Business Development at Microsoft
Greater Boston Area
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- Director, Business Development at Microsoft
- Past
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- VP Product Management at deNovis
- VP Product Management at Groove Networks
- VP Product Marketing at Bowstreet
- VP Product Development at Napster
- Director, Engineering at AltaVista
- Director Business Development at Compaq
- Group Manager DEC/Forte at Forte Software
- Product Management at Digital Equipment Corp
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Don Dodge’s Summary
An accomplished product development leader with a proven ability to bring innovative new products to market. A product, strategic and market visionary at five start-up ventures and a track record of driving business and technology in entrepreneurial and high-growth environments.
Don Dodge’s Experience
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Director, Business Development
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Venture Capital relations and business development with start-up companies in the Boston area.
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VP Product Management
deNovis
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2004 — October 2004 (8 months)
deNovis attempted to boil the ocean and invent a integrated real time health insurance claims processing system that solved all the problems of insurers, employers, doctors, and patients. Great idea, but after 4 years and $150M of VC money the game was over.
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VP Product Management
Groove Networks
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2001 — January 2004 (2 years 5 months)
Groove is the first team collaboration environment built on a secure P2P architecture. Groove offers both a smart desktop client for working together on projects, and a set of mobile collaboration services to enhance your new and existing enterprise applications.
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VP Product Marketing
Bowstreet
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2000 — August 2001 (10 months)
Bowstreet was the first major XML web services software company. Bowstreet created a development environment for dynamic applications and portals using parametric models.
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VP Product Development
Napster
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — October 2000 (10 months)
Napster was the first P2P file sharing application, and the fastest growing application ever in the history of the internet.
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Director, Engineering
AltaVista
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
January 1998 — December 1999 (2 years)
AltaVista was the first web search engine. We developed the first image search, video search, and music search engines for the web. All the great engineering feats went down the toilet when we tried to be a web portal and compete with Yahoo, Excite, MSN, etc. A sad story.
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Director Business Development
Compaq
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CPQ; Computer Software industry)
January 1996 — December 1997 (2 years)
Business Development for the research labs of Compaq Computer located in Palo Alto, CA.
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Group Manager DEC/Forte
Forte Software
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; FRTE; Computer Software industry)
January 1994 — January 1996 (2 years 1 month)
Forte Software was the first platform independent application development environment for serious enterprise applications. Forte used a three tier client server architecture with interpreted code on the client and compiled code on the server. This was before the days of Java...revolutionary for its time.
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Product Management
Digital Equipment Corp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1987 — January 1994 (6 years 5 months)
Product Management and business development positions in the database software group and the compilers and languages group.
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