Jon Radoff

Jon Radoff

Infobox Person
name = Jon Radoff


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birth_date = Birth date and age|1972|9|17|mf=y
birth_place = United States
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occupation = Founder, GamerDNA Inc.
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Jon Radoff (b. September 17, 1972) is an American entrepreneur and game designer. His work has focused on online communities, Internet media and computer games.

Radoff lived in Northborough, Massachusetts and was a 1991 graduate of Algonquin Regional High School. During his high school years, he developed Space Empire Elite, a bulletin board system strategy game for Atari ST BBS systems. [ [http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/Articles/SRE-Design.html SRE: Design Notes] , "Amit Patel" (Designer of "Solar Realms Elite")] Also while in high school, Radoff purchased the rights to port the Atari ST BBS software StarLink, which supported FidoNet, to the Commodore Amiga; Radoff named the ported software Paragon BBS.

After a brief time studying at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Radoff dropped out to found NovaLink, an early internet service provider. [http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10977 Online Company SparkForge Formed, Coins 'MSOGs'] , "GamaSutra", September 22, 2006] In 1991, while at NovaLink, he created "Legends of Future Past", one of the first commercial MMORPGs.

In 1997, he founded Eprise Corporation, a creator of Web content management software. [Ed Scannell, "InfoWorld", Feb. 11, 2000, "Eprise CTO guides businesses through Web maze," http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/02/14/000214hnctospot.html] [Jan Stafford, "VARBusiness", May 23, 2000, "Eprise CTO Jon Radoff: Content Rules," http://qa.varbusiness.com/article/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EWVN4KK5M2VEKQSNDLUCKHA?articleId=18809992] Eprise went public on the NASDAQ stock market in 2000 [ [http://www.forbes.com/2000/03/22/mu4.html Eprise Expected To Rocket On Offering] , "Forbes", March 22, 2000] and was acquired by Divine Inc. in 2001. [http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=77801 Divine closes acquisition of Eprise Corporation, "Divine Inc. press release", December 5 2001]

On September 21, 2006, Radoff founded GamerDNA, a social media company working on creating a player-focused community for people who enjoy games. [ [http://www.gamerdna.com/company/index.html GamerDNA company website] ]

References

External links

* [http://radoff.com Jon Radoff's blog]
* [http://www.gamerdna.com/company/radoffbio.html GamerDNA bio]
* [http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=12425 Interview] with Gamasutra


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