Articles and blog by Steve Simonoff

About Me

I’m a software entrepreneur, which really means I’m primarily a computer programmer (or maybe it’s a “software engineer”).  You can tell because I place the period after the closing parenthesis in that last sentence, not before as I believe formally correct English may require. The scope of the period is the whole sentence and not the parenthetical comment.

I’ve founded four companies, mostly successful though not always very large. The current one, Triscape Inc., publishes FxFoto, photo organization, editing and layout software that pushes the capability envelope in easy-to-use package (or so we hope). My first company, co-founded with three others, was NMS Communications, which we originally called “Natural Microsystems”. It developed some of the first PC-based voice mail systems. NMS eventually went public and was briefly a billion dollar enterprise before the tech bubble burst, though that was long after my involvement there. 

I have degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School, though that was so long ago that I should probably stop bragging. You can read more in my resume.

I live in southern New Hampshire, USA, within commuting distance of Boston (though I never have).  Our household includes my wife, who has an even better degree than mine, and two great daughters, who are often perplexed by their father’s ravings.  Plus a male Standard Poodle, who helps keep our male to female ratio more balanced, at least so far as a poodle can.

You can email me using the FxFoto Contact Form, which we check often throughout the day.  Be sure to mention this “Unpopular Ideas” site so we don’t confuse you with one of our software users.  Or use the Contact form at the bottom of this site’s right column.