Media
I like doing radio and TV on my topics, meaning business planning, starting a business, small business, and growing a business. You can contact me directly for this or go through the Palo Alto Software media agency in the Contact page.
Media clips and recent interviews:
- I’m one of SBTV’s featured experts, meaning there is a Tim Berry Page on SBTV offering a series of video interviews on topics related to planning, small business, startups, family business, and growing a business. There are more than a dozen separate video interviews, all done in 2007.
- I’m a regular on Jim Blasingame’s Small Business Advocate radio talk show.
- Plan-as-you-go business planning interview in Small Business Trends, from November 2007.
- The Wall Street Journal wrote about me changing jobs in Tips on Relinquishing Control from an Executive Who Did So in October of 2007.
- Interviewed by WebProNews at eBay Live in Boston, June 2007.
- Interviewed by Guy Kawasaki for his blog, July, 2007.
- Interviewed in Forbes.com.
The One-Line Bio:
President and founder of Palo Alto Software, co-founder of Borland International, founder of bplans.com, author of books and software, teacher of entrepreneurship, blogger, father of five, married 38 years.
The Short Bio:
I’m president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International. I built Palo Alto Software from zero to 40 employees and 70% market share without outside investment. I built the management team that now runs it while I’m blogging, teaching, and writing. I teach starting a business at the University of Oregon. I am author of books and software including Business Plan Pro, published by Palo Alto Software, and The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan, published by Entrepreneur Press. I have a Stanford MBA degree and degrees with honors from the University of Oregon and the University of Notre Dame.
Photos and bios for publication purposes:
Available for download in the Photos page and the bios page.
Suggested interview questions:
Not that I like to get questions in advance; I’d rather wing it. However, people ask, so here is a list of suggested interview questions.
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No offense, but I just connected to Borland’s website using the link provided above and you are not mentioned anywhere, let alone as a “co-founder”.
The “co-founders” listed are:
Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, and Mogens Glad
There is no mention of you. Please explain.
No offense taken … I might do a blog post on it some day, but it’s probably just self serving. Here’s the correct information, from Wikipedia, the same page I link to and you mention, in section 1.1 foundations, the second paragraph:
That’s at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland
Which of course doesn’t prove anything, but it’s true, and my suggestion if you want to dig further is to ask Philippe Kahn, the founder. Or you could also consult the book “Fire in the Valley,” by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swain, second edition, beginning with a quote from me on page 196, at the beginning of the Borland chapter. I was one of four members of the original founding board, and I remained on the board until the company went public in 1986. I was never an employee, however.
Borland has been bought and sold by investors several times over since Phillippe left. The company has no incentive to keep accurate history on its website. Although the three they do mention, Neils, Ole, and Mogens, were absolutely critical to the success from the very beginning — they were the actual programmers who did the real work.
Thanks for checking.
Tim
Tim,
I knew most of the people who were at Borland in their early years. I heard your name once or twice, as someone in the background, maybe having to do with consulting to the company. However, maybe you could clear-up the “co-founder” aspect by writing about the actual things you did at the company as co-founder. I think that would be interesting, even for me. I think I also remember another Berry who had some connection with the company, perhaps a lawyer, or ??
Ted.
Thanks Ted. Fascinating. Here I am commenting on my own bio, one of the little considered benefits (or disadvantages, possibly) of the comment facility in a blog-based platform. I did write my favorite story about the early days at Borland, in True Story: Entrepreneur Meets MBA, Do we all Undervalue Bootstrapping, Mistakes about Mistakes, and Is Startup Life Life? on my main blog. Oh, and yes, that other Berry, the lawyer? My brother, Frank.