Alexander Muse

Alexander Francis Muse (born November 2, 1972), in Virginia Beach, Virginia and raised in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Katy, Texas, United States) is an entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of ShopSavvy, the world's largest mobile shopping application.[1] Currently he is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of ViewMarket.[2] Previously he founded LayerOne, a venture backed startup subsequently sold to Equinix (Switch & Data).[3] Muse is the son of Ralph Buckley Muse a successful United States business executive.[4] He is also co-founder and Chairman of Architel, an managed cloud company based in Dallas, TX. He is also a co-founder of Big in Japan, the company that built Fancast that was subsequently sold to Comcast Interactive.[5] In 2005 Muse created a reality television series called MotorSport Ranch that initially aired on INHD and can currently be seen on VOOM.[6][7] Muse maintains the popular weblog StartupMuse.[8]

ViewMarket

Founded in 2014, ViewMarket is a collection of local digital lifestyle brands, including CultureMap and RSVP Calendar, leveraging various technologies to engage with more than 3 million users each month. Robert Bennett and Alexander Muse co-founded the company after raising approximately $1M in seed capital from prominent investors including 500 Startups and Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate. The company is currently generating more than $5M in annual run-rate revenue and is actively looking for additional digital properties to grow their footprint nationally.

ShopSavvy

Founded in 2008, ShopSavvy was the winner of Google's Android Developer Challenge in that same year and was one of the first ten Android applications available to end users. ShopSavvy has been downloaded more than 40 million times and is the most popular shopping mobile shopping application on iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 . In 2011 ShopSavvy raised a $7M Series A investment led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin to expand the application's social shopping features. In 2014 the company was purchased by Purch for an undisclosed sum.

LayerOne

Prior to founding LayerOne, Muse held various sales positions with ICG Communications (metropolitan fiber provider), BBN Planet (internet backbone provider) and Broadwing (long haul fiber provider).[9] Realizing a need for each of these companies to connect to one another, Muse wrote a 300-page business plan detailing his concept for neutral interconnection points in each major city in the United States. Muse pioneered the concept of 'buy-side' interconnection, whereby carriers were encouraged to participate in 'pooling points' in major cities without upfront costs.[10][11][12] Carriers who sold connectivity were charged a monthly recurring fee based on the capacity of the connection. Within three years the company provided interconnection services to every major and most minor telecommunications companies in the United States with the notable exception of Sprint.

Architel

In 2003 Muse left LayerOne to become CEO of Architel, an information technology services company he co-founded with Scott H. Ryan in 2001.[13] Architel provides managed cloud services to medium and large sized businesses.

References

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  3. ↑ Stage 4: The People (SmartMoney Magazine) at SmartMoney.com
  4. ↑ Safeguard Security Elects New CEO. | Company Activities & Management > Company Structures & Ownership from AllBusiness.com
  5. ↑ Get Ready for PodServe (and more)
  6. ↑ Working the Net - Entrepreneur.com
  7. ↑ Alex Muse
  8. ↑ About : Startupmuse
  9. ↑ LinkedIn: Alexander Muse
  10. ↑ Transport Commerce - The Stage Is Set : Enter Liquid Bandwidth Trading
  11. ↑ http://www.cookreport.com/10.02.shtml
  12. ↑ Telco building boom: Landlords race to create space
  13. ↑ Architel Recruits New CEO to Accelerate Development | Market Wire | Find Articles at BNET.com

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