President
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- President at Paseman & Associates
- Past
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- Founder, Chairman at Calico Commerce
- Consultant at Paseman & Associates
- Co-founder, VP R&D at Atherton
- Software Manager at Daisy Systems
- Entwicklungsingenieur at Nixdorf Computer
- Engineer at Atlantic Richfield
- Education
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- MIT
- Rice University
- Rice University
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- Industry
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Bill Paseman’s Summary
2000-present - Paseman & Associates - President
1994-2000 - Calico (NASDAQ: CLIC) - Founder, Chairman
1990-1994 - Paseman & Associates - Consultant
1986-1989 - Atherton Technology - Co-Founder, CTO
1981-1985 - Daisy Systems (NASDAQ: DAZY) - Software Manager
1980-1981 - Nixdorf Computer, Paderborn Germany - Developer
1977-1978 - Atlantic Richfield, Houston Texas - Petroleum Engineer
Bill Paseman’s Specialties:
Starting Companies, Technical due diligence
Bill Paseman’s Experience
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President
Paseman & Associates
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
August 2000 — Present (9 years 4 months)
Active Investments include:
Club Ed (clubedresort.com) - Premier English School on the Pacific Island resort of Carnaza.
ConnectedLeads - Facebook Advertising.
Dogster.com - Where Every Dog Has A Webpage!
Fortressware(fortressw.com) - Security solutions for workgroups traversing enterprise boundaries.
GeckoGo.com - Social Applications for the Travel Market.
Realization.com - Execution management system based on critical chain principles.
Semantion.com - Semantic-based SOA architectural framework.
WeMeUs - Business Social Tools.
UpToUs.com - Parent oriented Social Network. -
Founder, Chairman
Calico Commerce
(Public Company; CLIC; Computer Software industry)
April 1994 — August 2000 (6 years 5 months)
During my tenure as chairman, Calico grew to over 300 employees, was recognized as the 14th fastest-growing company in Silicon Valley, and had the 6th best IPO in the history of the NASDAQ. Calico sold product configuration systems, distributed order entry applications, electronic marketplaces and one-to-one marketing applications. After founding Calico in April 1994 with my wife, Calico booked $1M from three companies in its first nine months. I then closed a first round of financing with Mayfield Fund and Kleiner Perkins in April of 1995 and served as Calico’s President and CEO through January 1996. At Calico, I invented the first on-line sales configurator, which allowed companies to sell configurable products over the internet (Patent 5,745,765). After deploying it at Cisco, Calico won Cisco's Supplier of the year award in 1996. As Chairman, I guided Calico from inception to its 1999 IPO (Nasdaq CLIC). Peoplesoft acquired Calico in 2002.
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Consultant
Paseman & Associates
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1989 — March 1994 (4 years 6 months)
At Paseman and Associates, I looked for a business model that was self funding, market focused, and let me develop a software product that I would own. I found that Berkeley's Teknekron had a process I could adapt for my own use. I then spent 4 years "Looking for an enterprise problem that was so bad, people would pay me to solve it and let me keep the software". During that time I consulted on next generation spreadsheets (Objective Software), multimedia databases (Mediashare), OO chemical structures databases, Tool Integration (Northrop) and a myriad of other things before hitting on product sales configuration (NET and Make Systems).
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Co-founder, VP R&D
Atherton
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1986 — October 1989 (3 years 10 months)
My first startup. We raised money from Mayfield, Kleiner Perkins and Menlo Ventures in order to create an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for programmers. However, we wound up creating a Tool Integration Environment for DOD prime contractors instead. The resulting turmoil taught me many things: primarily that we should have figured out the business model in more detail before we raised the money.
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Software Manager
Daisy Systems
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1981 — December 1985 (4 years 5 months)
Daisy sold software that helped people design hardware. I joined as the 16th employee and left when Daisy had over 1,000 people. I worked (with many others) on all the products that actually made Daisy money: the drawing editor, the simulator and a dataflow machine that implemented the simulation algorithm in hardware. The members of this group of 16 who went on to create other public companies included: Aryeh Finegold (Founded Mercury Interactive), Dave Stamm (Founded Clarify), Harvey Jones (Founded Synopsys), Vinod Khosla (Founded Sun Microsystems), Mike D'Amour (founded Quickturn) and myself (founded Calico). Great Education. Daisy was acquired by Intergraph.
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Entwicklungsingenieur
Nixdorf Computer
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1980 — June 1981 (10 months)
Ich arbeitete im Bereich Qualitaetswesen, Entwicklung Pruef- und Steurmittel. Ich entwickelte ein Kanalprogramm zum Anschluss einer Tastatur an einem Mikroprozessor und auf ein Konzept fuer das Betriebssystem eines Testgeraetes fuer hochintegrierte Schaltkreise.
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Engineer
Atlantic Richfield
(Oil & Energy industry)
September 1977 — September 1978 (1 year 1 month)
I worked stints as an Operations, Production, Analytical and Drilling Engineer primarily offshore on Eugene Island Block 175. I saved the company more than my annual salary the first day on the job by finding a discarded valve on a production platform that got us producing one day early.
Bill Paseman’s Education
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MIT
MSEECS , AI, Computer Science , September 1978 — September 1980
Created Music Composition Algorithms based on Generative Grammars and Constraints
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Rice University
MChe , Petroleum, Nuclear Engineering , 1973 — 1977
My Master's Thesis was on Passive Solar Heating Systems
- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma Xi
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Rice University
BSEE , Control and Communication , 1973 — 1976
(With Howie Johnson) created music composition algorithms based on Markov matrices and finite state machines. Built computer controlled music synthesizers out of discrete TTL that were driven in real time by an IBM 360.
Additional Information
Bill Paseman’s Groups:
Software Development Forum
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Medical Devices Group -
Medical Device and China
Bill Paseman’s Contact Settings
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