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ESTHER DYSON
INTERNET GURU
Esther Dyson has devoted her life to discovering the inevitable and promoting the possible. As an investor/commentator, she focuses on emerging technologies and business models (peer-to-peer, artificial intelligence, the Internet, wireless applications), emerging markets (Eastern Europe) and emerging companies (Cybiko, Sourceree, Trustworks, CV-Online, GreaterTalent.com, Brunswicks Direct , Newspaper Direct, IBS, and others you will someday hear of). In 1994, she was one of the first to explore the impact of the Net on intellectual property (among other things, why Bill Gates now plans to offer software as an online service). In 1997, she wrote a book on the impact of the Net on individuals’ lives, Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age.
Dyson is the chairman of EDventure Holdings which publishes the influential monthly computer-industry newsletter, Release 1.0, and sponsors two of the industry’s premier annual conferences, PC (Platforms for Communications) Forum in the US and EDventure’s High-Tech Forum in Europe.
In addition, she donates time and money as a trustee to emerging organizations (the Santa Fe Institute, the Eurasia Foundation and bridges.org). In November 2001, she finished a two-year-term as founding chairman of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international agency charged with setting policy for the Internet’s core infrastructure (technical standards and the Domain Name System) independent of government control. After graduating from Harvard in economics, Dyson began her serious career in 1974 as a fact-checker for Forbes and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977 she joined New Court Securities as “the research department”, following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, and renamed it EDventure Holdings.
The daughter of an English physicist and a Swiss mathematician, Dyson started traveling in Eastern Europe in 1989 and eventually helped to fill the small but vital vacuum at the intersection of Eastern Europe, high-tech and venture capital.
Esther’s portfolio of active investments includes:
APP Group
asp1000
Audumbla
Aurigin
Brightmail
Brunswick Direct
CitySoft
CV-Online
Cybiko
EcoCap
GotMarketing.com
Graphisoft
GreaterTalent.com
Internet Publishing Group
IBS
iGabriel.net
Infomarkets
Interprovider
IT Global Source
Keysystem
Legion Crowd Dynamics
Living Systems
Manugistics
NeoMeo
Netbureau Araneum
New World Publishing
newKnow
Newspaper Direct
Nibblebox
Orbitz
Orchestream
Ovusoft
Paymentor
PGLife
Prediction Company
Pressflex
RealUser
RedDot
Scala Business Solutions
Sourceree
StageCast
Tacit Knowledge
TerraLink Technologies
Trustworks
Uncommon Goods
Vault.com
WPP Group
wpp.com
Zaplet
Zedo
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- The Future of High Technology
- A Design for Living in the Digital Age
