Nicholas Longo

Current

Chief Evangelist & Rainmaker at Rackspace Hosting

Past

Ideologist at the edge of reason.
Founder at CoffeeCup Software, Inc.
Founder at Bluedomino Web Hosting

Owner at Raven & Sparrow

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Education

Endicott College

Recommended

13 people have recommended Nicholas

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

My Website

Nicholas Longo’s Summary

Invites or Contact: nick@nicholaslongo.com

With a successful background in developing and marketing revolutionary software, building a multi-million-dollar software company from the ground up, leveraging emerging technologies to drive innovative marketing initiatives, and forging strong customer relationships and strategic partnerships, I am proud to have established myself as a valued contributor to the Web. Combining my core strengths in brand management, team leadership, product development, word-of-mouth marketing, and business development I created many products and services for millions of users worldwide.

As the Founder of a successful software company I launched start-up operations, achieved dramatic sales growth and expansion, and ultimately prepared the company for sale. A sample of my key contributions includes:

• Pioneering development of a cutting-edge HTML Editor, an application enabling nontechnical people to develop personal and business websites.

• Growing company from idea into a provider of 40M+ downloads of over 20 software programs.

• Harnessing and leveraging CoffeeCup users to drive a 1st-of-its-kind Ambassador program, designed to empower users in evangelizing software applications.

• Earning recognition as 1 of the top 5K websites visited on the internet in 2007.

• Garnering outstanding success in the late-90s emerging online industry, securing status as one of the first downloadable software programs.

• Achieving standing as the #1 downloaded web design software from cnet's download.com and tucows.com for 10 consecutive years.

• Securing the #400 position in Interactive Week Magazine’s “Interactive 500” in 2000.

• Winning multiple Shareware Industry Awards: Best Web Enhancement in 1999 & 2000, Best Internet Communication Software in 2001, Best Web Enhancement Software in 2002, and Best Internet Enhancement in 2002-2004.

Nicholas Longo’s Specialties:

Over 10 years in the Web design software business gives me a lot of specialties to try to put on such a small page :) My real specialty is creating things to make life easier and marketing them in very special ways.

I can always be reached at nick@nicholaslongo.com

Nicholas Longo’s Experience

Chief Evangelist & Rainmaker

Rackspace Hosting

(Public Company; RAX; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)

I do magic Web marketing stuff in the Rackspace Cloud.
Ideologist

the edge of reason.

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 4 months)
Founder

CoffeeCup Software, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 1996 — March 2007 (11 years )
Founder

Bluedomino Web Hosting

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

November 2000 — July 2005 (4 years 9 months)

Hosted over 15,000 Websites. Prepared and sold the company after running it for 4 years. www.bluedomino.com
Owner

Raven & Sparrow

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1994 — September 1996 (2 years 2 months)

Started as a real cool Coffee house and became one of the first Internet Cafe's in the World. It was the launching pad for CoffeeCup Software and the rest is history.

Nicholas Longo’s Education

Endicott College

Honorary Doctorate , Humane Letters - Technology , 2002

Additional Information

Nicholas Longo’s Websites:

My Website

Nicholas Longo’s Groups:

One of 1000 members of the Internet Strategy Forum
Vistage Expert Resource Speaker
Member of the American Marketing Association
Founder | OISV- Organization of Independent Software Vendors