Talk:Tim Berry (entrepreneur)

Attempting to fix page, but my changes are being undone. Please explain.

I'm brand-new at this, so I know I'm doing things wrong...but I've worked to change this page to remove some of the "promotional" tone to it, only when I go back to the page, all my changes are undone. I've been asked by Tim Berry to edit this page, so I'd like to be able to do so, and I'd like to be able to do it in bits and pieces so I can learn as I go. Why is this not being allowed? Janny529 (talk) 16:49, 23 April 2015 (UTC)Janny519, 4.23.15Janny529 (talk) 16:49, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Janny529 made this series of edits that moved praising quotes to the first line and removed some sourcing. I reverted with a note "these are not good edits. content moved away from the source that supported it., and the source removed... oy" and Janny restored with edit note: " I'm not sure why these edits were undone. There's nothing wrong with them, and they're an attempt to UNDO the "advertising" and "commercial" aspects of the bio". I don't understand the note, as promotional content was made more prominent, not less, and i don't understand why good sources were removed... Jytdog (talk) 16:51, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Update, I just saw that you posted above, Janny, and I removed the section header for mine. Thanks for disclosing that Tim asked you to update this. You have a conflict of interest and you should not edit the article directly. Please use the edit request function - I just added a box, to the bottom of the yellow/brown box at the top of this page, that has a link that sets up an edit request for you automatically. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 16:52, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Request edit on 23 April 2015

This is the text as Tim Berry wants it revised. I went in and did some of these edits, but if you would please check this and make sure it's all within the guidelines, formatted correctly, etc., I'd appreciate it.

Tim Berry is an American entrepreneur and published business author who has worked extensively in business planning and business planning software. He is co-founder of Borland International and founder of Palo Alto Software and bplans.com.

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• 1 History • 2 Awards • 3 Education and Teaching • 4 Writings and Publications • 5 Family and Personal • 6 External links • 7 References

History[edit] Berry was born and raised in the U.S., but moved with his wife in 1971 to Mexico City, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. He was night editor for United Press International and later wrote for business publications including Business Week and Financial Times.[2] In 1976, betting on the devaluation of the peso, he and his wife put up $1000 and borrowed $4000 for a quarter-acre lot.[2] After the peso lost its value in 1979, they sold the lot for $22,000 and used that money to help with tuition at Stanford’s business school. While at Stanford, Berry worked as a market research consultant for Creative Strategies International and began creating his own business planning software.[2][9]

Founding his own consulting practice in 1983, he served clients including Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Ashton-Tate, and Lotus Development Corporation.[2] That same year, he met Phillippe Kahn and helped draft a business plan that led to the launch of Borland International, the firm that created the Turbo Pascal programming language.[2][10] Borland went public in 1986. In 1988, Berry founded Palo Alto Software and served as its president.[9] He founded bplans.com in 1995. Palo Alto Software first released Business Plan Pro in 1995, and first released LivePlan in 2011.

Awards[edit] In 2007, by unanimous decision, the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship awarded Berry the Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year Award.[12] He was one of 100 Small Business Influencers in 2011 awarded by Small Business Trends.[13] He has repeatedly been listed by major media as one of the top entrepreneurs in Twitter. Berry was managing member of the Willamette Angels Conference in 2013.

Palo Alto Software also won the Small Business Administration award for Oregon’s Family-owned Small Business of the Year in 2014.[14]

Education and Teaching[edit] Berry received an MBA from Stanford University. He earned an MA with honors from the University of Oregon, and a BA with magna cum laude distinction from the University of Notre Dame.[8] He served as an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Oregon[8] from 1997 through 2009.

Writings and Publications[edit] Berry contributes to Entrepreneur.com, American Express OPEN Forum Small Business Trends, his own blog, and other publications. His recent blog posts are available at blog.timberry.com.

He is the author of the following books available as Paperback edition, or e-book editions or CD-ROM editions.[17][18] • Berry, Tim (2010). Sales and Market Forecasting for Entrepreneurs (Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Collection). Business Expert Press. pp. 137 pages. ISBN 978-1-6064-9041-9.[19] • Berry, Tim (2008). 3 Weeks to Startup. Entrepreneur Press. pp. 378 pages. ISBN 978-1-5991-8196-7.[20] • Berry, Tim (2008). The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan. Entrepreneur Press. pp. 270 pages. ISBN 978-1-5991-8190-5.[21] • Berry, Tim (2006). Hurdle: The Book on Business Planning. Palo Alto Software, Inc. pp. 232 pages. ISBN 978-0-9712-1852-9.[22] • Berry, Tim and Wilson, Doug (2000). On Target : The Book on Marketing Plans. Palo Alto Software Inc. pp. 356 pages. ISBN 978-0-9664-8913-2.[23] • Berry, Tim (2000). CPA's Guide to Developing Effective Business Plans. Harcourt Brace Professional Pub. pp. 527 pages. ISBN 978-0-7355-2545-0.[24] • Berry, Tim (2000). CPA's Guide to Developing Effective Business Plans. Harcourt Brace Professional Pub. pp. 300 pages. ISBN 978-0-1560-6295-4.[25] • Berry, Tim (1985). Jazz: The Inside Track (A Byte Book). Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media. pp. 256 pages. ISBN 978-0-0700-5064-8.[27] • Berry, Tim (1984). Working smart with electronic spreadsheets: Models for managers. Hayden. pp. 182 pages.ISBN 978-0-8104-6203-8.[28]

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All the personal info is fine. If you have any questions, just e-mail me. The edits I did should reflect this text as Tim wants it, but if you need to change something, that's fine.

Thanks, Janet W. Butler

Hi Janet. I have removed the tags and the promotion they were referring to, as well as the duplicate book listing. As for the proposed text above, it's sort of just a mass of text that is impossible to review and would require extensive wiki-coding before it would be formatted properly. You would really need to put something like that in your userspace, learn enough wiki-code to format it and annotate the changes between the draft and the current article. Awards sections are almost always just promotion as well. CorporateM (Talk) 05:05, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks CorporateM. I've been meaning to get back to this and other things kept coming up. Jytdog (talk) 02:11, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Request edit to remove flags

{{Please replace "In 1976, betting on the devaluation of the peso, he and his wife put up $1000 and borrowed $4000 for a quarter-acre lot.[2] After the peso lost its value in 1979, they sold the lot for $22,000 and used that money to help with as tuition at" with "He returned to the United States in 1979 in order to attend" (eliminating unneeded details in order to eliminate the flag on commercial content)}}

{{Please remove the books published by Palo Alto Software so that all published works are books published by major known publishers (Entrepreneur Press, Business Expert Press, and Harcourt Brace, not the company the subject founded and owns. (To address the flags about commercial content) The published works to remove are specifically these three:

Berry, Tim (2006). Hurdle: The Book on Business Planning. Palo Alto Software, Inc. pp. 232 pages. ISBN 978-0-9712-1852-9.[18] Berry, Tim and Wilson, Doug (2000). On Target : The Book on Marketing Plans. Palo Alto Software Inc. pp. 356 pages. ISBN 978-0-9664-8913-2.[19] Berry, Tim (1989). Tim Berry's business plan toolkit. Palo Alto Software. pp. 152 pages. ASIN B00072ELLA.[22] }} {{Please remove the duplicate book listing in the published works:

Berry, Tim (2000). CPA's Guide to Developing Effective Business Plans. Harcourt Brace Professional Pub. pp. 300 pages. ISBN 978-0-1560-6295-4.[21]

(That's a duplicate with the one above it) }} Please remove the flags on this page. Recent edits removed content that sparked concerns. The page is now down to verifiable businesses started and books published by publishers including Entrepreneur.com, Business Expert Press, Harcourt Brace, and Hayden Books. The others are also legit, but the intention is to eliminate all conflict of interest

Editorial comment: yes, this is me, subject of this page, trying to keep it strictly factual and uncommercial. I ran into an irony last week, in which edits done to remove commercial content ended up being flagged as connected to me. The intent with the edits was obviously to clean the page, and correct it. Intentions were good.

(Timberry (talk) 18:25, 29 April 2015 (UTC))