InstallShield Software January 8, 2001 BY FRANCINE KNOWLES BUSINESS REPORTER Schaumburg-based InstallShield Software Corp. makes software installation and deployment products. More than 100,000 corporate and commercial software developers and digital content providers...
It makes a product consumers don’t buy, and often are unaware they own. But despite its low profile, InstallShield Software Corp.’s revenues topped $30 million in 1998, and the firm ranked among Inc. magazine’s 500 fastest-growing private companies for the past two...
Viresh Bhatia’s business plan was, at best, sketchy when he and a partner pooled $15,000 in savings and thumbed through an atlas to find a name for their computer firm. “ ‘The Stirling Group’ had a good ring” recalls Mr. Bhatia, then a 22-year-old Northwestern...
Viresh Bhatia had few high-tech role models to turn to in Chicago five years ago when he was building his Schaumburg-based software company. So Bhatia, president of InstallShield Software Corp., turned west. In the thriving Silicon Valley technology community, Bhatia...