a brief bio:
Steve Harmon is founder and CEO of e-harmon.com, an integrated Internet investing/research company based in San Francisco.
Harmon was named one of the top Internet stock analysts on Wall Street by CBS.MarketWatch.com and the only independent analyst honored. Fortune magazine (June 1999) featured him as one of the pioneering Internet stock analysts, with the creation of Internet-centric securities analysis ratios, which most of Wall Street now has adopted.
Since 1994 Harmon created several new securities analysis tools for valuing digital companies, many of which are now used by Wall Street, venture capitalists and Big Six accounting firms.
His daily analysis reports are read by everyone from Bill Gates, John Doerr, Marc Andreessen, Jerry Yang, Ann Winblad, Esther Dyson, Dave Wetherell, Ted Leonsis, Halsey Minor, Chris Kitze, Bob Davis.
Ann Winblad, founding partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners says: "Steve explains better than anyone the new metrics for success in the high velocity Internet Economy."
John Doerr, the world's leading venture capitalist says: "I am a big fan of Steve Harmon's analysis."
Before launching his own firm, Harmon was Vice President of Business Development & Senior Investment Analyst for Internet.com and Mecklermedia from 1996.
Harmon's role at Internet.com and Mecklermedia (Internet.com's former parent company), was directly responsible for business and content alliances, strategic acquisitions, new products and revenue streams. In addition, Harmon created the ISDEX, Internet Stock Index, the bellwether index for Internet stocks.
With ISDEX Harmon helped spearhead the trading of ISDEX futures and options on the Kansas City Board of Trade.
A regularly-quoted analyst and well read by everyone from Bill Gates to Jerry Yang, Wall Street to Main Street, high-powered institutional traders to individual investors, Harmon has turned down several offers to join Wall Street firms in the spirit of helping to pioneer the new Internet investing era, which he has been doing since 1994.
Prior to internet.com/Mecklermedia Harmon was Senior Investment Analyst for Jupiter Communications in 1995-96 where he initiated investment coverage of Internet and media industries by creating and tracking five focused stock indices that covered more than 100 stocks.
While at Jupiter he regularly consulted technology and media firms about the Internet including Microsoft, AOL, Viacom, NEC and more. In December 1995 he authored "Internet Investment Outlook 1996" which forecast five years of Internet growth in several areas including ecommerce, emusic, broadband cable Internet, content, software, hardware among topics covered.
Before Jupiter, Steve was with Paul Kagan Associates, a prominent Wall Street media and telecommunications investment research company where as one of the first Internet investment analysts he covered the companies that have come to define the Internet including Netscape, Yahoo, AOL, Amazon.com, UUNet (now part of WorldCom), PSINet, Netcom, @Home and dozens more.
Harmon regularly consults Fortune 500 companies, venture capital firms, investment banks, accounting firms, and Internet start ups regarding opportunities, strategies, valuations, growth, pitfalls and trends in the Internet industry. He is frequently quoted in the financial and trade press including Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Dow Jones Wires, Smart Money, Business Week, Worth, Investors Business Daily and has appeared on CNBC and Bloomberg TV.
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