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Reginald J Murray serves as Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Marketing and Business Analytics at San José State University's Lucas College and Graduate School of Business. With extensive industry experience including 25 years as a high-tech executive and founder of MiniStor Peripherals Corporation, he brings practical business insights to academia.
His educational background includes:
- Doctor of Education from Pepperdine University (2009)
- Master of Business Studies in Business Administration from Pepperdine University (1982)
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering from UCLA (1977)
Dr. Murray's research focuses on the critical relationship between founder vision and startup outcomes in venture-funded technology companies. His doctoral dissertation established frameworks for analyzing vision sustainability, change, and disregard throughout the pre-IPO period, examining how these factors influence success metrics across the VFSC Success-Failure continuum. His work identifies contextual variables like vision valuation, clarity, and conformity as significant predictors of firm outcomes.
Though limited to his doctoral dissertation in the available publications, his research demonstrates a clear trajectory examining the intersection of entrepreneurial vision, venture capital investment strategies, and technology startup performance metrics. His framework categorizes venture-funded companies into Super-successes, Successes, Failures, Projected Successes, and Living Dead based on vision implementation patterns.
As an educator, he teaches Business Statistics courses including Managerial Decision Analysis and Business Logistics, connecting theoretical concepts with his extensive industry experience in high-tech R&D, engineering, operations, and program management.
