Hillel Cooperman
Jackson Fish Market

Hillel Cooperman founded Jackson Fish Market with his two partners Walter Smith and Jenny Lam in late 2006. The team were all formerly of the Microsoft Corporation where Cooperman headed up the Windows User Interface team and applied for 14 patents on various user experience inventions. Since 2006, Jackson Fish Market, a bootstrapped startup, has shipped 7 separate applications for the web as well as a series of applications for the iPhone. The most recent on the web is A Story Before Bed – a site allowing parents and grandparents to record video bedtime stories synced to high quality licensed children’s books for children, when they can’t be there in person. Cooperman is a regular speaker at industry events having given demos and talks at events including: Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference, Ignite, TED, Startup Day and others.



Synergizing the Book and Web: Books Plus in the 21st Century

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