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Donna Wells

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CEO, Mindflash.com

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Donna Wells leads Mindflash.com, a provider of award-winning, cloud-based training and collaboration software for businesses. She was previously CMO of Mint.com, the online personal finance service, responsible for driving growth from product launch to US market leadership with ...

Donna Wells leads Mindflash.com, a provider of award-winning, cloud-based training and collaboration software for businesses. She was previously CMO of Mint.com, the online personal finance service, responsible for driving growth from product launch to US market leadership with 2 million users within two years. Donna has led large marketing organizations for industry leaders including Intuit, Charles Schwab, Expedia, and American Express. She is an advisor to, and angel investor in, several B2C and B2B start-ups. Donna was named one of the Top 25 Women in Tech to Watch by Accenture.

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WEB: Mindflash Blog

Aug. 23, 2011

Donna Wells answered this question

Is an internal intranet an effective tool for employee communications?

Absolutely. Everyone at Mindflash is on Yammer all day, every day. It allows our remote employees and HQ team to stay connected in real time, from wherever they are. Recommend highly. And it's free. more

Human Resources

Information Technology

June 15, 2011

Donna Wells and 1 other person answered this question

What are some examples of "lean startups"?

Good source is the company/speaker roster from this month's MicroConference for self-funded start-ups: http://www.microconf.com/speakers.html

Information Technology

Rapid Deployment

June 15, 2011

Donna Wells and 9 other people answered this question

Is branding a luxury for small businesses?

Thanks, Scott. And it's true that we had deeper than average pockets. But strong branding allowed us to reduce our customer acquisition costs to roughly $1 per new user and increase the percent of our resources invested in the other aspects of our business. That ... more

April 4, 2011

Donna Wells and 14 other people answered this question

What are your favorite SMB cloud applications?

We run our business on free or low-cost SaaS applications. I can recommend the following. Please see my recent Mashable post for more context on the first five: http://mashable.com/2010/12/21/web-apps-small-business/
1. Ethnio (User research)
2. Usabilla (User research)
3. Yammer (Employee communications)
4. KISSInsights (User feedback)
5. WordPress (Website and blog ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

April 4, 2011

Donna Wells and 1 other person answered this question

What methods have served you best to track your employee training?

Hi Whitney,
My company, Mindflash, offers automatic, real-time reporting of training course status, and of trainee progress and performance. This tracking is provided at a group-, individual- and even quiz question-level of detail. Our users tell us that they save hours of time tracking employee training ... more

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Employee Development

Employee Training

April 4, 2011

Donna Wells and 1 other person answered this question

Has anyone used MindFlash or similar online training services?

Hi Julia,
Apologies for just seeing this now. Just joined Focus as an Expert last week. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have about our online training application. Email me at donna.wells@mindflashdotcom.
Alternatively, please feel free to pose your questions directly to our users ... more

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March 25, 2011

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