Acquisition #2 in 9 months under way

I am telling you guys: Write Apps for enterprise customers. The commercial market is BULLSHIT.

I’m going to try a phonegap app pretty soon.. I think the wikipedia app was actually done in phonegap.

Ive used it a few times its golden

I want to but I don’t know anything about IOS development. Plus, I have so many web apps I’m working on.

Content leakage protection for large entities. Can’t say much more really since this is all occurring at the moment.

But, the next one allows physicians to securely collaborate with their devices, for $50 a month, they can earn $25,000 more a year without doing a thing. BOOM head shot

Never been happy with any of the "write once" solutions.

IMO, if you do proper MVC architecture, porting the business layer from iOS to Android is about a days work at most. Hell, I even wrote a converter to convert Objective C to Java. Then it is just a matter of writing the UI. Then once you have Android, it is a snap porting that business code to WP7.

I think PhoneGap / Appceleator fill a market. You probably can get away with 80% of uses just using those alone.

Never heard of it – but the productization for mobile is simple with respects to the enterprise: Show how you can make a decent ROI for the enterprise customer.

Enterprise is the next gold rush. It is still a year off, but it is getting there. Just be ready, IMO.

agreed. need to get off my ass.

once you get a decent framework of code developed, you can start cranking out shit with the quickness. New App for physicians I am writing I’ll have done in a month and a half. All syncing with the "Cloud"

shit will PRINT money

Where do you live? Dc iirc?

yea well u can never go wrong with enterprises. they always pay top dollar

yep in dc

data security is the name of the game

There’s too many apps made by app developers that have huge marketing budgets without knowing a thing about app marketing. That’s where I come in. I’m the guy selling shovels while everyone is trying to get rich off the gold rush.

we should meat

You mean the consumer market is bullshit? It is, but most developers have no familiarity with niche industries (medical, construction, airports, death camps).

I fucking despise the consumer market, but it’s all I know. Wish I had spent the last 5+ years specializing in something not so worthless

which is why you need to team with an SME

I am teamed with a surgeon now for the next product

I barely know anything besides DOD

This is true. I’m on my 4th startup, (1 win, 1 loss, 1 draw and this one is looking good). It’s all about having a great team, it’s what seed investors are looking for. One company I was involved with was part of an incubator, that was an unbelievable experience.

if I have a concept for an app, what’s a realistic price to pay someone to write the code for it?

the best part about working with a surgeon is, he has money lol

$1,000 – $500,000

I have a feeling hsmith’s is more accurate. I figured it’s going to be in the high 4’s low 5’s to get exactly what I want dumb. Is the idea really fucking good? Yes. Do I have the cashflow to have it done? Nope. And no I won’t share the idea.

i’m teaching myself to program apps. it’s tough

Someone else will have the same idea, make the app, and you’ll get no credit (or money).

Haha. Incubators are so lame. Way to give up 20% of your company for a measly amount of money.

Maybe you should partner up with someone who might share the same enthusiasm as you on your idea. The quicker you do, the better before someone else fills in that hole.

I’m in the same boat. Good ideas but absolutely no programming knowledge.

More like gave up 6% for some seeding funding and successfully raised money on a $3mm+ pre money valuation 6 months later. Seems like a pretty good deal to me.

Or know what you’re doing and not need funding at all.

how much do you think it would cost to get a nice little trivia app developed? something pretty simple, but nicely done.

I love all the downloads I get from Android, but I’m getting really tired of supporting every device and OS version. Right now I have a bug that’s causing a lot of weird text issues in the app, but I can’t recreate it in Ice cream sandwich, froyo or gingerbread. My developer cant recreate it either, but I’ve received tons of email about it. Shit is annoying as fuck

depends how complex, # of screens, etc

like 5 screens

holy fuck, phonegap makes it easy to make apps. i could just make my apps using javascript.

has anyone here managed to get iads or admob to work with phonegap?

i just submitted my first app. that was fucking hard.

good luck

Just make people sign an NDA.

How does it compare to titanium? That’s pretty much all JS too.

Very few investors (Angels/VCs) that have any idea what they are doing will sign NDAs. They have too many portfolio companies and things they are looking at to sign NDAs on any of them. They would be getting sued constantly.

I thought he was talking about getting college student intern slave labor, not VC money.

NDA

rofl, i don’t sign that shit

Your idea isn’t unique or special enough for an NDA, I promise.

Would you be able to share any details about your business model with apps for enterprises? Is it simply a matter of selling them the app for a determined $$$ amount or is there something more to it?

how are you handling authentication for your apps?

just finding a discrete problem to solve is the hardest part. implementing a solution well is the next.

IMO marketing isn’t htat hard if you know what you are doing. You can easily get the business, it is just – selling your solution as the right one.

i’ll post up some more. we are still going through the acquisition, it has been painful lol

The current App is a bit different. We are going through a "RIM" like solution that tunnels through the firewalls.

But, lets say you are building some SaaS, you can use active directory federation and tie into your customers AD.