Alexander Muse

Current

Co-Founder at Big in Japan
Chairman at SpringStage
Owner at Architel

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Past

Board of Advisors at Meriton Networks Inc.
President & CEO at LayerOne Holdings Inc.
CLEC Channel Manager at GTE Internetworking

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Education

The University of Texas at Austin
James E. Taylor High School

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Alexander Muse’s Summary

Alexander is a serial entrepreneur with more than a decade of startup experience. Prior to co-founding Big in Japan (the company behind ShopSavvy for Google's new G1 phone), Alexander served as CEO of Architel, a provider of outsourced information technology services. Previously, he was founder and CEO of LayerOne, a telecommunications infrastructure company he started in the late 1990’s.

Alexander has been involved in several organizations including the Entrepreneurs Foundation of North Texas (EFTN), the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO), SXSW Alumni Association, the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), IEEE, NATPE and The Open Management Consortium.

Alexander Muse’s Specialties:

Open Handset Alliance, barcode, UPC, shopsavvy, Google android, coworking, ACH, mobile payment, colocation, Ruby on Rails, Asterisk, Microformats, Web 2.0, wikis, Wordpress, APIs, ATOM, CSS, Nagios, Facebook, open source, TV Production, SXSW, fractional ownership, venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, sales and marketing, turnarounds, information technology, IT outsourcing, offshore, Chapter 11 (363).

Alexander Muse’s Experience

Co-Founder

Big in Japan

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

August 2008 — Present (3 months)

Big in Japan builds cool applications for mobile devices, including Apple’s award winning iPhone and Google’s open source Android platform, think of us as the mobile idea factory. Our latest application GoCart™, is a finalist in Google’s Android Developer Challenge and will be available on Google Android phones in later this year. Big in Japan is not just a development shop, we manage and support our applications for millions of users for major brands including FX Network and LEGO.
Chairman

SpringStage

(Publishing industry)

May 2008 — Present (6 months)

SpringStage is a new company founded by David Cohen, Alexander Muse and Micah Baldwin. Our objective is to build a network of online, offline and media properties in an effort to promote entrepreneurship. Our focus is on local community development and in an effort to generate local content we are looking for catalysts to kick start their local startup scene. Interested in joining us? Drop me a line at amuse@springstage.com
Owner

Architel

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2001 — Present (7 years 2 months)

Architel's primary line of business is managed IT services for small and medium sized companies (20-200 employees). The company provides these businesses an all-you-can-eat support solution for a flat monthly fee ($6,500 per month on average). With over 100 clients, Architel branched out to offer various related services including a suite of managed services (backup, spam filtering, colocation and so on) as well as technology staffing services (infrastructure and software). Finally, the company recently entered the pre-integration SAP business.

Architel was founded in 2001 by four partners including myself and Scott Ryan. Scott and I bought out the other partners in 2003 and I took over as CEO. By 2006 I turned over the CEO position to Scott to focus on our software business (Big in Japan). Scott and I still own Architel and maintain offices in the Dallas INFOMART.