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HyperMedia Consultant Network

HyperMedia Consultant Network. First Meeting. 09 September 1993. International House of Pancakes. 11223 Katy Freeway. Houston, Texas. Steve Starr, Chairman. 01. HyperMedia Corporation History. • Technology History. • Business History. • Vision, Mission, Values.

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HyperMedia Consultant Network

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  1. HyperMedia Consultant Network First Meeting 09 September 1993 International House of Pancakes 11223 Katy Freeway Houston, Texas Steve Starr, Chairman 01

  2. HyperMedia Corporation History • Technology History • Business History • Vision, Mission, Values • Benefits from Participation • The neXt Step 02

  3. 1987 Terry Smith at Landmark Graphics initiates development of a hypertext useage manual by Dr. Dennis Moreau at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Technology History 1988 Roice Nelson gets funding for USL to turn the usage manual into a hypermedia tool to build a Stratigraphic Atlas. 1989 Andrew Dove specifies how the stratigraphic atlas can become a general hypermedia tool, and becomes the designer working with USL. 1990 Andrew Dove, who is working for John Amason and with Terry Smith is terminated by Landmark Graphics Corporation. The hypermedia software goes into a cocoon. 1991 Andrew Dove joins HyperMedia eXchange Corporation as manager of Product Development, and hires Ron Szabo who is finishing a Masters Degree in hypertext at Texas A&M. Steve Starr joins HXC as an Oil & Gas application specialist. 1992 Russell Herron joins HXC as Vice-President of Product Development. HXC collapses to one software engineer, Ron Szabo, and one petroleum specialist, Charley Rego. The corporation is renamed HyperMedia Corporation (HMC). Four consultants spend several man-months in Saudi Arabia. 1993 Ron Szabo completes HyperEdge Release 1.1. John Amason (1) builds tools to allow automatic updating of HyperJournals for subscribers across INTERNET; (2) builds a scaled hardcopy tool, HMC Hardcopy; and (3) builds an interface allowing HMC to be a GUI front-end to SQL databases. The HyperMedia Consultants Network is born on 09 September 1993. 03

  4. 1990 The hypermedia software goes into a cocoon, and Roice Nelson starts negotiations to transfer title to Walden 3-D, Inc. This is complete in September of 1990. The day after, Roice and Bill Rollwitz have breakfast at the Denny's at I-10 and Highway 6, and start working on a business plan. Business History 1991 Hypermedia eXchange Corporation is formed on the day the United States bombs Iraq, 16January 1991. Bill Rollwitz starts working full-time for HXC and leaves Price-Waterhouse. John Mouton and Alex Massad invest and join the Board of Directors. A technology trading contract is signed with NASA and work is started to support the AUTOLIB. Attempts to raise Venture Capital Money are not successful. About $350,000 dollars are invested by indivuals and Roice Nelson guarantees a line of credit with founders shares of Landmark Graphics stock. The company has a good show at the SEG, grows to 17 employees and gets the first contract for software and services with Saudi Aramco. 1992 The software product is immature, there is not enough capital to compete as a products company, and anticipated sales do not materialize. A single license is sold to Exxon Production Research. Landmark stock goes from $26 per share to $8 per share and the line-of-credit is way under capitalized. The company is cut back to 10 employees and then back to 2 employees by mid-summer. The consulting contract with Saudi Aramco is used to attempt to sell a software site license. 1993 The Saudi sale is promised but does not generate cash until September of 1993. In the meantimethe Saudi consulting operation is transferred to Abdulla Fouad Corporation, the Saudi Agent. Landmark stock comes back up to $20 per share and the bank loan is payed off. Roice's ownership goes from 50% to 80%. The Saudi sale allows all other debts to be paid. The Landmark Consultant Network is born and HMC goes to its second SEG. An interrum contract is signed to support the Global Basins Research Network (GBRN). 04

  5. Unlocking Information Barriers Vision, Mission, Values HyperMedia Corporation supports mission critical knowledge-workers with state-of-the-art asset management tools, procedures and schools; allowing non-programmers: (1) to move beyond the collection and production of data to providing meaning to multiple types of data by means of interactive capture, annotation, linking, cataloging, and retrieval of unlimited data; (2) to create new information that can be used to inform others and to create new ideas; and (3) to build a digital corporate memory during the process. No one shall take unfair advantage of a fellow member of the HyperMedia Consultant Network. 05

  6. Benefits from Participation Consultants get: • High quality people contact • 15% of all sales of HyperEdge Tools • Marketing of consulting expertize • Access to a new kind of information management software tool, a set of mind tools that, like glasses, correct vision and extend the mind • Training in hypermedia technologies • RunTime HyperJournals of products and services that have available as a consultant • Access to HyperMedia's library and to all HyperJournals created by other consultants • A war room for collaborative skunk works • An advantage as a consultant • Justification to charge more per hour work • A means of obtaining an economy of scale • Experience with IDEF activity modeling • Exposure to ISO-9000 and TQM (Total Quality Management • Opportunity to belong to an elite group doing worthwhile things. HyperMedia gets: • 5% of consulting fees from jobs that come as a result of HyperMedia's marketing • Access to opportunities identified by the HyperMedia Consultants Network • Increased cash income through new sales and increased maintenance income • 8 hours of volunteer work per consultant per month, in addition to feedback from the networking breakfasts • Enhancement recommendations for various HyperEdge software tools • New HyperEdge tools that consultants want to distribute the the HyperMedia Consultants Network channel • An opportunity to demonstrate a new way to do business, the virtual corporation 06

  7. The neXt Step Identify key sales opportunities and close some business: • RunTime HyperJournal to market oil & gas fields • A base map tied to data assets for explorationists • A property chart, instantly showing asset distribution • A drilling chart with where rigs are and what they have encountered, including an up to date type log • A RIMS (reservoir information management system) • A RIMS (regional information management system) • Remote medical diagnostics • Software subsystem in another product Define tool enhancement path: • Move software into a GUI interface builder • Implement SQL interface • Prepare to take advantage of NREN • 3-D graphics and 3-D hyperlink anchors One level pyramid, where you benefit for an agreed time for business brought in by a consultant you recruit to the network? 07

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