insight to which are the fastest growing companies in the U.S.

Lead411 created their “Hottest Companies” awards to recognize these fast growing companies in different geographic regions. This particular list originally started with over 700 companies and has been narrowed down to the top 55. Tom Blue, CEO of Lead411, shares his thoughts on the “Hottest Companies” awards:

We have been tracking fast companies for our customers for the past 10 years and we felt it was important to recognize these growing brands publicly.

How the Winners were Chosen
First, all companies must by in either the Software, Wireless, Internet, or Media industry, be a privately held organization, and be within the Seattle area. From there, each company must meet one or more of the following requirements:

• 100% increase in revenues over the past 3 years; OR
• Over $4M in funding in the past 2 years; OR
• 2X traffic gains to their website in the past 12 months AND over 1M unique visitors a month.

It’s an honor to be selected as one of the “Hottest Seattle Companies” – thank you to our customers, for using our service, sharing electronic signature with their colleagues, and providing us with feedback to help us provide the most trusted, industry leading electronic signature services.

Momentous Electronic Signature Achievements of 2010, to Date

After posting significant achievements in 2009 including 300 percent growth in paid transactions, DocuSign continues to experience accelerated adoption rates of its trusted eSignature platform. To date, DocuSign:

• Surpassed 4 million electronic signature users and exceeded 78 million eSignature events to date.
• Supports more than 30,000 customers from large enterprise organizations to individual professionals by consistently delivering 99.993% uptime.
• DocuSign customers include American Airlines, Banner Life, BECU, Dave & Busters, Dow AgroSciences, EDGAR® Online, e-Rewards, Equity Residential, iPipeline, LinkedIn, F5 and Yamaha.
• Spearheaded an industry-wide effort to move the FHA to formally recognize electronically signed third-party documents.
• Continues to expand business partnerships with PropertyInfo, zipLogix and other leading businesses, and was selected as a national sponsor for salesforce.com Cloudforce 2.
• Leads in innovation with industry nominations and awards including 2010 Hot New Company, Best New Product and Salesforce Best Partner App.
• Recognizes and serves specialized customer needs with exclusive tailored editions—DocuSign REALTOR® Edition and DocuSign for Salesforce, DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes and DocuSign for Salesforce Chatter Enabled.
• Dominates the SaaS-based eSignature market with an estimated 70 percent market share.

After posting significant achievements in 2009 including 300 percent growth in paid transactions, DocuSign continues to experience accelerated adoption rates of its trusted eSignature platform. To date, DocuSign:

• Surpassed 4 million electronic signature users and exceeded 78 million eSignature events to date.
• Supports more than 30,000 customers from large enterprise organizations to individual professionals by consistently delivering 99.993% uptime.
• DocuSign customers include American Airlines, Banner Life, BECU, Dave & Busters, Dow AgroSciences, EDGAR® Online, e-Rewards, Equity Residential, iPipeline, LinkedIn, F5 and Yamaha.
• Spearheaded an industry-wide effort to move the FHA to formally recognize electronically signed third-party documents.
• Continues to expand business partnerships with PropertyInfo, zipLogix and other leading businesses, and was selected as a national sponsor for salesforce.com Cloudforce 2.
• Leads in innovation with industry nominations and awards including 2010 Hot New Company, Best New Product and Salesforce Best Partner App.
• Recognizes and serves specialized customer needs with exclusive tailored editions—DocuSign REALTOR® Edition and DocuSign for Salesforce, DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes and DocuSign for Salesforce Chatter Enabled.
• Dominates the SaaS-based eSignature market with an estimated 70 percent market share.

We’re excited to announce that zipLogix, the leading electronic real estate forms provider, integrated DocuSign e-signature service within the latest release of zipLogix zipForm® 6. A new online forms product for real estate professionals, zipForm® 6 allows real estate professionals to subscribe to and easily deploy DocuSign directly from within the zipForm® 6 application. zipForm® 6 offers users unparalleled convenience with a library of pre-tagged real estate forms by state, readymade to send with DocuSign for electronic signature. Partners in the National Association of REALTORS® REALTOR Benefits® Program, DocuSign and zipLogix have joined forces to help real estate professionals save time and greatly simplify the real estate contract signing process, increase client satisfaction and accelerate deal close rates.

Walt McDonald, chairman at zipLogix, shares his thoughts about the benefits of the zipLogix and DocuSign integration:

Given this tough economic climate, real estate professionals are looking for a competitive advantage that delivers immediate business benefits. zipLogix electronic forms are convenient and a real time saver for real estate professionals. DocuSign offers fast, easy and secure eSignature services. Now with DocuSign integrated within zipForm® 6, our members can leverage the benefits of zipForm® 6 and DocuSign in one, convenient application.

DocuSign and zipLogix® 6 eSignature Solution At-a-Glance

zipLogix electronic real estate forms are pre-tagged with convenient DocuSign Sign Here and Initial Here tabs. Users access the form and simply deploy DocuSign within zipForm 6.

Figure 1. Creating a DocuSign eSign account is quick and easy from within zipForm® 6.

Volumes of real estate forms, including lengthy disclosures, are pre-tagged for quick electronic sending and signing. Real estate professionals click the DocuSign button and clients receive an email notification, adopt an e-signature and complete the forms in minutes. Plus, with DocuSign, the e-signing process is even easier and faster with DocuSign’s Designed for Mobile capabilities, which provides clients the ability to sign anytime and anywhere from any mobile device including Apple® iPhone® or iPad®, RIM® BlackBerry®, Google® AndroidTM and Windows Mobile®. Using zipLogix and DocuSign offers a competitive advantage over slow, traditional printing, faxing and ink signing methods.

Figure 2. Pre-Tagged Forms Library provide an advantage to zipForm® users: signatures are automatically inserted into real estate forms on the correct signature lines to coincide with their role in the sales process. As shown in Figure 2, Seller Two is aligned with the Seller Two signature line. Signers and tabs are color coordinated to provide clearly defined correct signature placement of all signing roles in the transaction.

zipLogix will offer pre-tagged real estate forms for 41 states. Initial rollout of zipForm® 6 will include the integration of DocuSign and the pre-tagged forms library for the states of Arizona, California, Texas and Georgia. Dave Thorpe, business development director at DocuSign, shares his thoughts on our partnership with zipLogix:

By accelerating the signing process, DocuSign provides a competitive advantage to close deals faster. DocuSign saves real estate professionals hours of time and provides their clients with anywhere, anytime e-signing convenience. This partnership between DocuSign and zipLogix offers a significant game changing tool for real estate professionals to succeed in a volatile market.

More than 20,000 real estate professionals have used DocuSign to accelerate their business, with thousands more subscribing each month. DocuSign real estate subscribers achieve higher sales, increase client satisfaction and maintain a competitive edge. Rather than driving across town to get a signature or inconveniencing clients to find a fax machine, real estate professionals use DocuSign to execute agreements with buyers and sellers electronically, eliminating the old process of printing, faxing and waiting for the return fax. As more than 95 percent of home buyers have Internet access, but less than 10 percent have fax service in their homes, DocuSign saves agents time and money while providing client convenience. Clients can electronically sign real estate forms using any Web browser, and documents are legally binding, backed by a comprehensive audit trail.

Electronic Signature Pricing and Availability

Pricing and additional product information can be found on the DocuSign Web site by clicking here.

To view a demonstration of the product, visit the DocuSign booth #816 or zipLogix booth #1801 at the 2010 REALTORS® Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo in Washington, D.C., May 12-14, 2010.

So who ARE we anyhow?

Dave Thorpe, Director of Business Development and Director of Real Estate Services

Dave is responsible for developing strategic business opportunities in the Real Estate, Contract Management and Credit Union industry segments. Dave also has primary responsibility for DocuSign’s web subscription business and affiliate marketing programs.

Dave works with key partners like zipLogix and LPS Real Estate to develop integrated solutions with their forms and document management applications to provide streamlined solutions for Real Estate professionals. These integrations help agents eliminate time consuming activities associated with managing and transporting paper to obtain legally binding signatures.

With these integrations, agents save significant time and expense while electronic signatures make the signing process easier for their clients. Dave also works with a number of Associations on ways to provide members with entry level access to DocuSign as a member benefit.

Loren Alhadeff, Director of Sales

Loren Alhadeff manages DocuSign’s account executives to help them identify needs within organizations and demonstrate the impact electronic signature will have in addressing those needs. Drawing from past successes, Loren and his team help companies understand what future success may look like should they adopt DocuSign’s e-Signature solution.

Loren and his team help determine the level of commitment that will drive the highest level of success as well as set up new partners’ DocuSign subscriptions.

With real estate, Loren and his team help organizations, brokerages, and offices that support real estate professionals realize the role DocuSign can play to improve each professional’s business. When all agents in an office use DocuSign, everyone saves time and operational costs decrease. Additional benefits to adopting DocuSign electronic signature include:

• Secure delivery, receipt and storage of documents
• Improved customer experience due to responsive customer service and instant gratification
• Legally defensible e-sign process
• Environmentally friendly

An Bui, DocuSign Social Media

An signs her name on comments, blog posts, and other online activities as “An Bui, DocuSign Social Media” to be clear and transparent that she’s providing information about electronic signature due to her relationship with DocuSign. In addition to writing and moderating the DocuSign blog, An also tweets from @DocuSign, monitors the DocuSign Facebook page, responds to comments on blog posts about electronic signature, and participates on RealTown, ActiveRain, and Trulia.

DocuSign also hosts electronic signature videos on YouTube, participates on discussions on LinkedIn, posts e-sign whitepapers and other materials on Scribd, as well as posts presentations about esignature on Slideshare.

An listens to the online conversations and provides information that real estate professionals are looking for.

Common questions she provides information about may be:

• How-To [use DocuSign in a specific way]. Click for How-To videos
• Do you have any information about FHA and Lender Acceptance?
• Is DocuSign legal?

Come by the DocuSign Inman Real Estate Connect booth #905, across from the Inman News Booth, to meet Dave Thorpe, Loren Alhadeff, and An Bui to discuss electronic signature, real estate, and DocuSign’s special offer as the official and exclusive ESIGN provider under the REALTOR Benefits® program. We’re extending the offer for a limited time so that you can take advantage of the opportunities electronic signature provides for your business!

We’re looking forward to seeing you in New York!

With six scheduled demos, many more impromptu one-on-one demos, questions about “Designed for Mobile”, and forms compatibility, I’ve pulled together some thoughts to share:

1. How do I get DocuSign on my mobile phone?

DocuSign “Designed for Mobile” comes with your subscription to DocuSign – there are no apps to download! It works for Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and Google Android. With electronic signature “Designed for Mobile,” eSign is faster and easier for customers to complete transactions while on the go.

You and your clients can now view and e-sign documents on your handheld device and see a new status console optimized for mobile browsers.

2. Will DocuSign work with my forms?

We’ve partnered with many of the real estate forms providers, including zipLogix (zipForm® and WINForms®), Realfast (Realfast2Go™), IRES, Reveal Systems (TrueForms), LPS Real Estate Group which includes TransactionPoint and DocCentral – click here to learn more about our partners.

You can also DocuSign documents created in Adobe (PDF’s), MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint as well.

3. How do I get started with DocuSign and electronic signature?

You can sign up on the DocuSign web site. Once you’ve signed up, take a look at our subscriber resources:

• Sign up for a Live Interactive Training webinar for eSignature
• Browse our DocuSign Electronic Signature forums, which are online discussions of DocuSign features, how-to’s, product announcements and more.
• Watch our How-To videos, including “Sending and signing a Lead-Based Pain Disclosure using DocuSign”, “Sending from zipForm 6 and DocuSign”, “How to add another real estate agent as a carbon copy recipient” and more. Take a look to see if there’s a video that addresses your question!
• Read our blog and suggest post ideas in the comments

With a 30-Day Free Trial, you can experience the power of securely sending, signing and storing documents with DocuSign.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at NAR – keep an eye on the blog for an exciting post-NAR announcement for those of you who stopped by!

We’re excited to announce that Second Century Ventures (SCV) has made a strategic investment in DocuSign, the leading electronic signature service provider. As part of the investment, the president of Second Century Ventures and chief executive officer of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), Dale A. Stinton will join the DocuSign Board of Directors.

Our capital investment and guidance will serve as a catalyst for [DocuSign] to become the standard and meet the market demand for legally binding electronic signatures that help REALTORS close more deals at a faster rate, and offer the convenience and flexibility buyers require. – Dale A. Stinton, President of SCV and CEO of NAR

The funds are invested to accelerate and extend our leadership position as a core technology solution for residential and commercial real estate professionals. We join an exclusive group of SCV portfolio companies including ePropertyData as well as representative investments made by NAR in Move Inc., zipLogix and SentriLock, that all provide leading technology solutions for REALTORS®. Second Century Ventures is the strategic investment arm of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), America’s largest trade organization with more than1.2 million members.

Second Century Ventures’ strategic investment underscores the success and value of DocuSign’s electronic signature service to the real estate community and will assure we can meet the growing demand for our technology solution across the industry. – Matthew J. Schiltz, CEO and President of DocuSign.

More than 18,000 real estate professionals have used DocuSign to accelerate their business, with thousands more subscribing each month. Rather than driving across town to get a signature or forcing their clients to find a fax machine, real estate professionals use DocuSign to execute agreements with buyers and sellers electronically, eliminating the old process of printing, faxing, and waiting for the return fax. DocuSign real estate professional subscribers achieve higher sales, increase client satisfaction and maintain a competitive edge. Safe and secure, the DocuSign e-signature process is also easy to use and legally compliant.

To use DocuSign Lite:

1. Go to the DocuSign home page



2. Enter your email and name as well as the person you are sending to
3. Upload your document for signature by clicking on the “Browse” Button
4. Click “Send Now”



5. Signers open their email from DocuSign to click to esign

DocuSign Everywhere

Today, thousands of companies utilize the DocuSign on-demand electronic signature service as a standalone web application or as an integrated part of business critical applications such as zipLogix, Salesforce.com and Ariba. In addition, DocuSign is the only electronic signature service that enables access to the sending and esigning experience via options that include a DocuSign Desktop Client, a broad range of Blackberrys and the iPhone, in addition to the web browser experience.

More Choices!

Most recently, DocuSign with partner Smart Mobile Solutions announced the availability of the ESignControl iPhone App in the iTunes App Store. Another example of a business partner integration resulted in DocuSign Express For Drawloop.

DocuSign and Drawloop Technologies, Inc. offers a free esign experience as part of Drawloop’s free PDF conversion tool. You can access DocuSign for Drawloop via web, as a Mozilla Firefox add-on, or as an iGoogle Gadget. Take a look at these instructions for using DocuSign Express for Drawloop via web. You can download the Mozilla Firefox add-on or embed the DocuSign Express / LOOP to PDF iGoogle Gadget.

Dave Thorpe, Director of Business Development and Director of Real Estate Services

Dave is responsible for developing strategic business opportunities in the Real Estate, Contract Management and Credit Union industry segments. Dave also has primary responsibility for DocuSign’s web subscription business and affiliate marketing programs.

Dave works with key partners like zipLogix and LPS Real Estate to develop integrated solutions with their froms and document management applications to provide streamlined solutions for Real Estate professionals. These integrations will help agents eliminate time consuming activities associated with managing and transporting paper to obtain legally binding signatures.

These integrations also save agents significant time and expense while making it easier for their clients. Dave is also working with a number of Associations on ways to provide members with entry level access to DocuSign as a member benefit.

Jim Custer, DocuSign Account Executive

Jim’s role at DocuSign is to identify needs within organizations and help demonstrate the impact e-signature will have in addressing those needs. Drawing from past successes, he can help a company understand what future success may look like for companies that come onboard with DocuSign.

Jim also helps determine the level of commitment that will drive the highest level of success as well as set up new partners’ DocuSign subscriptions.

With real estate, Jim helps organizations, brokerages, and offices that support real estate professionals realize the role DocuSign can play to improve each professional’s business. When all agents in an office use DocuSign, everyone saves time and operational costs decrease. Additional benefits include:

• Secure delivery, receipt and storage of documents
• Improved customer experience due to responsive customer service and instant gratification
• Legally defensible e-sign process, which Ken Moyle will be happy to discuss
• Environmentally friendly

An Bui, DocuSign Social Media

An signs her name on comments, blog posts, and other online activities as “An Bui, DocuSign Social Media” to be clear and transparent that she’s providing information about electronic signature because of her relationship with DocuSign. In addition to writing and moderating the DocuSign blog, An also tweets from @DocuSign, monitors the DocuSign Facebook page, responds to comments on blog posts about electronic signature, and participates on RealTown, ActiveRain, and Trulia.

DocuSign also hosts electronic signature videos on YouTube, participates on discussions on LinkedIn, posts e-sign whitepapers and other materials on Scribd, as well as posts presentations about esignature on Slideshare.

An listens to the online conversations and provides information that real estate professionals are looking for.

Common questions she provides information about may be:

• How-To [use DocuSign in a specific way]. Click for How-To videos
• Do you have any information about FHA and Lender Acceptance?
• Is DocuSign legal?

Of course, you can find out more about the legality of electronic signature in real estate if you attend Ken Moyle’s Tech Tuesday talk, tomorrow at CAR!

Come by the DocuSign CAR EXPO booth to meet Dave Thorpe, Suzanne Alberti, Jim Custer and An Bui and discuss electronic signature, real estate or just say hi!

We’re looking forward to seeing you at CAR!

Can you put together an integrated workflow to have a business process that is automated, paperless and saves you time?

While there is no single “best” way for every real estate professional, there are a variety of tools that work well together.

Automated forms software: You may already be using ZipLogix (zipForms/WINForms), RealFast, IRES, LPS Real Estate Group (Transaction Point or DocCentral) and Reveal Systems. All of these real estate software form providers integrate with DocuSign.

Contact management: Your contact management may be your Outlook email or CRM system that enables you to connect contacts to tasks and companies.

Electronic signature and online contract execution: DocuSign’s real estate specific features, like signing order, correct on the fly, import of handwritten signatures and contract templates explains why DocuSign’s real estate subscribers and their clients LOVE DocuSign. You can ensure that you’ll get every signature and initial you need. You’ll get the completed ‘DocuSigned’ documents which will be more “clean” than any scan-copy-fax-sign transaction. Needless to say, DocuSign transactions shorten sales cycles, thus saving you time. Our subscribers use these time savings to close more transactions. 

Using compatible technology tools enables you to enjoy a smooth workflow and makes your life easier while saving you time and money. Couple that with increased customer satisfaction and a paperless office just makes sense!