Jim Long

Jim Long

Vorstandsvorsitzender bei Didja, Inc.

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Mr. Jim Long is Partner at Gabriel Venture Partners.
Prior to joining Gabriel Venture Partners in 2007, Mr. Long has been an advisor for several start-ups such as Ruckus Wireless, Skipper Wireless (mesh nets & VoIP), Coghead (SaaS for the long tail), and Jibe Networks (acquired by Citrix).
Previously, Mr. Long was the CEO of RioPort, a leading music application service provider (ASP) via its digital distribution infrastructure and MP3 player software.
RioPort, powered MTV.com, Best-Buy.com, Yahoo, HP, Nike.com, and Microsoft; was the first Internet Company to license digital songs for resale from all five major record labels and enabled the first music cell-phones via a partnership with Nokia.
Before joining RioPort, Mr. Long was the CEO and Founder of Starlight Networks.
Starlight pioneered video streaming and video multicasting with award-winning Intranet video infrastructure software and coined the term, "streaming video".
Mr. Long is known as the "father" of that industry.
Starlight provided Internet video communications products for Fortune 2000 businesses including Smith Barney, General Electric, Bloomberg, Viacom, Disney, Harvard, and Peoplesoft.
Starlight Networks was the leader in the corporate video streaming market when it was acquired by PictureTel in November 1998.
Later, he helped transition the business to PictureTel by developing a SaaS business strategy.
Mr. Long has also worked with various venture capital firms and start-ups.
He was instrumental in the successful turn-around of Tolerant Systems to Veritas Software, a leader in the storage management software market.
Mr. Long began his career in software development and product marketing at Hewlett Packard where he invented the first presentation graphics application.
Later, he spent four years as a venture manager for Fred Adler Venture Capital.
Mr. Long earned an MBA with Distinction from Harvard University and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

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