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Startup
On Episode 143 of Taking Notes we interview
IBM's Mike Riegel (@mikeriegel,
LinkedIn,
Blog),
Vice President - ISVs, Startups, Developers, and Academic Programs. We
talked about IBM's
SmartCamp program and what
it's all about. Topics included:
- When people think about Big Blue, start
up companies isn't something that comes to mind. So when I heard about
your SmartCamp program and some of the other things you are doing around
the world for entrepreneurs I was a little surprised. Tell us what exactly
is IBM doing with StartUps and Entrepreneurs?
- Why are entrepreneurs and start ups
important to IBM?
- What is a SmartCamp?
- Is it working? How successful are previous
participants?
- Are you looking for companies that are
doing work in collaboration and social business?
- How does a startup company qualify for
SmartCamps?
- What should our listeners do if they
want to participate in 2012?
- I heard the World Finals is coming up.
What do you expect to see from the companies taking part?
- and much more...
The
show runs 25:25.
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In Episode 140 we sat down with Urban
Airship CEO Scott Kveton.
For those of you not familiar with Urban Airship here is what they do:
"Urban Airship powers the world's
most successful mobile apps. Providing breakthrough technology, Urban Airship
makes mobile marketing far more engaging, effective, and efficient. Top
brands depend on Urban Airship's innovative platform to reach and engage
target audiences and increase app revenue streams through push notification,
rich messaging, in-app purchase, subscriptions and user engagement tracking."
In the show we talk about:
- Something near and dear to us all -
"bacon" and specifically Scott's bacn.com
project.
- How Urban Airship got started.
- What exactly Urban Airship sells.
- Why building apps that customers want
and need is important. Just don't build apps because they are technically
cool.
- The difference between mobile advertising
services and Urban Airships "Platform-as-a-Service" or "PAS".
- Why a developer would use Urban Airship's
PAS rather than adding push notifications themselves.
- How geolocation ties into push.
- How Urban Airship makes money and how
customers are making money using their products and services.
- The number of push notifications served
as of August 2011.
- Scott's involvement with the Portland
Incubator Experiment. Listen
to Episode 138 of Taking Notes
to learn more about the Portland Incubator Experiment with Rick Turcozy.
- A
blog post Scott wrote talking
about boots trapping a startup company.
- What's next for Urban Airship.
- and much more...
This show runs about 28 minutes. On Episode 141 we will be interviewing
IBM's Ed Brill about Notes/Domino 8.5.3 and more.
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On this show we talk with the CEO of Appcelerator
Jeff Haynie. You may have heard of Appcelerators' Titanium development
platform.
"Titanium makes cross-platform
native application development easy. A free and open source application
development platform, Titanium lets you create native mobile, tablet and
desktop application experiences using existing web skills like Javascript,
HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP."
We talk with Jeff about:
- Who is Jeff Haynie and how did Appcelerator
get started.
- How the Titanium product has evolved
over time.
- That time in history when Steve Jobs
said that developers could only use XCode to develop native apps for all
"iThings".
- How someone can get started with Titanium.
- What products and services Appcelerator
offers.
- Where you can download
Titanium.
- What the differences are between the
community and paid versions of Titanium.
- The upcoming "Code
Strong" Appcelerator Developer conference and "hackathon"
being held in San Francisco September 18-20..
- and much more...
The
podcast runs 29:43.
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On this episode of Taking Notes we sit
down with Rick
Turoczy the Co-Founder of the Portland Incubator Experiment
or "PIE".
In the show we talk about:
- Who Rick Turoczy is and his background
in industry
- The Silicon Florist blog
- Some history about the www.bacn.com
website and how it got started
- What is an incubator
- How ideas get turned into companies
- How things don't always go the way people
envision them to go
- More about what PIE is/does and how
it got started
- The Wieden
and Kennedy partnership
- What companies are involved with PIE
- What companies are helping mentor PIE's
classes
- What industries are participating in
PIE
- The PIE application process
- Which companies have graduated PIE
- When the next round of PIE will be
- What startups get in terms of financing
and office space
- and much more...
Listen
to Rick Turoczy talk about the Portland Incubator Experiment >
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