Chris Maresca

About

I am a consultant, adviser and interim executive helping business leaders and investors develop breakaway growth and innovation strategies.

Over the last 15 years, I have achieved this by developing and introducing new business models and technologies to new marketplaces, occasionally creating the ecosystem in the process. My clients include 30 Global 1000 companies, 60+ startup companies, three national governments and several widely known foundations.

My current focus is helping mature companies evaluate their core differentiators, understanding key business drivers and leveraging communities within the business lifecycle. I also continue to work with startup companies where I have board and/or advisory positions, helping them on business and technology strategies, as well as investor introductions.

I'm always open to discussing new ventures or opportunities. Feel free to contact me at chris [at] chrismaresca [dot] com or via one of the social networks I am on:

For my background, have a look at my current and past clients, my client quotes or more information about me.

Currently Advising

Over the years, I have been an adviser to numerous organizations. Here is a list of organizations I am currently advising:

Stealth Startup
[________] provides a cloud-based platform for construction inspection and signoff on large (> $250 million) construction projects.

New Earth
New Earth maintains an open source lifecyle assessment database. It enables companies to evaluate energy, environmental, carbon and other impacts of their products and processes. The company was founded by Greg Norris, a world renowned Professor of Public Health at Harvard University.

ChikPea
ChikPea is a cloud-based billing provider. It enables companies to build complex product packages and bill them with various forms of fixed or usage-based subscriptions.

International Characters
International Characters has developed patented technology to accelerate stream-based character/text processing using x86 instruction sets, reducing processing time, computational load and power requirements.

Colligent
Colligent provides the music and advertising industries with an advanced social networking metrics, enabling managers quickly understand trends and develop targeted action plans. Clients include Sony, CBS, Hollywood Records and Razor & Tie.

Goldeneye
Goldeneye is a new generation ERP for automotive dealerships that streamlines both dealership operations and customer experience.

Archives

• The Untracktable Problem of Hollywood
• Listening to the Numbers
• The Hard Work of Social Media
• Client Success – Wavemaker
• VC Math – Or why you’ll never get funding…
• Startup growth metrics for Silicon Valley
• What I look for in a pitch
• Choosing a VPS hosting provider
• Hosted Email – Update #1
• Things that live on forever….
• Hosted email – The task of finding a provider…
• TEDxSV – Not inspiring
• Thunderbird 3 on Mac OSX – Not so great
• The problem with biometrics
• VCs may be exempt from new financial regulations
• New healthcare plan ignores small businesses
• Obama as Nobel-laureate – Not popular
• 34 banks miss TARP dividend payments
• Cisco’s Globalization Strategy – One year on
• Oracle and Sun – A good fit
• Five ways to survive a downturn
• World in Transition
• Open source and government – A 15 year adventure
• Motion theory, markets and the speed of information
• Deficit Spending for Profit
• Open Source – The Walmart Effect?
• Bad times good for Open Source?
• Precision vs mass manufacturing
• When electric cars were the future
• Free WiFi harder than expected
• High power in small things
• Patent rulings since 2000 invalid?
• Brazil as VC hotspot?
• Failure: Open Source & OLPC
• Tesla & why startups fail
• Tesla vs Fisker – The battle for the electric car…
• Skype, the GPL and the courts
• The coming Linux desktop?
• Linux only 10% of US datacenter installs?
• Open Source vs Intellectual Property Misconceptions