FACTPOINT - Key Persons
Dave has over 25 years' experience in senior level management, marketing, product management, and sales positions.
Dave co-founded The FactPoint Group in 2001 to help technology companies create high-impact products that solve real customer needs and to design marketing and sales enablement efforts that grab customers' attention.
Dave has a great deal of success in defining early adopter markets and has done so for clients including Adobe, EMC, Seagate Technology, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Lotus, Microsoft, Oracle, Verizon, and for many start-ups like YouSendIt and ITM Software.
Larry co-founded FactPoint (formerly Internet Research Group) in 1992, and by 1999 helped build it into an Inc. 500 that served a world class list of clients. Today he assists Fortune 500 clients as well as start-ups with strategic market entry and new opportunity identification. Until mid-2001, he was a Jupiter Research Fellow with the Jupiter Media Metrix's Custom Research Division before re-establishing The FactPoint Group as a separate entity dedicated to creating business improvement for its clients. He directs consulting engagements and some multi-vendor studies such as E-Business 2000, a landmark study that segmented 12 industries for E-business. He has more than 16 years' experience in marketing and new business development. Prior to his consulting career, he spent 8 years with GTE Spacenet in management positions in product marketing and network planning. He holds a BS degree from the Syracuse University School of Management.
Tim met the other FactPoint partners after their respective companies were jointly acquired by Jupiter Media Metrix in March 2000. Before The FactPoint Group acquisition, he had been vice president at Net Market Makers, a Berkeley-based firm that did pioneering B2B research and market development. Prior to that, Tim was a reporter and editor for 24 years, working as senior editor and e-commerce columnist for CNET's News.com, Interactive Week and Advertising Age. He also has been an editor at San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Business Times, and Palo Alto Weekly. In addition to his role as a FactPoint partner, he is the author of B2Bwatch, FactPoint's electronic newsletter of news and analysis of Internet commerce. Tim's background as a journalist and B2B commerce analyst has earned him a respected byline in the industry. He holds a AB (with honors) in history from Stanford University.