App Developers Conference
App Developers Conference
App Developers Conference (ADC) - http://AppDevConf.com/ – taking place October 26-27, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA. addresses key components of app development, discovery and revenue. Coverage focuses on apps for mobile devices and tablets. More than 50 speakers from Pandora, Walmart, Smule, Samsung, AT&T, Churn Labs, Netflix, Nissan, Nielson, BMW, Pulse, Microsoft, OpenFeint, Qualcomm, Intel Capital, lolapps and dozens of others are participating. Three tracks cover: Monetization and Business Strategy, Programming and Design and Emerging Platforms.
Keynotes:
MedicalPlanQuotes
Walt Hollis
We’ve been using Walt Hollis for our startup’s medical insurance, and he’s fantastic. He really knows his stuff. Walt has been in the medical insurance industry for 23 years, 12 of those years as an executive with Anthem Blue Cross and Kaiser Permanente, and for the last 11 years he has run his own agency and launched www.medicalplanquotes.com.
He represents all of the major carriers in California and specializes in small business and personal plans. He has close to 500 small business clients and over 1,000 clients with personal plans. And the best thing about Walt is that he responds to your questions the same day. No waiting around.
Marcum provides Tax & Business Services to Startups
Marcum LLP is a big supporter of Founders Space and our entrepreneurs. We highly recommend their services to all of our members.
Marcum is also one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation. Ranked within the top 15 firms by Inside Public Accounting and Accounting Today, Marcum offers the resources of more than 1,100 professionals, including more than 150 partners, in 23 offices throughout New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Grand Cayman, China and Hong Kong. The Firm’s presence runs deep with full service offices strategically located in major business markets.
Enterprise Tomorrow Event – San Francisco
The Enterprise Tomorrow Conference will work with you to place perspective around the growing trends by defining each, outlining the benefits they propose and the steps that need to be taken to implement and adapt each. The five themes addressed will be as follows: Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Social Communication, Enterprise Mobility, and Gamification. Over 20 learning sessions spanned across three full conference days will provide best practices and use cases for increased productivity, management techniques and new enterprise technologies. This three day event will take place in San Francisco on September 13-15th 2011. Go to www.enterprisetomorrow.com or call 888.409.4418 x10 for information or to register. Use code ALLIE10 when registering to receive 10% off!
New York Venture Summit
Founders Space is pleased to announce its sponsorship and offer our network a special discount to attend:
The 2011
- Where Innovation Meets Capital -
July 20th - 21st, 2011 | Digital Sandbox |New York City
Friends,
Whether you’re a startup seeking capital and exposure or an investor seeking new deals, The New York Venture Summit™ presented by youngStartup Ventures – is one event you won’t want to miss.
A highly productive venture conference, the New York Venture Summit is dedicated to showcasing early stage VCs, Corporate Investors and Angel Investors committed to funding early stage and emerging companies.
Ansca Mobile’s Corona SDK
LavaMind, which owns Founders Space, is now using Ansca Mobile’s Corona SDK to create our mobile apps. After a lot of research and testing, we chose Corona because it’s simple and powerful.
Doodle Dash made with the Corona SDK
Ansca Mobile’s Corona SDK is a mobile development framework used for creating native, graphically rich and connected applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Android platforms. Developers use the easy-to-learn Lua language and take advantage of Corona SDK’s APIs to quickly build applications and add advanced functionality, like physics, in just a few lines of code. Corona SDK’s architecture — Lua on top of OpenGL — is very similar to platforms used to develop games from companies like ngmoco and Rovio and delivers very high-performance.
Using an eBook to Build Your Brand
Karen Leland
by Karen Leland at www.karenleland.com
By now almost everyone has heard of Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old novelist who was rejected by dozens of New York publishing houses. Not one to give up, Hocking decided to go the entrepreneurial route and self published an eBook instead.
The results? She’s made more than US$1 million dollars to date and just sold the movie rights to one of her popular series. Oh and she also just penned a US$2 million deal for a four book series – with an old fashioned publishing house.
Get Orrick’s Business Plan Guidelines for Startups
Orrick has put together a really nice set of business plan guidelines, and they have been nice enough to make it available to everyone on Founders Space.
Orrick Materials – Business Plan Guidelines for Founders Space – May 2011
Download it from: http://www.foundersspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Orrick-Materials-Business-Plan-Guidelines-for-Founders-Space-May-2011.pdf
This plan was put together with the idea of startups pitching venture capitalists for funding.
Cazoomi
Cazoomi, a cloud services & solution provider, enables its members with an interactive platform, offering both products and services, which allows companies to control their own SaaS on-boarding.
Our technology platform focused on Software-as-a-Service uses this approach to enable our members to control their own business technology life cycles: Our self-service Build & Quote platform enables an environment where the people, software, and methods are exclusively driven by choice.
With over 170+ worldwide customers, ranging from small businesses to larger enterprises, Cazoomi has a innovative history of implementing mission-critical business solutions and developing first to market products on SnapLogic.com, Pervasive DataCloud, Constant Contact MarketPlace, Zoho Platform, Cazoomi Sync App Framework and other SaaS solutions.
Orrick
Orrick is one of the leading law firms in the world when it comes to serving startups and their founders. Orrick offers a number of services targeted at startups, including its very popular TOTAL ACCESS series and Start-up Tool Kit.
Orrick’s TOTAL ACCESS Event Series provides entrepreneurs business, tactical and legal education through complimentary breakfast panels and lunch seminars. Presented by experienced industry CEOs, venture capitalists and Orrick lawyers, TOTAL ACCESS offers insights on cutting-edge issues and an opportunity to network with leading professionals in Silicon Valley.
Semantic Seed
Semantic Seed
Semantic Seed is a blog for startups. They cover everything from venture capital to developers.
Check it out at:
WebFaction
WebFaction - Smarter Web Hosting
Startups keep asking us who provides the best web hosting. Well, there’s no single answer to this because there are so many things to consider: bandwidth costs, storage costs, server speeds, location, backup, reliability, scalability, flexibility, and the list goes on.
That said, we are now using WebFaction for some of our high bandwidth sites, and they are extremely good in many respects:
* Their pricing is super affordable — see for yourself
* They have a reputation for being very reliable
* Their customer support is fantastic!
Kindisoft’s secureSWF
For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been looking into how to protect Flash & Flex files. Most Flash & Flex files can be decompiled, revealing the source code to anyone who makes the effort to do so. Unfortunately, it doesn’t require a great deal of effort to download one of the many decompilers available online and rip off someone else’s hard work.
I did a lot of research looking for a solution, and most of the SWF protection packages out there don’t actually deliver what they promise. They are simply too easy to outsmart. However, after scouring many technical forums and developer sites, I found that a large number of developers are using secureSWF.
PerfectBusiness 2010 Summit
PerfectBusiness 2010 Summit is being held in Las Vegas on Oct. 7th and 8th, 2010.
Experience powerful keynote speakers, as well as breakout sessions targeted at entrepreneurs. For two full days, you will gain insider knowledge and business connections. Find out what it takes to build a business.
World-class business leaders, investors, innovators and deal makers will help you get your startup off the ground. Find out more at http://www.PerfectBusiness.com/FOUNDERS3
Your Discount Code: FOUNDERS3
Discount Amount: $25 off tickets; $20 off live streaming; $10 off pitches
Ambiera’s irrFuscator
Most Flash & Flex files can be decompiled, revealing the source code to anyone who makes the effort to do so. Unfortunately, it doesn’t require a great deal of effort to download one of the many decompilers available online and rip off someone else’s hard work.
I did a lot of research looking for a solution, and most of the SWF protection packages out there don’t actually deliver what they promise. They are simply too easy to outsmart. However, after scouring many technical forums and developer sites, I found that a large number of developers are using irrFuscator.
Mad Mimi Email Marketing
We love Mad Mimi — and not just because we have an Aunt Mimi, who back in the 70s looked just like their cartoon mascot — but because it’s a great service. If you’re going to be sending out newsletters or doing any sort of email marketing, Mad Mimi makes it a whole lot easier. Their system for designing email templates is simple and elegant. It’s as easy as dragging and dropping in photos and artwork. And the results are much better than you’d get with a typical email marketing service. Their pricing is also really good. In fact, you can try Mad Mimi for free. If you haven’t noticed, we’re using Mad Mimi for all of our newsletters and updates.
Pair Networks Hosting
Pair Networks provides all the hosting for Founders Space. The reason we chose Pair Networks is that I have been using them for over 10 years on various projects, and I’ve found them incredibly reliable. They also provide excellent customer support, and unlike so many other hosting providers, you can talk to a real live tech support person on the phone. I can’t tell you what a difference this makes when you need it. If you value uptime and want a hosting provider that actually responds quickly to your questions, I recommend Pair Network.
Background on Pair Networks:
VentureRate
The ineffable Alex Capecelatro is the brain behind VentureRate, and here’s a wonderful post from his blog. This should give you a good idea about how VentureRate works…
Wappow!
Wappow
Conferences, Workshops, and Networking Events
Wappow! is home to Woot! conferences, mini-Woot! networking events, and Huzzah! workshops. Events geared for professionals who are interested in connecting with customers digitally—whether via the web, mobile, gaming, and more. At Wappow! events, attendees learn about technologies that help them stay on the cutting edge of digital connection, interaction, communication, and relationship-building.
pariSoma
Welcome to the pariSoma Innovation loft!
pariSoma is a collaborative loftspace for coworking and events in the SoMa district of San Francisco. They host diverse and captivating events for entrepreneurs, startups and independent professionals, as well as providing an innovative coworking space with wifi, coffee, work stations and a conference room. They promote the growth of collective intelligence through five core values – community, collaboration, innovation, openness and sustainability.
Anyone is welcome to join the experience at pariSoma. Come in anytime for a free drop-in day or reserve the loft for your next event!
Digital Hollywood
Digital Hollywood
Digital Hollywood has from its start been among the leading trade conferences in its field with over 15,000 top executives in the film, television, music, home video, cable, telecommunications and computer industries attending the various events each year.
During the past two decades Victor Harwood has developed and produced over two hundred leading conferences and events for artists, professionals and top executives. Mr. Harwood is considered a leading authority on the convergence of the entertainment and technology industries, founding and organizing such conferences as Digital Hollywood, Politics 2008: The Media Conference on the Election of the President, Media Summit New York, Building Blocks, Advertising 2.0, Digital Hollywood Europe in London, the Entertainment Globalization Initiative, Multimedia Expo, Production East at Lincoln Center, the International Business in Space Conference and the New York Writers Conference. He coined the now ubiquitous expression “The Digital Revolution.”
Entrepreneur Commons
Entrepreneur Commons
Entrepreneur Commons is a not-for-profit providing peer-support to entrepreneurs through small chapters of 5 to 10 entrepreneurs who meet on a regular basis to help each other, sharing knowledge, experience and contacts. There are currently 17 chapters in 13 cities around the world, in Asia, Europe and the US. If you are interested in participating in the Entrepreneur Commons:
1.a - Find the chapter closest to you on our map of chapters or in the list in our community page
http://sites.google.com/site/entrepreneurcommons/entrecomap-1
1.b – Or contact the Entrepreneur Commons team to confirm which meeting attend,
http://sites.google.com/site/entrepreneurcommons/contact
Sandbox Suites
Founders Space has partnered with Sandbox Suites!
With locations in San Francisco and Berkeley, Sandbox Suites is Bay Area’s premier provider of affordable, flexible, on-demand shared office and meeting space for entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses. Sign up for any monthly desk membership in July and lock in a monthly $50 discount.
Book a tour or Free Trial on www.sandboxsuites.com
Game Business Summit
Founders Space has partnered with the Games Business Summit in Paris France.
Overview
On September 10th, the Games Business Summit returns to the Porte de Versailles in Paris, at Pavilion 4 of the exhibition park.
This event is organized by the communication agency Games Fed, in partnership with the Paris game developers cluster Capital Games. It has received the support of many institutions in France and Europe, including the Region Île de France, CNC, DRIRE, Ministere de l’industrie et de l’emploi, Europe, and AFJV.
infoBayArea
infoBayArea is the brainchild of the super-socializer Cesar Plata. It aims to inform and unite the Bay Area Community by promoting Business, Community, Culture, and Education. Cesar distributes a weekly e-newsletter and hosts monthly business networking mixers throughout the Bay Area, which offer opportunities for professionals, business owners, corporate and community leaders, and college students to network in a friendly, fun, and comfortable environment. InfoBayArea.com also serves as a directory of Bay Area jobs, events and community and career resources.
WebWallflower Events
WebWallflower Events is run by Cassie Phillipps, and it’s the place to go to if you want to know what’s up with the Bay Area tech scene. She covers it all. These events include meetups, tech sessions, entrepreneur networking, VC panels, launch parties and more!
Sign up for Cassie’s fantastic newsletter!
Weedle
Weedle is an interesting site for entrepreneurs. In addition to a fun name, it’s a good place to find people to help work on your startup.
What is Weedle?
Weedle enables a better way for you to:
- Connect with people who need your skill and;
- To find people who have the skills you need.
Who can use Weedle?
Anyone, anywhere can use Weedle. Whatever your skill, talent or expertise. Whether your skill is your full time occupation, a new part time interest, your passion or your past time. Whatever your background, qualifications, no matter where you are in the world, we invite you to join Weedle and discover a simple and easy way connect with people who need your skill and to find people who have the skills you need.
Ask the VC
Ask the VC is similar in concept to Founders Space, except that, instead of tapping into a broad network of advisors, the answers are provided by two individuals: Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. Basically, you ask them questions, and they provide answers from a VC’s perspective. The thing that makes this site work is that they are two smart venture capitalists. Jason is not only a VC, but also a lawyer, so Ask the VC includes legal advice too. We see this as a good resource for founders.
Background on Brad & Jason:
FeldThoughts
FeldThoughts is a nice blog for founders. It lets you into the mind of Brad Feld, a thoughtful VC. Brad likes early stage tech companies, and his blog offers some good insights and helpful advice to entrepreneurs.
Brad’s Background:
Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital.
Venture Hacks
I really get a kick out of Venture Hacks. They have attitude, and they give great advice to startups seeking venture funding.
Venture Hacks is the product of Nivi (bio) and Naval (bio), two self-proclaimed students of life, and their mission is to share the best startup advice they’ve got.
These guys are for real. They are very connected, and they have founded companies like Epinions; invested $20M in companies like Twitter; helped start companies backed by Sequoia, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, and Atlas; and advised many others.
The best part of Venture Hacks is their Angel List. It’s well stocked with A-list angels and nicely organized.
