In Summary...
  • Launched several best-selling software products that became #1 in their category

  • Awards: Responsible for products winning hundreds of “Editors’ Choice,” “Product of the Year,” and similar elite industry awards

  • Generated thousands of articles in newspapers, magazines, TV, and Radio, including:
    • Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post,
      San Jose Mercury News, etc.
    • PC World, PC Magazine, C/Net, ZDNet, eWeek, InfoWorld, etc.
    • CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, etc.
    • Hundreds of local TV and radio stations

  • Successfully created new categories for unknown products, and turned unknown products into category winner

 

The VisibilityBlast Principals have been responsible for the success of:

HARDWARE

ARDAT/Conner Peripherals (acquired by Seagate)
Archive Python DAT drive

Hewlett-Packard Company
The first color ink-jet printer.

Nutek Computers
The first Macintosh Clone (operating system and chip set).

Media Vision Technology
Line of five multimedia kits. The first portable CD-ROM player.

Radius
Video Vision Studio – the first low-cost video editing system for Macintosh and PC.

Zerox - Palo Alto Reasearch Center

SEMICONDUCTORS

Cirrus Logic
Graphics controller chips for laptop and notebook computers.

WIRELESS

Everypath
Software that enables wireless devices, cell phones and interactive television sets to display Internet web sites and corporate databases without reprogramming.

Hewlett-Packard Company
HP 95LX palmtop PC with 2-way messaging from Motorola.

Vadem
“Digital Ink” graphics controller chip for pen-based
handheld computers.

PERSONAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE

Claris
Claris Filemaker Pro database for Macintosh.

CyberMedia (acquired by Network Associates)
Bestselling software for “automatic service and support”, internet security and AntiVirus -- First Aid, Uninstaller, Guard Dog and Oil Change.

Enfish Technology
One Space Internet search engine software.

Fifth Generation Systems/Symantec
FastBack Plus
Suitcase II

Peter Norton Computing
Norton Utilities 4.5

Phoenix Technologies
FirstWare Rescue -- automatic rescue and recovery software.

Symantec Corporation
Norton Desktop for Windows
Norton Antivirus
Norton Utilities for Macintosh

TouchStone Software
PC-cillin Anti-Virus
CheckIt Diagnostic

ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE

AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) Project
“Alice,” the first artificial intelligence chat robot – www.alicebot.org.

ASK Computer Systems/Ingres (Acquired by Computer Associates)
Ingres RDBMS, corporate enterprise software and database tools.

Frame Technology (Acquired by Adobe.)
Framemaker document publishing software.

Sitka/TOPS (division of Sun Microsystems)
The first email system and multiplatform LAN (UNIX/Mac/PC).

Symantec Corporation
Norton Antivirus
Norton Desktop Administrator

MULTIMEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Digital Library Systems
PhoneDisc – the world’s first national phone book
on CD

Eden Interactive
Two of the first-ever multimedia CD-ROM titles:
“Greg Lemond’s Bicycle Adventure” and
“Journeys Through Art”.

Media Vision
CD-ROM entertainment software and games.

CONSUMER PRODUCTS

FST Energy
Patented hydrogen fuel cell technology for powering next-generation cars.

Admiral Envelope Manufacturing Corp.
Nation's largest manufacturer of custom translucent envelopes.

Royal Robbins Outdoorswear
Sportswear manufacturer founded by legendary mountain climber.

San Francisco Fashion Centre
San Francisco’s first development project for fashion wholesalers.