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Jim Harrer

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Jim Harrer is a successful start-up CEO, turnaround CEO, interim CEO and an experience change management practitioner.

In 1986, Jim founded Mustang Software to develop a line of modem communication software. In 1994 he took that company public (NASDAQ:MSTG), only to be crushed by the World Wide Web in late 1995. Left for dead by wall street, Jim reinvent the company during 1996. In 1997 Jim created a new email response management system called Mustang Message Center. This product handled email inbound email to generic mailboxes (sales@, support@) for companies like Nordstrom, Dow Jones, Carnival Cruise Lines, and others. In 2000 the company was acquired for $290m.

In 2001, Jim assisted a young Internet Professional Services company, Web Associates, perform a turnaround. As their turnaround CEO Jim streamlined operations, put a new marketing program in place and improved sales processes, billing and time management.

In 2002, Jim led a turnaround for Starbase Corp. (NASDAQ:SBAS). Starbase was a 300 person, $40m+ sales, with offices around the globe. Jim rebuilt the sales and marketing departments from scratch. Starbase was cleaned up and sold to Borland in early 2003.

In 2005, Jim founded EventMingle, an event-based social networking solution for the trade show industry. EventMingle’s technology was sold in 2010.

In 2011, Jim became President of Alchemy Solutions and led the turnaround of the company.

Recent Milestones

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  Jim Harrer — Harrer joins VentureBox as a startup Mentor. (1/5/12)
  Posted 1/27/12 at 9:13am via venturebox.org
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  Jim Harrer — Harrer Drives Microsoft Windows Azure development for Alchemy's NeoKicks line. (10/17/11)
  Posted 11/5/11 at 12:49pm via marketwatch.com
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  Jim Harrer — President of Alchemy Solutions, Inc. (1/31/11)
  Posted 2/2/11 at 5:35pm via businesswire.com
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  Jim Harrer — Launch of the EventMingle Community Platform (12/10/09)
  Posted 10/20/10 at 3:20pm via pressreleasepoint.com
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  Jim Harrer — Launches EventMingle (11/1/05)
  Posted 10/20/10 at 3:16pm via meetingsnet.com
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  Jim Harrer — Leads sale of Starbase to Borland for 252% Starbase's stock price. (10/7/02)
  Posted 10/12/10 at 7:53am via secinfo.com
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  Jim Harrer — Named CEO of Starbase (NASDAQ:SBAS) (4/1/02)
  Posted 10/8/10 at 5:05pm via businessweek.com
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  Jim Harrer — Became President of Starbase Corp (NASDAQ:SBAS) (1/1/02)
  Posted 10/8/10 at 5:04pm via businessweek.com
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  Jim Harrer — Mustang Software Acquired (5/18/00)
  Posted 10/8/10 at 4:52pm via allbusiness.com
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  Jim Harrer — Mustang Internet Message Center ships (8/27/98)
  Posted 10/8/10 at 4:37pm via highbeam.com
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  Jim Harrer — Takes Mustang Software Public (4/15/95)
  Posted 10/8/10 at 4:47pm via findarticles.com
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  Jim Harrer — Jim Harrer leads Mustang Software's acquisition of Qmodem. (10/13/91)
  Posted 10/8/10 at 4:30pm via bbsdocumentary.com
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  Jim Harrer — Creator of the Wildcat! Bulletin Board System (BBS). (9/1/87)
  Posted 10/8/10 at 10:48am via wikipedia.org
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  Jim Harrer — Founded Mustang Software, Inc (9/15/86)
  Posted 10/8/10 at 10:47am via wikipedia.org

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Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) [edit]
BBS Documentary (bbsdocumentary.com) [edit]
Highbean Research (highbeam.com) [edit]
Business Wire (findarticles.com) [edit]
AllBusiness.com (allbusiness.com) [edit]
Business Week (investing.businessweek.com) [edit]
Business Week (investing.businessweek.com) [edit]
SEC Info (secinfo.com) [edit]
Corporate Meetings (meetingsnet.com) [edit]
PressReleasePoint (pressreleasepoint.com) [edit]
Business Wire (businesswire.com) [edit]
MarketWatch (marketwatch.com) [edit]
VentureBox (venturebox.org) [edit]