Originally developed in Japan, QR (Quick Response) codes have just recently started to generate some buzz and make their imprint here in the United States. Even if you don’t know what they are, you’ve most likely seen them; they’re the black and white Rorschach-looking square images seen on a growing number of products and media advertisements.

In brief, a QR code is a two-dimensional (2D) barcode of pixelated squares that mobile phone users scan to retrieve website URLs, product information, music, text, videos, coupons and much more.

MAINTENANCE ALERT: On Sunday, April 1st from 1 PM to 2 PM EST we’ll be testing out our backup feature Update Mode to ensure it works as designed.

Please note that this test will only affect a small number of our customers. During this maintenance window, if your account is affected, your calls and voicemails will be forwarded to the backup phone number and email address listed in your Update Mode settings.

Check your Update Mode settings now >>

It’s Meet the Employees Monday here at Grasshopper.  This week’s employee spotlight is on David Janelle.  David works on the user experience team as the Interaction Designer. David designs all of our websites, banner ads and print materials for Grasshopper. It’s his job to make sure everything fits with our brand while looking as appealing as possible. He’s working on some pretty awesome stuff right now, so keep an eye out for it!

Let’s get to know David…

Thank you to everyone who submitted a startup dream team and to all those who voted! The results are in and the winner of our Take Your Dream Team to the Final Four contest is Paige Piper. Congratulations to Paige and her startup dream team, the Flyers!  Paige won two tickets to both the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four & National Championship games as well as a 4 night stay at the Omni Royal Hotel in New Orleans.

A few months ago we decided to launch a newsletter for our customers. We’re always reading all sorts of interesting, inspiring and downright awesome articles about growing your small business and we thought everyone should benefit.  We started this newsletter with the intention of sharing all this great content with just our customers but since we got such a positive response we thought we’d extend the invitation!

Now, this isn’t your standard company newsletter. You know the “we did this,” “we won this,” ones. No one wants their inbox clogged up with that stuff!

Every month we compile the top 6 stories from around the web, that we think every entrepreneur should read, into 1 quick and easy to read email.  The newsletter goes out on first Monday of every month.  No more, no less. Just one email, once a month.