Last week I had the opportunity to speak with the NutshellMail co-founders, Mark Schmulen and David Lyman, about building their company and the quick exit to ConstantContact. While we had a long conversation, I’ve cut down the interview to 7 key points that we covered during our conversation. There are some great takeaways for entrepreneurs looking to build their own businesses.
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NutshellMail, one of the early participants in the fbFund, has been acquired by Constant Contact, the email marketing provider. The acquisition aims at providing small organizations with a tool “to monitor and engage with social networks right from their email inbox”. It’s a pretty obvious acquisition opportunity as NutshellMail is one of the only email marketing companies in the social media space.
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Great news today for Facebook page administrators—NutshellMail, a service that allows users to track updates from several social networking sites through an email aggregate, has added an automated newsletter feature that will assist administrators in keeping fans up to date on the latest fan page updates.
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Last week we got the opportunity to speak with the team behind NutshellMail, a recent fbFund winner. NutshellMail enables users to manage all of their social network email accounts through one system. I took the time to sign up last week and I have to admit that the service is pretty slick. I actually don’t use multiple social networks to manage my contacts (although I still occasionally log in to LinkedIn), but many users have distributed contacts across many networks making this product extremely useful. Check out my interview with founders Mark Schmulen and David Lyman below.
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NutshellMail is one of those services that might be hard to wrap your head around, either because it’s concept seems unfeasible or just otherwise too good to be true. So what’s it do?

NutshellMail lets you sneak around your company’s firewalls in order to receive your emails. It does so by “forwarding” your emails to you from its centralized system, giving you access to your blocked emails from a service that’s accepted by your company. Assuming the security risks are the only reason why your boss won’t let you check your email at work, NutshellMail is a viable option for many working in corporate America.
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