Published: 2013-05-24 16:05:19

Steve Outtrim is a technology entrepreneur from New Zealand. He is best known for his success in the early "dot com years" of the Internet, as the creator of Sausage Software and its flagship product, the HotDog Web Editor. He has also founded software company Majitek and environment solutions company ekoLiving and is the former owner of nutraceutical company Aussie Bodies.

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Steve Outtrim has knocked the ball out of the park on numerous occasions. Having the #3 program on the Internet in 1997. Imagine that. One of the true pioneers and the first to create a successful e-Commerce business on the Internet. Stunning accomplishments.

Sausage Software was an Australian software company, founded by entrepreneur Steve Outtrim, which produced one of the world's most successful web editors: the HotDog web authoring tool. The product and company name have since been purchased by an Australian consulting firm, called SMS Management & Technology.

hopCity.com, a network of more than 8,000 local marketplaces in the United States, Canada, Europe and abroad, is proud to announce the appointment of Australian dot-com pioneer Steve Outtrim to its board of advisors.

In 1996, at the age of 23, Steve Outtrim became the youngest CEO of a public company in Australia’s history when his company, Sausauge Software – makers of the HotDog web editor, IPO’d. Rupert Murdoch held the previous record for youngest public CEO since the 1950s. At its peak, Sausage Software had a market cap of $ 1.7 billion, and 1,200+ employees.

Steve Outtrim||Entrepreneur in Residence at Coit Group||San Francisco Bay AreaInternet||CurrentCoit Group, Reallocate.org, Majitek||PreviousekoLiving, Sausage Software, Inland Revenue NZ||EducationVictoria University of Wellington

1993 moved to Australia from Wellington, New Zealand||1995 founded Sausage Software||1996 took Sausage Software public: youngest CEO of a public company in Australian history||1999 Intel, Telstra, St George invest in Sausage Software||1999 founded private equity company Pagan Investments||2000 sold most of stake in Sausage Software||2000 founded Majitek||2001 purchased Aussie Bodies; Director||2004 sold most of Aussie Bodies||2004-2006 director, Majitek US||2006 founded ekoLiving.com, Greater Springfield Digital Edge Corporation Pty Ltd||2007 sold remaining stake in Aussie Bodies||2007 founded Majitek Middle East||2009 Cisco invests in Majitek, "Intelligent Urbanization"||2010 investments in Grid-Net, Nukotoys, RedTXT, Festquest||2010 joined advisory board, MaestroConference||2011 Majitek and Emrill (UAE) form partnership||2011 founding board member of charity Reallocate.org||2011 Entrepreneur in residence, Coit Group||2011 joined advisory board, ShopCity.com||2012 joined advisory board, Socure||2012 started new venture, ekoArk, with Seasteading Institute||2012 joined advisory board, Lumigeek||2012 started painting containers: ekoVillage

HotDogs is the name of the HTML web editing tool developed by Sausage Software in the mid-1990s. At the time of its development, there were only a small number of HTML editors available on the market (such as HoTMetaL) and HotDog gathered significant interest from web users (and then commercial users) due to its ease of use and "What you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) interface. The program was developed by Australian Internet entrepreneur Steve Outtrim. In 2000, the ownership of the product was sold from Sausage Software and, despite still being called Sausage Software, is now run by a company unrelated to the Outtrim-founded Sausage Software.

Sausage Software was an Australian software company, founded by entrepreneur Steve Outtrim, which produced one of the world's most successful web editors: the HotDog web authoring tool.[4] The product and company name have since been purchased by an Australian consulting firm, called SMS Management & Technology.[5][6]

HotDog and the company became the 'dotcom darling' of the Australian media receiving a large amount of media exposure due to the young age of the company's founder and staff featuring pinball machines and a pool table in the company's reception area.[4]||Sausage Software also invested in various other pioneering software strategies and products:||A range of small independent software products called "snaglets"[4][7]||A unique freeware texture generator called Reptile[8]||An early micro-payment system called the eVend Cashlet[9]||A Java Electronic Commerce Server (JECS), a generalized middleware layer serving Java

Applets with database data on request via an XML-like request/response protocol.[6][10]||Their website was one of the most popular at the time, receiving 250,000 hits per day in 1996.[11]