The Lotus Development Corporation was founded by Mitchell Kapor, a friend of the developers of VisiCalc.

During the 1970s, Kapor was employed as a radio disc jockey at WHCN-FM, a commercial progressive rock station based in Hartford, Connecticut.

Kapor founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, who was responsible for technical architecture and implementation, and created Lotus 1-2-3.

Kapor was also the fundamental architect of the " free-form " database application, Lotus Agenda.

In October 1984 Jim Manzi was named President, and in April 1986 he was named as CEO, succeeding Kapor, who had become inactive in the company.

Mitch Kapor was a founding investor in UUNET Technologies, one of the earliest commercial Internet service providers.

Kapor was the Chair of the Mozilla Foundation at its inception in 2003.

Kapor was the original Chair and is currently on the Board of Directors of Linden Lab, a San Francisco-based company which created the popular virtual world Second Life, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Wikimedia Foundation.

One of these was written by a former VisiCalc programmer, Mitch Kapor.

Lotus was founded in 1982 by partners Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs with backing from Ben Rosen.

In October 1984 he was named President, and in April 1986 he was named as CEO, succeeding Kapor.

; Massively distributed collaboration: The term massively distributed collaboration was coined by Mitchell Kapor, in a presentation at UC Berkeley on 2005-11-09, to describe an emerging activity of wikis and electronic mailing lists and blogs and other content-creating virtual communities online.

* On 8 April 2011, Kusturica was the first person ever to receive " Momo Kapor award ", for his book Death is an Unverified Rumour

In response to the arrests, a group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded by Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, and John Perry Barlow, an author.

Jonathan Sachs ( b. June 25, 1947 ) was the programmer who co-founded Lotus Development Corporation with Mitch Kapor in 1982 and created the first version of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program.

Kapor, developer of VisiPlot and VisiTrend, had been pressing for the development of a greatly improved spreadsheet, but Opdendyk was uninterested.

Lead developer of Agenda, Mitch Kapor, was also involved in the vision and management of Chandler.

In January 2008, Mitch Kapor announced that he was leaving the board and would only finance Chandler until the end of 2008.

Secretary general Teo Chee Kang won the Tanjong Kapor seat which was previously held by Chong Kah Kiat.

Mitchell David Kapor ( born 1 November 1950 ) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3.

* Freada Kapor Klein ( born 1952 ), American criminologist

* Mitch Kapor ( born 1950 ), American businessperson

* Momo Kapor ( born 1937 ), Serbian novelist

Freada Kapor Klein, Ph. D. ( born 1952 ) is a pioneer in the field of organizational development and human resources and diversity consulting, as co-founder of the first organization in the U. S. to offer comprehensive services, training, and consultation on the topic of sexual harassment to both the private and public sectors in 1976.

Kapor subsequently began a career as a mental health counselor at New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

Kapor serves on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation.

" We think we're being cagey by bringing it out on the Mac first ," Kapor said.

In 2001, Kapor founded the Open Source Applications Foundation, where he worked on Chandler Project.

When Kapor decided to leave, the other executives pressed for a clause forbidding Kapor to work on an " integrated spreadsheet ", but Opdendyk couldn't be bothered, exclaiming Kapor is a spaghetti programmer, denigrating his abilities.

Kapor would go on to release Lotus 1-2-3, which became a major competitor to VisiCalc in 1983.

The project led directly to the founding of the Long Now Foundation in 1996 by Hillis and others, including Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Esther Dyson, and Mitch Kapor.

Kapor served as the President ( later Chairman ) and Chief Executive Officer of Lotus from 1982 to 1986 and as a Director until 1987.

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ' The Lotus Position ' or ' Padmasana '.

In January 2008 Mitch Kapor ended his involvement with the Foundation, stepped down from the Board, and provided transitional funding.

* 1983: Foliranti by Momo Kapor ( from Serbian ).

The popularity of the software attracted Silicon Valley investor Brad O ' Neill to take notice of the company and assist with a move to San Francisco, as well as bringing in subsequent fund-raising totaling $ 1. 2 million from other angel investors including Ram Shriram ( Google ), Mitch Kapor ( Mozilla Foundation ), First Round Capital, and Ron Conway.

It received initial $ 2 million donations from AOL, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Red Hat, and $ 300, 000 from Mitch Kapor.

It received initial donations from AOL, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, and Mitch Kapor.

Kapor served as Music Director and Program Director at Yale's radio station WYBC-FM.

In 1980, Kapor left his counseling career to attend the Master's of Science in Management program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, but did not graduate.

Kapor founded Lotus after working as head of development at VisiCorp ( the marketers of VisiCalc ) and selling the rights to his products VisiPlot and VisiTrend to VisiCorp.

Shortly after Kapor left VisiCorp, Sachs and he designed and developed an integrated spreadsheet and graphing program.

He founded the Mitchell Kapor Foundation to support his philanthropic interests in environmental health.

In May 2009, after founder Susan P. Crawford had joined the Obama administration, Kapor took over chairmanship of OneWebDay-the " Earth Day for the internet ".

In 2006, Kapor founded his latest startup, Foxmarks ( later renamed as Xmarks ), based in San Francisco.

He is married to Freada Kapor Klein and resides in San Francisco.

* Electronic Newsletter of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cambridge, MA-scroll down to Current Legislative and Policy Efforts by Mitchell Kapor.

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4, 732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software ( 2007 ) Random House ISBN 978-1-4000-8246-9, about Mitch Kapor, collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the open source calendar application Chandler.