[citation needed] In 1972, she left her job selling computer time-sharing for General Electric and devoted more of her time to starting a family.

[4] She founded ASK Group as a part-time job, using "a $2,000 commission check from GE;"[5][6][7] the $2,000 was needed to rent a time-sharing terminal.

By 1978, ASK released a package of programs called Manman,[10] one of the first enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suites.

[4] She later concluded a deal for Hewlett Packard to sell Manman for use on HP-3000 minicomputers, at a time when most ERP software was only available to run on more expensive mainframe computers.

Kurtzig's autobiography, CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Ground Up was published by Harvard Business Press.

Her former husband's name was Arie,[17] and their sons Ken and Andy Kurtzig were born c. 1973 and 1976;[1] their parents divorced when the boys were 12 and 9.