AV Labs Announces Tim Harmon as Venture Fellow; Experienced Technology Executive Joins AV Labs From Exterprise.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2001 AV Labs, the venture capital accelerator accelerator: see particle accelerator. (1) A key combination such as Alt-G or Ctrl-Shift H that is used to activate a task. (2) An incubator that expects to develop the company considerably faster than normal. See incubator. based in Austin, Texas, announced today that Tim Harmon, formerly Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy at Exterprise, has joined the firm as a Venture Fellow. The Venture Fellow program is unique to AV Labs, providing portfolio companies with access to world-class entrepreneurial en·tre·pre·neur n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. [French, from Old French, from entreprendre, to undertake; see enterprise. operating talent. Prior to joining AV Labs, Tim served as Vice President of Marketing & Product Strategy at Exterprise, a leading B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business collaboration software See collaborative software. company, which was acquired by Commerce One. Tim led Exterprise's product strategy, definition, and positioning efforts for this rapidly growing start-up. Before joining Exterprise, he held a number of executive positions at industry analyst and vendor companies, including META Group, Business Objects, Prodea, and Sybase. Tim was also founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Datura datura, n See jimsonweed. Datura a genus of toxic plants in the family Solanaceae; contain tropane alkaloids including hyoscine (scopolamine), hyoscyamine, atropine which cause excitement, restlessness, pupillary dilation, dryness , a DBA utilities vendor, which was acquired by Platinum Technology Platinum Technology Inc. was founded by Andrew Filipowski in 1987 to market and support deployment of Database Management software products and the applications enabled by database management technology and render related services. . "AV Labs has the best formula I've seen for getting concepts off the drawing board and up and running as viable, successful early stage companies," said Harmon. "I look forward to applying my early-stage growth experience and industry insight to the melding of management teams, ideas, and business processes to build some of Austin's best startups." "Tim is an outstanding addition to our team; he has start-up, large company, and industry analyst experience. This unique combination further rounds out the skill set available to our portfolio companies," said Rob Adams, managing director of AV Labs. "Much of the risk in early stage start-ups is in the area of market strategy. This is Tim's background and his experience and track record will bring tremendous value to our portfolio companies." About AV Labs AV Labs is an early stage venture fund focused on seed and first round investments in infrastructure and enterprise software products and services. AV Labs focuses on companies where the differentiation AV Labs delivers -- executive operating talent and experienced entrepreneurs -- makes a significant difference in a company's time to market. The firm can be reached through its Web site at www.avlabs.com or info@avlabs.com. |
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