Gary Balleisen

Serial entrepreneur with multiple product development successes.

LinkedIn: http://lnkd.in/bdB6syH
Member since August 06, 2014

About

Education

1978 University California Santa Barabara PhD Candidate EE/CS

I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I want to invent something cool.

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Progress never happens as fast as you want....

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Thinking they know everything...

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

Failure is not as bad as you think....but it's still not an option.

Full bio

I have been responsible for the founding and the development of multiple technology businesses which have afforded experiences with strategic planning, financing, budgeting, marketing and product development. The focus of the business experience has been substantially involved in commercial software products. This experience extends to hardware development as well. Additional experience in all aspects of the product development lifecycle including:

- Business formation and development.
- Business process capture.
- Requirements formulation, specifications and schedule/resource preparation.
- Architecture, design and technology evaluation.
- Building development teams.
- Product development and testing.
- Documentation preparation.
- Product delivery and post-launch product support.
- Operational support.