About Curve Dental
What Keeps Us Up at Night
Two big worries prevent us from sleeping well at night: First, we fret continually about our dental software: Can we make it any simpler? How can we make it more flexible to our customers' lifestyles? Can we tweak it even more to improve efficiencies for our customers?
Second, we lose sleep due to inconvenient "A-ha!" moments when thinking about customer service. Making sure every one of our customers is happy is a key priority and we're always trying to think of new ways to keep our customers thrilled and how to exceed their expectations. Everyone likes surprises, so we send our customers a pleasant surprise every now and again.
The Curve Legend
Sit back and reach for a refreshment, because you'll love this story...
Once upon a time there was this whiz kid named Matt Dorey. His parents and friends knew he was a boy genius 'cause he was always asking the right questions and thinking big. Having become bored with elementary school classes, at age 11 he started taking college courses in programming and built some cool e-commerce and social networking sites. At the green age of 16 he started his own IT business. No, this wasn't a lemonade stand type business, it was a real revenue producing, service providing company helping dentists install and configure computers and networks. His reputation for quality service earned him an exclusive agreement with the largest Canadian dental supply company at the time and provided the "real world" experience he craved. Through this all, he learned firsthand the benefits and challenges found in the current offering of dental software–and saw an opportunity.
Having aged to 18, he set his sights on something bigger and convinced several well-healed investors that an idea of his just might work. "Look," he said, "If I can bank on-line, book a vacation on-line, shop on-line, and trade stocks on-line, why can't a dentist manage their practice on-line." To this question, no one had a viable answer. Rather, the only thing they could do was envision all the advantages web-based dental software has to offer; then they wrote out a check to fund the project and held on tight as Matt created the genesis of his vision – a fresh new alternative to dental software.
Propelled and encouraged by the faith of his family, friends, and perhaps most importantly – his investors, the whiz kid assembled a crack team of web developers. These guys make your typical "rocket scientist" look like a school kid. Really, they are Rock Stars (at least they sound like it on WII Guitar Hero).
The first release, Curve DMS, was a solid piece of code and DMS 2 was a real performer. However, during the several years of work and progress on the DMS line, new tools were created that enabled a major leap forward – the result – Curve Hero!
To help him round out the team, Matt found a kindred spirit in Jim Pack. Jim had walked the trail before and Matt was anxious to have a little more "grey hair" on the team. In the early days of MS Windows, Jim was a principle at Dentrix with specific responsibility for company growth. He also helped turn around Easy Dental when it was in crisis and most recently Jim lead a company called AdvancedMD rocket to become the fastest growing practice management system for the medical market. Working side-by-side with Matt, they together assembled a stellar team of veteran marketing, sales, training and service professionals. Today, some of the best and brightest in the industry are aggressively building, promoting and supporting the leading Web-Based Alternative to Dental Software – Curve Hero.
Things have come a long way since those early years for Matt, but you will still find him putting in 80 hour weeks, visiting with users, scouting out new talent, and providing the unique vision that is changing an industry.
