As a co-founder of Syncplicity, a service that competes with Dropbox, this question has been on my mind for years. We launched within a few weeks of Dropbox, we had multi-folder synchronization & read-only sync, and we were a few years older than the Dropbox kids. I'm very proud of the service we put together and am happy to see the service shift towards businesses, yet Dropbox kicked butt. Here's why:
via quora.com
Great insight by Isaac Hall on how Dropbox (one of my favourite online services) used a combination of viral marketing, closed beta'sand simple and focussed product development to become the great success that it is.

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