Charles Stack Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Oh Ohio, Us

Cleveland, Oh Ohio, Us

Flashstarts is a startup accelerator. Simple concept. 12 teams. 12 weeks. You get $50,000. We get 8% equity. 50 Mentors. 50 Angel investors. Together we build great companies.Rapidly iterating our way to becoming a World Class Startup Accelerator. Applications are now open. We can't guarantee acceptance but we guarantee feedback.Entrepreneurs, interns, and mentors should visit http://www.flashstarts.com. Investors should visit our investor portal at http://www.flashstarts.net.

Bitcoin for Billions is a non-profit organization (applying for US 501(c)(3) status) dedicated to promoting and enabling the adoption of bitcoin and the lightning network to bring economic empowerment to the world's 8 billion people.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

North Coast Angel Fund. One of the largest committed capital funds in the US. Occasional involvement in screening committee, due diligence process, and side car investment.

Startmart is a startup/co-working community located in 35,000 sq. ft. in Downtown Cleveland. The second largest coworking space in the US. Special availability during the 2016 RNC.

Ohio Venture Association http://www.ohioventure.org . Frequent speaker on early stage venture investing.

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Digital apps, magazine, and ebook publisher primarily on the Apple iPhone and iPad. Noteworthy products: SkyMall Catalog - largest iPhone database ever, 14,000 records. Sideways Magazine - 5,000 copies / month. Official Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 600 Songs app, 15 Peter Rabbit Read-Aloud books (our bestsellers). David Roberts - won QED award. 8 Titles selected as New & Noteworthy. 5 top ten ebooks within their category. Lesson learned: great team, hard work, quality products, good press, and industry awards don't always result in profitability.

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Fortune 1000 Company. VP Web Services Group. P&L responsibility. Public face for BEA web services solutions. Global customer, press, and analyst presentations. Frequent speaker at enterprise architecture conferences. Won Best Presentation at 300 speaker BEA World. 200,000 frequent flyer miles. 100 frequent sleeper nights.

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Enterprise software vendor ($250k-$750k). Web Services management tools. Gartner listed Magic Quadrant recommended solution. Pioneered concept of web services. Very early adopter of Agile software development methods. The greatest group of people I have ever been privileged to work with. (90%+ employee retention over 7 years). Acquired by BEA July 2006 / Oracle Jan 2008 for ~US$50 million.We also funded the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashline_Mars_Arctic_Research_Station

Fortune 500 company. VP Internet commerce division. P&L responsibility. In 1997 we opened 6 internet retail stores from scratch within 6 months. The month after I left, a massive ten year accounting fraud was uncovered, the stock lost $14 Billion in value, and my bosses went to jail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUC_International#Accounting_scandalI learned too many lessons to list in my short time there.

In 1991 I had a concept for building a virtual bookstore. With the help of some great programmers we launched the first online bookstore in January 1992.Business grew slowly at first, but that allowed time to create an entire shipping/fulfillment system. The first pc web browsers were released in 1993. We added web functionality and business exploded.For a more complete story from a July 2017 podcast go here: http://thisneweconomy.com/episodes/the-untold-story-of-books-com/First Internet retailer. Multiple ecommerce patents. Acquired by CUC/B&N May 1996.

Enterprise Software: Law Firms, Corporate Law Departments. Asbestos Case Management Systems.Parallax was the leading provider of Asbestos Case Management Software in the world. We provided our ACMS system to over 40 law firms and 10 major corporations involved in asbestos litigation. This was the most complex litigation process in history with over 2,000 defendants and 500,000 claimants.The Parallax ACMS system enjoyed many, many firsts: The first asbestos system, the first complex litigation system; the first pc-based multi-site case management system; the first system to manage more than 100 defendants; the first system to manage mass torts; the first PC-based distributed database; and many others.Free cash flow from Parallax was used to fund Books.com.

Doctor Of Law (Jd), Intellectual Property

Online Courses, Blockchain

Architecture

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

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