James D. Price
Founding Partner
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Jim Price is a serial entrepreneur and business educator
with over two decades of broad-ranging business management and technology
startup experience. In 2000, following a string of entrepreneurial
adventures that included a successful company sale, an IPO, and
multiple angel investments, he founded CompanyCrafters with the
vision of applying his “useful scar tissue” to help
others launch and grow successful businesses.
As an entrepreneur, Jim has served as a principle founder
and either CEO or Chairman of the following tech startups:
Transom Technologies Inc. (a simulation
software company founded in 1996, sold to Engineering Animation,
now UGS, in 1998); MAXfunds.com Inc.
(an online financial services venture founded
in 1999); and Cielo MedSolutions LLC
(a healthcare IT firm founded in
2005). From 1988 to 1996, as VP of marketing with Mechanical
Dynamics, Inc., Jim was a member of the management team that
guided the engineering software vendor from $3 million to
$25 million in annual revenue and through a successful IPO
in 1996. Prior to that, he worked for several years in the
Boston/128 area serving in senior business development and
marketing management positions for Fortune 500 technology
companies. At the outset of his career, Jim spent five years
in management consulting.
Jim currently serves on the boards of Cielo MedSolutions,
Soar Technology (www.soartech.com), and the Zell-Lurie Institute
for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan's
Ross School of Business. He also teaches
entrepreneurial studies as an adjunct lecturer at UM's Ross
School. He is a frequent public speaker and has authored numerous
papers and articles on various entrepreneurship and business
management topics. Jim holds a BA degree in government, environmental
sciences and jazz from Oberlin College, and an MBA degree
from Stanford University.
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