Category: Tech & Software (Page 4 of 4)

QUESTION:

What’s the best analytics service (funnels, cohort analysis, et cetera) for apps?

ANSWER:

by Naomi Kokubo, Cofounder of Founders Space

Great question. There are a growing number of analytics services for mobile apps.  I’ll start by listing the ones I know about.

Flurry
http://www.flurry.com/

AdMob
http://analytics.admob.com/home/

Mixpanel
http://mixpanel.com/

Localytics
http://www.localytics.com

Bango
http://bango.com/mobileanalytics/

Medialets
http://www.medialets.com/

Appclix
http://www.appclix.com/

Google Analytics
http://www.google.com/analytics/

BuzzBox
http://hub.buzzbox.com/android-sdk/analytics   Read more...

QUESTION:

What’s the best way to go about designing and prototyping a web-based product?

ANSWER:

by Naomi Kokubo, Cofounder of Founders Space

Let me start by saying it’s almost impossible to get funding on a prototype today.  In the heady days of the dot com bubble and again in 2006 and 2007, it was possible to walk into a VC firm and line up millions on a PowerPoint and a demo.  But, alas, today you’ll probably need to have real traction in order to make this happen.   Read more...

QUESTION:

Is it advantageous to build a custom CMS (Content Management System) for my company’s new microstock audio site or should we utilize an open source CMS solution like Drupal or Joomla?

ANSWER:

by Naomi Kokubo, Cofounder of Founders Space   Read more...

QUESTION:

I have a startup, and we’re using a number of open source software packages, including WordPress, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, etc. The list is pretty long. In general, what issues should I be aware of when using open source software?

ANSWER:

by Ethan Stone, Stone Business Law   Read more...

QUESTION:

My startup is about to launch our website & mobile app, do you know of any good checklists we can use?  We don’t want to miss anything.

ANSWER:

Here are two very thorough checklists that you can use.

For websites, we recommend:
http://www.boxuk.com/upload/website_launch_checklist_v1.pdf

For mobile apps, we recommend:
http://www.guidanceshare.com/wiki/Mobile_Application_Design_Checklist   Read more...

Guidance Share Checklist for Mobile Apps

• You have determined the device types you will support.
• You have designed the application with occasionally-connected limited-bandwidth scenarios in mind.

by Dennis Shiao on his blog “It’s All Virtual”

On September 24th, FountainBlue held its annual virtual worlds conference.  This year’s event was hosted on Cisco’s campus in Milpitas, CA.

The event was attended by entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, investors and virtual worlds practitioners.  Several virtual worlds entrepreneurs spoke on the scheduled panel discussions and a few set up stations to demonstrate their technology.

I’d like to highlight 3 virtual worlds technologies that caught my attention.   Read more...