Tablets, mobile payments and more: A quick view of the future from Mobilize 2011

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Guest Post: Summing up a conference with an agenda as broad as GigaOM’s Mobilize 2011 in San Francisco is no easy task. The breadth of topics covered and companies represented over the two-day event was impressive. While there were a few new products and services announced, including new Android handsets and the “latest” 4G network… Read More…

List: Top 10 Most Uninstalled Android Apps

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Guest Post: There are hundreds of thousands of mobile apps out there. At AppStoreHQ, we’re currently tracking nearly 700,000 apps across the Android and iOS platforms. Some of these apps are very popular; there are plenty of stories about apps with millions — or even tens of millions — of downloads, such as Angry Birds, Facebook, Fruit… Read More…

Tech startups: Ice cream is great, but utilities make the world go around

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Guest Commentary: Lately I have had a recurring theme running through my head – “didn’t I see that startup idea before, only with a different name?  Aren’t there more than a few startups doing this same  little sharing thing? ” I believe we are witnessing another “bubblish” period of time, with valuations of young startups skyrocketing and investment… Read More…

Tech Law: A new era for startup financing documents

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Startup investors Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson have an interesting take on the standardization of legal documents used in angel and venture financing. It’s found in the early chapters of their new book, “Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist.” Their perspective is that the much-wished-for, much-sought-after standardization of startup financing documents… Read More…

Why this iOS app developer uses an Android phone

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Guest Commentary: Colleagues are often surprised when they realize I own an Android phone.  With my career now centered around iOS development (e.g. iPhone and iPad) people just assume that I own an iPhone. Granted, I do own a number of iDevices (which would be too embarrassing to list) but the iconic mobile device is not one… Read More…

Think like a serial entrepreneur

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I’m struck by the question of whether, and how, an entrepreneur might act differently if they were mindful that their current startup probably won’t be their last. In other words, chances are you’re likely to continue to be a “serial entrepreneur” whether you like it or not.  This actually might be a good thing to… Read More…

Why your product must be social — not just your marketing

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Guest Commentary: If you market to consumers, you will be out of business in 10 years if you don’t have a plan for deeply integrating social elements into your product or service. Social marketing itself is not sufficient; social must literally be embedded in your product or service. Here’s what I mean when I say that… Read More…

Reading the Situation Room photo with startup eyes

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Guest Commentary: Blogging Tuesday about the already famous White House photo of the Situation Room during the bin Laden operation, Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic writes: “[T]he President seems so small and peripheral to the action. He is hunched down, seated on the margins of the meeting, seemingly trying not to take up space. It… Read More…

Idea Man? Ex-Microsoft geek reviews Paul Allen’s memoir

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Guest Commentary: I want to thank Paul Allen for writing his memoirs. It’s great to hear the story of the formation of Microsoft in his own words. His candor is surprising to some, but I think he is just telling it like he saw it. That is not to say that this is a balanced… Read More…