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Bill Beierwaltes will tell you he flunked retirement.
Lucky for several businesses and hundreds of employees he did. At 57, Beierwaltes is chairman and CEO of Longmont-based OnStream. The Loveland resident is also the Bravo! 2000 Entrepreneur for the city he calls home.
Recruited in August 1999 to lead OnStream by its parent Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, Beierwaltes' past history includes three successful startups and a stint at HewlettPackard Co.
Originally from the Chicago area, Beierwaltes moved to Loveland in 1964 to join HP, He holds two undergraduate degrees from the-University of Michigan electrical engineering and math and an MBA from Colorado State University.
Beierwaltes left Hewlett-Packard in 1974 to work on start-up Colorado Time Systems, which developed computerized timing systems for competitive swimming events. fie launched Colorado Memory Systems in 1985, making tape backup systems for personal computers and the PC industry. HP purchased Colorado Memory Systems in 1992.
That sale sparked the retirement that Beierwaltes eventually "flunked" in 1997 when he launched OneStep Software. That company was making two software products - a personal information manager...