Warm, Clothed and Fed -- Developer Run iPhone Businesses -- Thursday at Mobile Portland
Jason Grigsby
Mobile Portland, Thu, Nov 12th, 6 pm
Join us on for our final meeting of 2009 on a special day of the
week featuring a presentation from the Minnesota-based founder
of Mobile Orchard [http://www.mobileorchard.com/] on how to run
a successful iPhone business.
As developers, we bring a certain set of skills, biases and
preferences to business. These act as a double edged sword; we
make great business people when we play to our strengths; we
fail when we try to be something we're not.
There are sweet-spots in the iPhone market that will sustain, on
a continual basis small, developer run, 1-3 person iPhone
companies.
This is a talk about identifying those market opportunities. This
talk is about capitalizing on them in a way that plays to our
strengths and mitigates our weaknesses. This talk is about the
choices we make when we start our own developer run iPhone
businesses. Topics include:
Choosing the type of business: are your customers iPhone
consumers, companies that need iPhone apps, or other iPhone
developers? Data-informed app price and product-category
strategy. Marketing from code. Contract wages and the $10,000
problem. About Dan Grigsby
Dan runs Mobile Orchard [http://www.mobileorchard.com/], the #1
iPhone development podcast and community site. As the rare
programmer/business type guy, he's as happy running marketing
hacks as he is hacking iPhone code. He's happiest giving talks
that incorporate elements of both, so speaking about developer
-run iPhone businesses is pretty much the rapture.
Previously, Dan founded/ran startups, including one that was
acquired by Microsoft and another that was the only-ever
successful competitor to PayPal.
Dan is visiting Portland to teach a two-day Beginning iPhone
Development class:
[http://mobileorchard.com/iphone-programming-training-class/]
Warm, Clothed, and Fed—Developer run iPhone businesses
Thursday, November 12th, 6 pm
AboutUs offices
107 SE Washington St., Suite 520
Portland, Oregon 97214
RSVP
[http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4769699]
Add to your Calendar
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NOVEMBER MOBILE EVENTS CALENDAR
There are many mobile event taking place in November including a
special Mobile Portland meeting featuring Dan Grigsby (no
relation) from the Mobile Orchard [http://mobileorchard.com]
web site and podcast.
Several local user groups have also decided to make mobile the
theme for the November. There are plenty of opportunities for
mobile before the year ends.
Mobile Love, Android Style
Speaker: No presenter, discussion
Organization: Android PDX
[http://groups.google.com/group/androidpdx]
Monday, November 9th, 8 pm
Lucky Labrador Brew Pub
915 SE Hawthorne Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97214
Cost: Free
RSVP [http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4601709/]
Two Day Beginning iPhone Programming Training Class
Speaker: Dan Grigsby, Mobile Orchard [http://mobileorchard.com]
Organization: Mobile Orchard
Thursday, November 12th-13th
AboutUs offices
107 SE Washington St., Suite 520
Portland, Oregon 97214
Cost: $1200 Register for the class
[http://www.mobileorchard.com/iphone-programming-training-class/]
The Mobile User Experience
Speaker: Nick Finck, Blue Flavor [http://blueflavor.com/]
Organization: Refresh Portland [http://refreshportland.org/]
Thursday, November 12th, 6:30 pm
Jive Software
915 SW Stark St.
Suite 400
Portland, OR 97205
Cost: Free
More Details [http://refreshportland.org/]
Dan Grigsby
Looking forward to meeting you all on Thursday. I'll be in town
teaching our Web-to-iPhone programmer class on Thursday and Friday.
There's a couple of tickets left if you want to attend -- it's $899
with last-minute rush pricing and the "mobileportland" discount code.
Details: http://is.gd/4Rnd1
Best,
Dan
612 423 3694
Jason Grigsby
Would me a good interview for podcast.
Sent from my iPhone