Education
Eric graduated from Tufts University and the Washington College of Law as a member of the Law Review.
Eric graduated from Tufts University and the Washington College of Law as a member of the Law Review.
Eric began his career as an attorney where he worked in a variety of areas, including licensing and securities, for Akin, Gump, Hauer and Strauss in Washington, DC.In 1997 Eric co-founded and operated MILCOM, a venture accelerator company that formed a number of venture-backed companies based on technologies licensed from military contractors like Lockheed Martin, ITT and Raytheon. Other companies include Quadfore, Centerpoint Broadband Technologies, TelAsic and Theseus Logic (now Wave Semiconductor).
Eric was also the founder of JED Broadcasting, a Northwest radio broadcasting company, and New Brand Agency Group, a publishing company based in New York City.
In 2004, Alterman founded a video sharing platform that he says was essentially YouTube before YouTube. Though the startup didn’t quite have the legs to achieve scale, the entrepreneur said that the company’s “failure” (coupled with YouTube’s emergence) gave him a valuable insight into how (and how not) to build a SaaS platform that can serve thousands of customers, scale, and become a turnkey solution for an entire space.
With big data all the rage these days, last year, he turned his sights to the next big thing: App data and data interoperability, with the goal of allowing developers to share and exchange the massive amounts of data created daily by the world’s growing collection of web and mobile apps.
