Startup Trek spent a week in Boulder, Colorado last month, getting to know some of the entrepreneurs in Boulder. We were fortunate to kick things off by interviewing leading Venture Capitalist Brad Feld, Managing Director of Foundry Group, at their offices in Downtown Boulder, CO. Segment 1, a 12-minute session, covers Brad’s prolific career [...]
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Tag Archive: Mobile Applications
6 Wireless startups spin for 6 minutes, at AlwaysOn 2009
We’ll have video snippets of the highlights from each of these presentations online in this post within 24 hours:
1. Mpowerplayer, Michael Powers, CEO
Provides a socially-enable “Application Store” for major web properties, including Sprint, European Telcos.
2. Promptu, Giuseppe Staffaroni, President & CEO
Slick iPhone application for browsing train and transit schedules by voice command.
3. Mobclix, Vishal Gurbuxani, [...]
Startup Trek interviews Doron Reuveni, CEO of hot mobile application startup uTest
uTest co-founder and CEO Doron Reuveni interviews with Startup Trek about his fast-growing company during a break at the AlwaysOn 2009 conference. uTest is a venture capital funded startup based in Boston, MA which has invented a “crowdsourced” testing model for mobile device applications.
uTest has invented a way to globally “crowdsource” mobile application testing. [...]
Mobile panel at AlwaysOn 2009 examines business models
Mark Newhall, C0-founder IdealWave and INMobile.org moderated a panel at AlwaysOn 2009, examining the health and viability of mobile computing applications, advertising, and marketing. The panelists were:
Bart Decrem, CEO Tapulous
Simon Khalaf, CEO Flurry
Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Dorrian Porter, CEO Mozes
Purnima Kochikar, VP Nokia Community & Developer Forum
One of the most surprising statements [...]
Tech Startups Pitch Investors at 2009 “Launch Silicon Valley”
A good-sized crowd of 450 Angel investors, VC’s, entrepreneurs, and various stripes of business people attended today’s fourth annual “Launch Silicon Valley” in the conference center on Microsoft’s Mountain View, CA campus. As was the case last year, 30 tech startup companies were selected from almost 500 that applied to present.
Here is a 29-photo gallery [...]
Steve’s car becomes a rolling Wi-Fi hotspot using CradlePoint’s 3G router
A new era of mobility seems to be arriving, with the success of CradlePoint’s incredibly versatile and well designed family of “WiPipe” (TM) 3G-uplinked Wi-Fi routers. The photo at right shows me using a CradlePoint CTR-500 3G+Wi-Fi router in my car around noon PDT today.
To make a long story short, I was driving into San [...]
Location Based Services – Who will make the most money?
This panel, moderated by Rajeev Chang, Managing Director at Rutberg & Co, National Chair, Technology, Sonnenschein, examined the prospects for Tech M&A and IPO over the next two years.
The panelists were
Sumit Agarwal, Senior Product Manager, Mobile, Google
Mark Collins, VP Consumer Data, AT&T Wireless
Cormac Conroy, VP of Engineering, QCT [...]
Steve publishes inaugural article in the new SharePoint Magazine
This new SharePoint Magazine made it’s online debut this morning. The first issue includes an article just written by Steve, “Microsoft SharePoint from the iPhone: First Impressions”.
The article details how we’ve discovered that SharePoint workgroup productivity sites can be accessed from both 1st geneartion (2.5G) and 2nd generation (3G) iPhones, to accelerate the work of [...]