Overview
Stepcase is a new breed of online company, bringing content and development together to help our users become the most productive, organized and effective people they can be. Stepcase Lifehack provides a daily wealth of information—from feature length articles and how-to information to quick tips and advice—that helps readers whether they want to change their email habits or change their lives. Stepcase is developing Stepcase Apps, a suit of online tools to help the individual web worker, the small business, or the corporate team to work more efficiently and achieve greater results.
Company History
Leon Ho founded lifehack.org in May, 2005, as a place to share little tips and tricks—hacks—that he and others had discovered to make their workflow smoother, quicker, and better. By the end of the year, lifehack.org had become one of the Web’s most popular personal productivity sites.
By 2007, lifehack.org had grown far beyond Leon’s original vision. He began expanding it by adding new contributors, and soon the site enjoyed over a million unique visits a month. Today, lifehack.org is a Technorati Top 100 blog with over 60,000 subscribers.
After honing his vision of personal productivity at lifehack,org, Leon shifted to the next piece of the productivity puzzle—the tools that teams and individuals need to get work done more efficiently. In June 2007, he left his full-time job and moved to Hong Kong to launch Stepcase Ltd, which was incorporated in September, 2007.
In 2008, Stepcase Ltd will launch the first of its new breed web-based productivity apps, embodying a new direction in thinking about personal productivity. Stepcase Lifehack remains the company’s flagship brand, continuing to provide tens of thousands of daily readers with the best productivity, organization, and personal development content available, on the Web or off.
Our Philosophy
What is “productivity”?
Everyone has projects they’re working on. We’ve got to handle tasks at work, rooms in our house we want to remodel, that novel we’ve been hoping to get to “some day,” the big race to prepare for, holiday trips to arrange—a million and one tasks, large and small, that make up the stuff of our lives.
Being productive isn’t only about getting tasks done and out of the way quickly. It’s about making the most of our time and energy. We believe that productivity cannot be measured solely in terms of projects finished but that our happiness and fulfillment in doing them matters just as much. We believe that our level of satisfaction in a job well done is as much a part of productivity as the action itself.
Productivity, then, is as much about developing our own abilities and talents as it is about turning in finished work for our employers’ approval. It’s about learning and growing and coming as close to our dreams and desires as we dare.
Stepcase Ltd is committed to providing the tools your business needs to maximize your productivity. It doesn’t matter if you’re a team in large organization, a small business or non-profit, an independent entrepreneur, a family or group of friends, or even a lone web worker — our tools and content will help you make better decisions, streamline your work processes, strike a healthy balance between working and living, and generally get things done better, faster, and worry-free.
Whether you’re reading an article that inspires you at Stepcase Lifehack or using one of our applications to collaborate over the web with a team scattered across the face of the globe, we aim to inspire you not just to finish the task at hand but to reach your highest goals.