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Don Dodge

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Don Dodge is a veteran of five start-ups including Forte Software, AltaVista, Napster, Bowstreet, and Groove Networks. Don was recently Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. Don is now a Developer Advocate at Google helping developers build applications on Google platforms.

Don has been in the software business for more than 25 years. He started his software career with Digital Equipment, aka DEC, in the database group. He was part of the leadership team of five software start-ups. Forte Software was the first multiplatform object oriented development environment. AltaVista was the first search engine on the web. Napster was the first P2P file sharing network. Bowstreet was the first web services development environment. Groove Networks was the first secure P2P collaboration platform. Don spent 5 years at Microsoft as a developer evangelist to the startup community. Don is now a Developer Advocate at Google.

He writes a daily blog, Don Dodge on the Next Big Thing.

Don, a native New-Englander, holds an MBA from New Hampshire College and a BS in accounting from the University of Southern Maine.

Recent Milestones

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  Don Dodge — Don Dodge invested in Perzo (4/5/13)
  Posted 4/13/13 at 1:43pm via crunchbase.com
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  Don Dodge invested in The Tap Lab. (4/3/12)
  Posted 4/3/12 at 8:27am via venturebeat.com
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  Don Dodge invested in AppStack. (3/28/12)
  Posted 3/27/12 at 9:58pm via techcrunch.com
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  Don Dodge invested in DocRun. (2/8/12)
  Posted 2/8/12 at 5:58pm via techcrunch.com
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  Don Dodge invested in Nimble CRM. (1/4/12)
  Posted 1/4/12 at 8:59pm via techcrunch.com
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  Don Dodge invested in Airtime. (10/6/11)
  Posted 4/15/11 at 12:02pm via techcrunch.com
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  Don Dodge invested in echoecho . (9/8/11)
  Posted 9/8/11 at 8:10pm via venturebeat.com
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  Don Dodge invested in Parse. (8/4/11)
  Posted 8/18/11 at 11:44pm via techcrunch.com
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  Don Dodge invested in just.me. (7/30/11)
  Posted 7/29/11 at 7:52pm via techcrunch.com
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  Don Dodge invested in Hipster. (5/16/11)
  Posted 7/14/11 at 2:10pm via techcrunch.com
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  Don Dodge invested in Milk. (4/1/11)
  Posted 4/26/11 at 4:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Don Dodge invested in ecomom. (12/21/10)
  Posted 12/21/10 at 11:50pm via venturebeat.com
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  Don Dodge invested in Path. (11/1/10)
  Posted 2/1/11 at 2:46pm via techcrunch.com
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  Don Dodge added a position as Developer Advocate at Google. (11/1/09)
  Posted 11/15/09 at 8:05pm
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  Don Dodge invested in Swype. (4/2/09)
  Posted 12/15/09 at 3:08pm via techflash.com
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  Don Dodge added a position as Director of Business Development at Microsoft. (1/1/05)
  Posted 5/7/08 at 10:30pm

Investments

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crunchbase.com [edit]
1. The Tap Lab raises $550K to fund location-based mobile games (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Mobile Ad Optimization Startup AppStack Raises $1.5M From Eric Schmidt, Google Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Stealthy Legal Startup DocRun Raises $1.1M From Resolute.VC, Don Dodge And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Google Ventures, Mark Cuban And Others Invest $1M In Social CRM Startup Nimble (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Echoecho raises $750K from Google Ventures, lets you find your friends (venturebeat.com) [edit]
7. YC-Funded Parse: A Heroku For Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Stealth Social Mobile Startup just.me Raises $600K From Google Ventures, SV Angel And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Local Q&A Site Hipster Raises $1M From Google Ventures, Lightbank, 500 Startups And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. venturebeat.com [edit]
12. techcrunch.com [edit]
13. Swype swipes new capital (techflash.com) [edit]