Entrepreneur and Social Media Design|Development|Strategy
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Principal at Metablocks, Inc.
- Co-founder, VP at vFlyer, Inc.
- Member, Advisory Board & Investor at Become.com
- Member, Advisory Board at MerchantCircle, Inc.
- Managing Partner at Pulse Ventures LLP
- Past
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- VP Products at TagWorld (Acquired by MTV/Viacom)
- Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures
- Co-founder, Former VP Marketing & Market Development at Epicentric (Aquired by Vignette)
- Member, Board of Advisors & Investor at ActiveTelco (Acquired by Tut Systems)
- Member, Board of Advisors at eGroups (Acquired by Yahoo)
- Director of Marketing and Product Management at Touchwave (Acquired by Ericsson)
- Co-founder, Director of Marketing and Product Mangement at RandomNoise (Acquried by Vignette)
- GM Desktop Products at Xaos Tools
- Director of Product Management at Motion Works International
- Senior Product Manager at Coactive Computing
- Education
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- University of Southern California
- Hillcrest
- Kent Academy
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Oliver Muoto’s Summary
http://www.muoto.com/bio.htm
Oliver Muoto was most recently Co-founder and VP of Market Development at Epicentric, the leading provider of Business Portal solutions for Global 2000 companies to deliver integrated Web services to their customers, partners and employees. As the original VP of Marketing, Mr. Muoto was responsible for the successful launch of the company. Founded in 1998, Epicentric had over 300 employees and 350 Global 2000 customers before it was acquired by Vignette (VIGN), the industry leader in enterprise content management, in December 2002.
Prior to founding Epicentric, Mr. Muoto held various senior marketing and product management positions and played a critical role in the successes of five startups. At TouchWave, Mr. Muoto was responsible for the launch of the first Web-based phone appliance, the WebSwitch. TouchWave was later acquired by Ericsson (ERICY). At RandomNoise, Mr. Muoto launched Coda, the industry's first all-Java Web Site builder, which went on to win several industry awards before it too was acquired by Vignette (VIGN).
Mr. Muoto has been quoted or featured in numerous industry trade journals and national newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, CNN, Fast Company, Wired Magazine and the San Jose Mercury. He is a frequent speaker at industry-wide conferences on enterprise software and Web Services. He is also an inventor of one of the first U.S. Patents (6,327,628) awarded to an enterprise portal software company, covering the administration of user privileges in portal frameworks. Mr. Muoto also serves on the advisory boards and board of directors of several early stage startups primarily focused on enterprise and infrastructure software.
Mr. Muoto earned a Bachelor of Science degree Cum Laude in Industrial and System Engineering as well as a Minor in Marketing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.
Oliver Muoto’s Specialties:
TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................................... enterprise software : portal software : web services : RFID/Auto-ID : content mgt and KM
STARTUPS ..............................................................................................................................
founding/advising companies
: product definition, strategy & ui design
: termsheets & due-diligence
: PR and launch activity
Oliver Muoto’s Experience
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Principal
Metablocks, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
October 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)
Metablocks designs and develops advanced and highly interactive Web-based user interfaces experiences and software application solutions from concept to delivery.
Metablocks works with both early stage and established companies to create complex and compelling AJAX-enbled Web-based and Browser-based applications. -
Co-founder, VP
vFlyer, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)
Classifieds creation, management and submission platform currently in public beta.
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Member, Advisory Board & Investor
Become.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
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Member, Advisory Board
MerchantCircle, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
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Managing Partner
Pulse Ventures LLP
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
October 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)
Investment arm of Metablocks, Inc. Makes selected investments in Internet and enterprise software early stage companies, sometimes in the form of intellectual property and/or software design and development services.
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VP Products
TagWorld (Acquired by MTV/Viacom)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
September 2005 — August 2006 (1 year )
Next Generation Social Network.
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Venture Partner
Outlook Ventures
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2003 — July 2005 (2 years 1 month)
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Co-founder, Former VP Marketing & Market Development
Epicentric (Aquired by Vignette)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; VIGN; Computer Software industry)
November 1998 — February 2003 (4 years 4 months)
Was Co-founder and VP of Market Development at Epicentric, the leading provider of Business Portal solutions for Global 2000 companies to deliver integrated Web services to their customers, partners and employees. As the original VP of Marketing, was responsible for the successful launch of the company. Founded in 1998, Epicentric had over 300 employees and 350 Global 2000 customers before it was acquired by Vignette (VIGN), the industry leader in enterprise content management, in December 2002.
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Member, Board of Advisors & Investor
ActiveTelco (Acquired by Tut Systems)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 8 months)
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Member, Board of Advisors
eGroups (Acquired by Yahoo)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 4 months)
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Director of Marketing and Product Management
Touchwave (Acquired by Ericsson)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
September 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Successfully launched the WebSwitch, a network-based phone system, at Networld Interop 97 that went on to win six industry awards including Computer Telephony's Best of Show (CT Expo 97) and Editors Choice Awards.
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Co-founder, Director of Marketing and Product Mangement
RandomNoise (Acquried by Vignette)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 1996 — September 1997 (1 year 6 months)
Successfully launched RandomNoise Coda, the first All Java Web site builder. Coda went on to win several awards including Best of Show at Demo '97, Best of Show at Web '97, Hot Pick at Seybold '97 (New York), and Hot Pick MacWorld '97 (San Francisco).
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GM Desktop Products
Xaos Tools
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1995 — March 1996 (1 year )
Held P&L responsibility for company’s Desktop Group business unit. Successfully built and grew the unit’s marketing effort responsible for a third of the company's revenue.
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Director of Product Management
Motion Works International
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1994 — April 1995 (10 months)
Served as product manager for cross-platform multimedia authoring and production software: MediaShop and Multimedia Utilities.
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Senior Product Manager
Coactive Computing
(Computer Networking industry)
June 1993 — July 1994 (1 year 2 months)
Senior product manager responsible for Coactive Computing hardware and software offerings. Was responsible for developing and implementing the marketing and product development strategy, managing hardware bill of materials (BOM), assembly diagrams, and engineering change notices (ECN).
Oliver Muoto’s Education
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University of Southern California
BS , Industrial and Systems Engineering, Marketing , 1988 — 1993
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Hillcrest
1985 — 1988
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Kent Academy
Additional Information
Oliver Muoto’s Websites:
Oliver Muoto’s Interests:
founding companies, funding companies, user interface design, social media application development and marketing, widgets
Oliver Muoto’s Groups:
Dinner 2.0
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Xaos Tools Alumni -
Altus Advisory Group
Oliver Muoto’s Honors:
U.S. Patents (6,327,628)
Oliver Muoto’s Contact Settings
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