GoBox Software Billings MT

Posted by : Elizabeth Millard

Some high school kids dream of starting up a company someday, and then there are those few who don't bother to wait. Nathan Perkins, who's still expected at school every morning, and his brother Benjamin Rodefer run Berkeley-based GoBox Software, which offers an alternative to the Web browser route. Benjamin talks about software development, Internet utilities, and working his schedule around soccer practices.

How did GoBox get started?

My brother and I had been talking through several software and Internet business ideas since he was about 12 years old. In the spring of 2001, when he was 15, he showed me a few small software utilities he called "mini-apps" that allowed the user to retrieve information from the Internet without first opening a browser. That intrigued me, having a simple desktop utility that could retrieve information in a quicker and easier fashion. The more I though about it, the greater the potential I saw.

What did you think you could do with these applications?

I thought, what if we combine these "mini-apps" and develop additional search capabilities? The goal became to create a single desktop access point for all information needs; not just online resources, but indeed for any internal, local, or global database.

What does the company have in the works now?

Something I am particularly excited about are Network GoBoxes, where corporate, educational, and public networks have us come in and do a custom...

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