Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Scott Goldman - A Career of "Firsts"

  • 1975 - Became the top salesperson for LIN Communications in NY, selling pagers (called "Beepers" back then because, well, all they could do was beep. Average sales were 200% of the staff average.
  • 1978 - LIN, the first-ever paging licensee in the United States, asks me to open their first-ever branch office in Houston, Texas.  Delivered cash-flow positive results with only one operational antenna. 
  • 1980 - Recruited by Radio Relay in Dallas and developed the first telemarketing program for sales of pagers.  Sales skyrocket. 
  • 1982 - Joined Compucon, the premiere provider of cellular engineering and marketing research services, helping to secure licenses worth hundreds of millions of dollars for our clients.
  • 1983 - Submitted the first-ever testimony to the FCC in a cellular comparative hearing, helping to sway the decision in favor of Rogers Radio, Inc., bought shortly thereafter by Metromedia in the first wave of their cellular buying spree.
  • 1984 - Make history-setting presentation to the Japanese Ministry of Post and Telecommunication, helping to set the stage for first steps toward telecom deregulation.
  • 1985 - Author the first-ever analysis of spectrum requirements for the wireless industry, helping to convince the FCC to allocate an additional 30 MHz of spectrum for cellular services. 
  • 1986 - Author "The Cooper Report", the first-ever analysis of real cellular user subscriber patterns. 
  • 1987 - Join with Marty Cooper and Arlene Harris in Chicago to develop the first-ever cellular credit card phone.  The technology is developed and later sold to GTE. 
  • 1989 - Launched "The Goldman Group" and began providing strategic planning, analytical and marketing planning services to major wireless corporations including BellSouth, Ameritech, Oki, Motorola and many others. 
  • 1992 - Helped launch Optus in Australia, the first-ever competitor to the government-sanctioned monopoly (Telecom Australia).  Sales, number of employees, revenues and all other measurable items hit the stratosphere within the first year. 
  • 1995 - Launched the first-ever electronic news service for the wireless industry, WirelessNOW.  Ultimately sold this business to The Strategis Group, which was then sold to the Daily Mail Group of London. 
  • 1999 - Launched the first-ever web site for selling wireless phones, accessories and service, called "BuyWireless.com" (this domain name was later sold to another company that operates a similar web site now). 
  • 2000 - Wrote "Ask The Wireless Wizard" - the first-ever textbook designed for non-technical members of the industry.  The book sells throughout the U.S. and Canada as a teaching aide and a companion CD is made for it with me telling stories about the industry's history, technology and future. 
  • 2001 - Recruited as the first-ever CEO of The WAP Forum, a global standards organization dedicated to making WAP a worldwide standard. 
  • 2004 - Recruited as President and COO of go2 Systems, delivering the first real-time updated directory of businesses via mobile devices. 
  • 2006 - Sold "BuyWireless.com" domain name.
  • 2007 - Sold "GoWireless.com" domain name.
  • 2007 - Launches "TheWirelessWizard.com", a web site dedicated to providing tips, tricks, shortcuts and answers to everday questions from non-technical cellular phone users. 
  • 2008 - Launches TextPower - a text messaging company that provides gateway, messaging and a library of vertical market software for integration with enterprise and backoffice systems.  Develops "TextKey™" - the first-ever two-factor authentication tool using mobile-originated SMS in a patent-pending solution to secure web sites. 
  • 2009 - Becomes advisor to Parking In Motion - a startup addressing the parking problem by helping people navigate "the last hundred feet" to an available spot. The first time real-time parking information is delivered to mobile and navigation devices.
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