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Lifeboat Associates

Lifeboat Associates, Inc., was a New York City company that was one of the largest microcomputer software distributors in the late 1970s, and early 1980s. Lifeboat acted as an independent software broker marketing software to major hardware vendors such as Xerox, HP and Altos. As such Lifeboat Associates was instrumental in the founding of Autodesk and…

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Founded
1976/77
Industry
Software
Headquarters
New York City
Key people
Larry Alkoff, Tony Gold
Products
T/Maker, The Boss Financial Accounting System

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Lifeboat Associates

Nodes26
Edges25
Triples28
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.076923
Components1

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Lifeboat Associates

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related to overview · 18
Lifeboat Associates → As, By, California, CP/M, England, France, Germany, Hewlett-Packard, InfoWorld, Japan, Larry Alkoff, Lifeboat, Oakland, PC Magazine, Proprietary, Switzerland, Tony Gold, Xerox
Founded · 1
Lifeboat Associates → 1976/77
Headquarters · 1
Lifeboat Associates → New York City
Industry · 1
Lifeboat Associates → Software
Key people · 1
Lifeboat Associates → Larry Alkoff, Tony Gold
Products · 1
Lifeboat Associates → T/Maker, The Boss Financial Accounting System

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Lifeboat AssociatesFounded1976/771.00infobox
Lifeboat AssociatesHeadquartersNew York City1.00infobox
Lifeboat AssociatesIndustrySoftware1.00infobox
Lifeboat AssociatesKey peopleLarry Alkoff, Tony Gold1.00infobox
Lifeboat AssociatesProductsT/Maker, The Boss Financial Accounting System1.00infobox
Xeroxinstance ofLifeboat acted as an independent software broker marketing software to major hardware vendors0.80text
HPinstance ofLifeboat acted as an independent software broker marketing software to major hardware vendors0.80text
Altosinstance ofLifeboat acted as an independent software broker marketing software to major hardware vendors0.80text
Hewlett-Packardinstance ofcompanies0.80text
Xerox paid it to compile software catalogs included with computersinstance ofcompanies0.80text
Lifeboat Associatesrelated to overviewLifeboat0.60section
Lifeboat Associatesrelated to overviewLarry Alkoff0.60section

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