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He is the founder and chairman of Palo Alto Software and bplans.com.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsHistory[edit]Education and teaching[edit]Writings and publications[edit]Family and personal[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]History[edit]Berry was born and raised in the U.S., but moved with his wife to Mexico City in 1971 where he worked as a wire service journalist for United Press International and then wrote for McGraw-Hill and Businessweek for five years.[1][2] In 1976, betting on the devaluation of the peso, he and his wife put up $1000 and borrowed $4000 for a quarter-acre lot.[1] After the peso lost its value in 1979, they sold the lot for $22,000 and used that money to help with as tuition at Stanford’s business school. While at Stanford, Berry worked as a market research consultant for Creative Strategies International and began creating his own business planning software.[1] He earned his MBA in 1981.[2]After graduating, Berry founded his own consulting practice in 1983. His clients included Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Ashton-Tate, Lotus Development Corporation, and others.[1] That same year, he met Phillippe Kahn and helped draft a business plan that led to the launch of Borland International.[1][3] In 1983, Berry founded his company, then called “Infoplan”; the name was changed to Palo Alto Software in 1988.[4] The company started out selling business plan templates, supplemented by Berry’s consulting, mostly focused on doing business in Latin America.[2] The company moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1992[2] and almost was bankrupt by 1994; Berry had three mortgages and $65,000 in credit card debt.[5][6] In 1994, the company released the first version of its Business Plan Pro software,[1] was created by programmers working for equity.[5] The software assisted users in creating business plans instead of simply providing templates, and was sold through retails stores; it became a successful product, with $2M in sales in the first year.[5][7] In 1995, Berry launched BPlans.com as resource for small businesses.[6] In 2000 the company had $5M in revenue and 35 employees, but with the crash of the dot-com bubble revenue fell and the company had to lay off five employees.[6][8]Sales recovered, and in 2010 the company had $10M in annual revenue.[9] In that year, Berry’s daughter, Sabrina Parsons, took over as CEO,[10] and Berry began devoting this time to blogging, teaching, and writing.[8]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Education and teaching[edit]Berry received an MBA from Stanford University. He earned an MA from the University of Oregon, and a BA from the University of Notre Dame.[11]Berry served as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Oregon.[12]Writings and publications[edit]Berry contributes content to various business-oriented websites, as well as his own blog[13] and has become well known as an entrepreneur on Twitter.[14][15][16]He is the author of the following books:Berry, Tim (August 17, 2015). Lean Business Planning: Get What You Want From Your Business. Motivational Press. ISBN\u00a09781628652130.Berry, Tim (2010). Sales and Market Forecasting for Entrepreneurs (Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Collection). Business Expert Press. pp.\u00a0137 pages. ISBN\u00a0978-1-6064-9041-9.Berry, Tim (2008). 3 Weeks to Startup. Entrepreneur Press. pp.\u00a0378 pages. ISBN\u00a0978-1-5991-8196-7.Berry, Tim (2008). The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan. Entrepreneur Press. pp.\u00a0270 pages. ISBN\u00a0978-1-5991-8190-5.Berry, Tim (2006). Hurdle: The Book on Business Planning. Palo Alto Software, Inc. pp.\u00a0232 pages. ISBN\u00a0978-0-9712-1852-9.Berry, Tim & Wilson, Doug (2000). On Target\u00a0: The Book on Marketing Plans. Palo Alto Software Inc. pp.\u00a0356 pages. ISBN\u00a0978-0-9664-8913-2.Berry, Tim (2000). CPA’s Guide to Developing Effective Business Plans. Harcourt Brace Professional Pub. pp.\u00a0300 pages. ISBN\u00a0978-0-1560-6295-4.Berry, Tim (1989). Tim Berry’s business plan toolkit. Palo Alto Software. pp.\u00a0152 pages. ASIN\u00a0B00072ELLA.Berry, Tim (1985). Jazz: The Inside Track (A Byte Book). Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media. pp.\u00a0256 pages. ISBN\u00a0978-0-0700-5064-8.Berry, Tim (1984). Working smart with electronic spreadsheets: Models for managers. Hayden. pp.\u00a0182 pages. ISBN\u00a0978-0-8104-6203-8.Family and personal[edit]Berry has been married to his wife since 1970. He has five children.[7]References[edit]^ a b c d e f Brett Nelson (September 26, 2005). “Palo Alto Software Founder”. Forbes. Retrieved December 11, 2012.^ a b c d Sramana Mitra for the One Million by One Million Blog July 25, 2012 A $14M Bootstrapped Family Business in Eugene, Oregon: Palo Alto Software Founder Tim Berry and CEO Sabrina Parsons (Part 1)^ Tom Taulli (March 15, 2006). “Business Plans Gone Wild”. Forbes. Retrieved December 11, 2012.^ “Company Overview of Palo Alto Software, Inc”. Investing Business Week. Bloomberg. Retrieved July 25, 2015.^ a b c Sramana Mitra for the One Million by One Million Blog July 25, 2012 A $14M Bootstrapped Family Business in Eugene, Oregon: Palo Alto Software Founder Tim Berry and CEO Sabrina Parsons (Part 2)^ a b c Sramana Mitra for the One Million by One Million Blog July 25, 2012 A $14M Bootstrapped Family Business in Eugene, Oregon: Palo Alto Software Founder Tim Berry and CEO Sabrina Parsons (Part 3)^ a b “Ask An Entrepreneur”. Sprouter. March 20, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2012.^ a b Sramana Mitra for the One Million by One Million Blog July 25, 2012 A $14M Bootstrapped Family Business in Eugene, Oregon: Palo Alto Software Founder Tim Berry and CEO Sabrina Parsons (Part 4)^ Sramana Mitra for the One Million by One Million Blog July 25, 2012 A $14M Bootstrapped Family Business in Eugene, Oregon: Palo Alto Software Founder Tim Berry and CEO Sabrina Parsons (Part 7)^ Interview, The BusinessMakers Radio Show. May 19, 2012 Episode 3620.  Transcript: Sabrina Parsons \u2013 Palo Alto Software^ Bloomberg Profile: Management of Palo Alto Software Page accessed July 26, 2015^ Sramana Mitra for Forbes. February 26, 2010. Why B-Schools Set Up Entrepreneurs To Fail^ Tim Berry blog postings. Page accessed July 26, 2015]^ “20 People Every Entrepreneur Should Follow On Twitter: Tim Berry”. Business Insider.^ “Twitter for Entrepreneurs: 20 to Follow: Tim Berry”. Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on August 26, 2009.^ “11 Companies to Follow on Twitter: Palo Alto Software”. The New York Times. Retrieved May 26, 2010.External links[edit]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/tim-berry-entrepreneur-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Tim Berry (entrepreneur) – Wikipedia"}}]}]