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Biography

I am an eight-time entrepreneur with successful exits to Apple, IBM and Intel (Wind River).

My focus is on mobile apps, social media and web services, with a definite platform tilt.

My core forte is the marketing function, including product management; product marketing; marcomm (plus social media); and business development.

That stated, when you are an entrepreneur, you learn to solve problems, so I am comfortable in all phases of being an operator.

I may not always be right, but I am rarely confused, and you never will find me being passive or willfully ignorant when it comes to taking necessary action.

When you are looking for a ‘product nut,’ someone who is a hands-on, technical problem solver with domain experience across online video, community, social media, post-pc devices (especially, iOS) and SaaS, that’s me.

The projects that I am involved in include:

- Regular Columnist at O’Reilly Radar and frequent contributor at GigaOM; Attendee and Presenter at both Maker Faire and Foo Camp.

- Unicorn Labs, a producer of interactive eBooks, entertainment apps and games for iOS, Android, Nook and Amazon Kindle Fire.

- Insider Engine, a service that algorithmically tracks insider buying activity to generate stock recommendations.

- Square Connect, a breakthrough universal remote control platform that leverages the iPhone as the controller application.

- Phoenix Energy, a carbon-neutral, biomass gasification energy producer.

On the human front, I have a great wife and two really awesome sons. I have maintained a Bikram Yoga practice for 13 years, and am a devotee of Tibetan Buddhism.

If you think that you are a potential contributor of ideas, skills, deal flow, connections or money to the projects that I am working on, shoot me an email and let’s talk. I can be reached at msigal at gmail dot com.

Interests

advertising, tibetan buddhism, cooking, reading, blogging, investing, skiing, social media, bikram yoga, digital media, starting companies, social networking, entertainment, mobile, ebooks