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 Nathan Schulhof is a visionary innovator who is changing people and cultures around the world. Among other things, Nathan invented, patented and introduced the first MP3 player.
Making a difference in people, cultures and companies is Nathan’s passion. And it is that passion that Nathan shares with his audiences.
Thought, Reality and Action are what your group get from Nathan’s speaking engagements. Among other things over the years Nathan was the first 3rd party developer on the Apple computer he was the first to bundle software in magazines; he has taken three companies public and; he survived a near death experience.
Nathan is widely regarded as one of the leading entrepreneurs of the Tech/Internet age. He has been a regular guest on such television shows as Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, Your World, and CNBC’s Squawk Box. He speaks several times per month at professional events related to high technology, business innovation and the music industry, both in the U.S. and around the world.
Video of Nathan click here.
 Nathan's topics for speaking:
-The Development of the MP3 Player
-Bringing a Product to Market
-The Future, How Technology and Biotechnology Will Drastically Change Our Lives.
The late Steve Jobs and Nathan Schulhof: Gadgets Then and Now from Time Magazine.
So what do you do after inventing one of the more popular technologies of the past decade - the MP3 player?
Well, if you're Nathan Schulhof and you already have more than 35 years as a successful serial entrepreneur to your credit, chances are you do what most in your position do - consult, invest, and look for the next big thing.
After a nearly 2-hour long and wide-ranging interview on 10/18/10 with KSL-TV (the Utah station with the biggest audience), Nathan, the Joos Orange and the Listen Up Player were featured in a nearly 3-minute story. Here's the link to the story and a slightly longer "written" version of the story: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=12878489.
As shown by the four U.S. Patents bearing his name {5,557,541; 5,572,442; 5,841,979and 5,914,941), Nathan M. Schulhof was the visionary behind the devices known today by most people as MP3 players – the ipod!
As envisioned by Schulhof in the early 1990s when he founded the company with which to launch his vision --- Information Highway Media Corp. (later renamed Audio Highway and then audiohighway.com), such portable devices would allow the selection, retrieval, storage and playback of audio content delivered to the device via the Internet or another broadband delivery system. These handheld systems would also include a high- capacity storage medium, basic control unit, mobile control unit, a faster-than-real-time recording mechanism, and a playback system designed to detect playback resolution.
 Schulhof completed the first prototype of his invention in 1994 that was commercialized by Schulhof's team in 1996 as the Listen Up Player. The Listen Up device won an Innovations award from the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1997 and was later selected to receive the People's Choice award from the Upside Magazine/David Coursey Internet Showcase conference in 1998.
Schulhof's invention has continued on to become a near-ubiquitous device, particularly among teenagers and young adults.
For more than 35 years, Schulhof has been involved in a wide variety of entrepreneurial ventures, ranging various entrepreneurial adventures as a young man growing up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to starting an air charter service in Florida in the 1970s.
 Schulhof entered the technology world in the late 1970s when he began working on a software idea that eventually bore fruit as Silicon Valley Systems, the developer of Word Handler, the first and best-selling high-resolution graphics word processor for the Apple II computer. SVS was also the first technology firm to implement a telemarketing effort targeting the retail channel.
Prior to co-founding audiohighway.com, Schulhof formed TestDrive Corporation, a pioneer in the distribution of encrypted computer software on CD-ROM and the first company to distribute a CD-ROM inside a magazine. TestDrive was later sold to R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.
Through the years, Schulhof has been extensively quoted and featured in technology and consumer media, including pieces in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Businessweek, Inc., Success, among others. He has been the keynote speaker at industry events (including COMDEX, CES, Fall Internet World and Apple Computer's Independent Developer Conference, among others), and has raised tens of millions of dollars in private and public equity.
He also participated in the DotCom craze of the late 1990s, leading the transformation of Information Highway Media Corporation into audiohighway.com, one of the leading destination web sites for downloading and streaming media in the world. Schulhof also helped take audiohighway.com public on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
 In 2003, Schulhof became President of Hand-held Entertainment, when on January 16, 2004, his world changed. Schulhof had complained of a toothache which his dentist treated and dismissed. Although he felt he was fighting influenza, he continued to meet work demands traveling across the world twice in December and within the state to meet company milestones. On the 16th, Schulhof collapsed and was rushed to the hospital where he went into a coma. Schulhof’s body was shutting down as a severe Group A streptococcal infection engulfed his body-- the same bacterial species that caused the Muppet master, Jim Henson’s death in 1990. For two years, Schulhof fought to recover his memory and gain control of his arm’s constant involuntary, unwanted movements.
By 2006, Schulhof became busy with Bio-Tech and technology which concentrate on helping people live better and more comfortable lives.
 Today, Schulhof has recovered and finds life a precious and wonderful gift. Schulhof’s current focus is dedicated to finding a more productive use of alternative energy. In April of 2008, he co-founded a company called Solar Components to do just that. Presently he is looking to investors for this company that already has product and sales. View short video of JOOS by Solar Components. (scroll down, video on left).
Nathan Schulhof’s Visionary Firsts Include:
- The first consumer-friendly word processor for Apple computers.
- The first portable audio MP3 player that played content downloaded from the Internet (ListenUp Player).
- The first patented DRM (digital rights management), patent #6549942.
- The first media catalog Web site (audiohighway.com) with audio download software (AudioWiz) that could download audio directly into a media device.
- The first handheld media player to play video downloaded from the Internet (ZVUE Media Player).
Video of Nathan click here.
From Time Magazine: 100 Most Greatest and Influential Gadgets
Video (MPEG-4 format; 72mb; 10:26 length) of Nathan's September 2010 trip to India where he was the featured speaker at a major conference there. NOTE: This ia a "National Geographic" type of documentary. Click here.
On Wikipedia click here.
Nathan's Topics for Speaking:
The Development of the MP3 Player
Bringing a Product to Market
The Future, How Technology and Biotechnology Will Drastically Change Our Lives.
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