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RingCentral Customer Named Top Home-Based Business by StartupNation

Medical Solutions International Uses The RingCentral Virtual Phone System to Stay Connected with Staff and Clients

Redwood City, Calif. (Nov. 6, 2007) – RingCentral, Inc., whose virtual phone system allows small businesses to instantly unify and intelligently manage all their phone, mobile, and fax communications, today announced that its customer, Medical Solutions International (MSI), a medical staffing service, has been recognized by StartupNation as a winner of its Home-Based 100.

The StartupNation Home-Based 100, which ranks and categorizes the nation's top-performing, home-based entrepreneurs, named MSI (www.msinursestaffing.com) winner in the Best Financial Performers category. Based out of CEO Robert Woltz's Tempe, Arizona home, MSI places nurses with medical facilities around the world. Woltz relies on the RingCentral virtual phone system to effectively communicate with staff, nurses and clients all through one phone number.

"Innovative technology like RingCentral is what makes our business work," said Woltz. "While my employees work from their homes across the country, RingCentral gives us a professional, unified presence. The RingCentral number and extensions reach us wherever we are, and the call management tools allow us to streamline our communications with nurses and medical facilities worldwide. Additionally, with the RingCentral click-to-call service, RingMe, clients can reach our team directly through our website, with just a click of the mouse."

Recent studies indicate that there are more than 16 million home-based businesses in the United States today – an all-time high. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, home-based companies contribute more than $530 billion to the U.S. economy and represent 50 percent of all businesses registered in the United States.

The RingCentral service is a perfect fit for home-based businesses. By combining a toll-free or local number with advanced call management, PBX, voicemail and Internet fax, businesses can set up multiple extensions, automatically screen, forward and place calls, take voicemails, send and receive faxes, and receive message alerts. With the recent introduction of VoIP service -- RingCentral DigitalLine™ -- small businesses can use a mix of land line, mobile and VoIP communications to place and receive calls. RingCentral to date has attracted more than 40,000 paying customers, and signs up thousands more each month.

About RingCentral, Inc. 
RingCentral is helping small businesses stay connected with their customers. The Company’s affordable, easy to use, enterprise class suite of features includes Toll-Free and local numbers with multiple extensions and dial-by-name directory, Click-to-Call, world-wide call routing, visual voicemail, Internet Fax, and much more. RingCentral service requires no hardware and can be activated instantly at www.ringcentral.com. 

About StartupNation
Founded by Jeff and Rich Sloan, StartupNation provides entrepreneurial advice via a nationally syndicated radio program and through online content for entrepreneurs who want to start a business. The Sloan brothers are successful inventors, experienced entrepreneurs and authors of “StartupNation: Open for Business” (Doubleday). They appear frequently as small business experts on national television and in online and print media. More information is available at http://www.startupnation.com