About Steve Harmon
Steve Harmon web and emerging technology entrepreneur
Steve Harmon is a founder and CEO of several successful Internet companies. His latest venture, Taleee, helps consumers discover the best places and products worldwide, more than $100 billion worth of goods and services.
As an investor with his own venture capital fund, he led the investment in Applied Semantics which created Ad Sense, later acquired by Google. In 2004 he created an international group to spearhead innovation which now has more than 2,000 engineers from India and Brazil. Steve also teaches an online class on building ventures to thousands of entrepreneurs in China where his blog is read by more than 250,000 people.
His book on building digital ventures was an international bestseller in 8 languages and 2 editions and featured many of the pioneers in the Internet industry from Marc Andreessen to Jerry Yang. Renowned venture capitalist John Doerr wrote the foreword for Steve’s book, one of the first startup books to endorse the idea of “bootstrapping” a venture vs. going after venture capital. What others said about Steve’s book:
“Read ZeroGravity2.0 or you’ll get zero traction in your fundraising efforts.” – Guy Kawasaki, Founder and CEO of Garage
“The standard has always been building profitable, DURABLE companies, something that Zero Gravity 2.0 emphasizes now more than ever.” – Vinod Khosla, Chairman, Asera Inc. and General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
I wish this book had been around when I co-founded Netscape….must-read for any entrepreneur looking at the Internet opportunity. – Marc Andreessen, Co-founder, Netscape, and co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz Ventures
Steve explains better than anyone the new metrics for success in the high velocity Internet Economy. – Ann Winblad, founding partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
[A] “how-to guide” that no entrepreneur should be without. – Bob Davis, President and CEO, Lycos, Inc., and current venture capitalist at Highland Capital Partners
Steve’s blog – now in its 17th year – is read worldwide by more than 100,000 leaders in tech, finance and media and is published in English and Chinese. He has appeared on CNBC, NBC, Bloomberg TV in the US and Nippon TV, CNBC Asia, German TV, BBC and others int’l speaking about the Internet and mobile industries. He has keynoted at Stanford, Berkeley and over a dozen industry trade shows worldwide.
“My inspiration in jumping into the web in 1994 was the potential of this new medium that would change everything, from how we consume news to how we buy things, learn, discover and more.”
Steve earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Ca. , where a scholarship is established in his name to help new students pay for their education.
Contact: steve <at> steveharmon.com