Posted by ExtendLogic BD on Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Access Growth LLC is announcing a specific program designed to support mobile developers through our Mobile Innovation Lab. We are actively seeking a few expert mobile developers that would like to participate as part time advisors and/or consultants to the Mobile Innovation Lab. In order to qualify you must have multiple applications already live on an app store and a minimum of one year experience after the first app was launched. If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity and additional benefits for getting involved please feel free to send Chris an email at chris.zelenka@accessgrowth.com
Please see below a current press release concerning the launch of the Mobile Innovation Lab.
Access Growth LLC, a growth consulting and innovation management firm is proud to announce the Access Growth Mobile Innovation Lab which is focused on assisting established mobile application developers with the resources necessary to strategically and efficiently reach the defined target market for their applications. The primary goal of the Mobile Innovation Lab is to work directly with mobile developers to accelerate development, maximize revenue potential, and dominate the competition. Access Growth has developed a complete ecosystem of channels to support go to market strategies for mobile applications into 27 countries and has made these channels available to both large mobile application development companies as well as individuals with a single app ready for market.
The following services are available for participants of the Mobile Innovation Lab:
App Promotion & Marketing
Development & Testing Support
Competitive Analysis
Market Analysis & Strategy
Monetization Plan
Business Growth Planning
IP Review & Protection Plan
End-User Testing
Strategic Marketing & Sales Plan
Launch Strategy & Implementation Support
Mobile Innovation Lab participants will be provided a place to work inside of the Access Growth Venture Center and can access the above services on a ala carte basis depending on their specific needs. Access Growth has developed a creative compensation model for mobile application development companies seeking to retain the firm for services and understands the unique problems many development companies face prior to scaling their applications.
Access Growth has partnered with Silicon Valley Android and Silicon Valley iPhone Business to support early stage developers with training and access to mobile development knowledge through specific programs and events designed for individuals learning about mobile development. Developers that go through training programs will be provided special discounts for services from the Mobile Innovation Lab in order to rapidly develop their product and be ready to hit the ground running once their applications go live.
Access Growth LLC is a global growth consulting and innovation management firm that was founded in 1989 to help companies successfully grow through a proprietary 360° commercialization process. The Access Growth team currently supports 27 countries and provides world-class growth strategies, innovation planning, and commercialization services to early-stage, emerging growth and Fortune 500 companies to quickly penetrate markets and drive top-line growth. To learn more, please visit www.AccessGrowth.com.
Posted by ExtendLogic PR on Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Cupertino,ca, September 17, 2009: ExtendLogic, an Silicon Valleyleading IT outsourcing and consulting services provider focusing on enterprise mobile(iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Mobile backend, embedded mobile) solutions, richmedia and enterprise applications, has announced at the event of “iPhoneInternational Market” hosted by IMUG.org and iPhone Business Meetup at AppleHeadquarter on 17th, Sep, about its offering of Global Mobile Market Access (GMMA) solutions foriPhone developers.
With the rising of competition in the App store US market,more and more iPhone developers are looking for more ways to make money. WithApple iPhone’s expansion internationally, lots are of developers are trying tofind ways to make money from those emerging international market, like Europe,China, India, and so on.
“We want to help iPhone Appdevelopers to capitalize from their existing investment,”Announced by the CEO of ExtendLoigc, David Cao, during the presentation in theevent, “With our global mobile development teams, as well as our testing anddeployment solution, ExtendLogic can help U.S. iPhone developers and firms onapp development, localization, promotions, as well as porting to Android, Blackberry,OMS, Symbian and other platforms.”
ExtendLogic offers end to end solution for iPhone developerswho do not have the bandwidth to deal with international technical as well asbusiness issues. The solution includes the following services:
• Localization
• Testing & certification for different network and carriers
• Porting to different platforms
• Marketing
The services can alsobe tailored into different packages for companies already have internationalaccess.
Posted by ExtendLogic PR on Tue, Sep 29, 2009
CUPERTINO, California—September 28, 2009—Apple® today announced thatmore than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionaryApp Store, the largest applications store in the world. There are nowmore than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone™ andiPod touch® customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’siPhone Developer Program.
“The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with usersdownloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year,including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” said SteveJobs, Apple’s CEO. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with amobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it.”
Today, iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries worldwide canchoose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, includinggames, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. With therecently introduced iTunes® 9, it’s now easier than ever to organizeand sync your apps right in iTunes and they will automatically appearon your iPhone or iPod touch with the same layout.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution inthe 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industryin innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating systemand iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading thedigital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video playersand iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market withits revolutionary iPhone.
Posted by David Cao on Fri, Jul 24, 2009
By the Chubby Research Team on chubbybrain.com.
We recently revealed that $23.3 million had flown to Twitter-oriented startups from venture capitalists and angel firms (as of May 2009). Arguably, the other hot story in tech land is the iPhone and so we wanted to peer into the ChubbyBrain startup database and see how much money has been invested in startups predicated on the iPhone platform.
A brief recap
Applications for the iPhone were initially released in mid-2007 on iTunes when there were merely 500 available for download. Earlier this year, Apple saw their one billionth download from the App Store. Today, less than two years after the iPhone’s launch, the number of applications on the Apple App Store is greater than 50,000 according to some estimates.
Of these applications, it’s evident that a significant portion of them reside in either of two extreme ends of the spectrum that are likely not relevant to the VC/angel investing community: 1) established companies seeking some sort of presence on the iPhone to increase their brand’s awareness or product/service reach or 2) individual developers building cheap, viral applications who are enthusiasts/hobbyists or those hoping to catch lightning in a bottle.
But what about the middle of the spectrum? Who are the startups looking to build scalable businesses with the iPhone at the core, and more specifically, who is funding such efforts? After a look into the ChubbyBrain database, we identified $102.49 million in total VC/angel investment divided amongst 17 iPhone application startups (as of June 29, 2009). Perhaps this $100M+ number isn’t surprising given conversation that the iPhone may be bigger than the PC, but over $100 million in the span of less than two years for iPhone predicated startups is noteworthy. Or perhaps for some of you, this number is a lot less than you expected?
The following analysis takes a deeper look at these investments with a focus on what startups are receiving money, which investors are supplying funds, the amounts of these investments, as well as other interesting trends/statistics that may have implications for the future in this space and/or be helpful to investors or app developers hoping to understand what has gone on to-date.
It’s worth noting that we limited the scope of this study to startups whose core functionality/capability is centered on the iPhone. For example, Facebook is a venture-backed company who also have an iPhone application. However, they do not qualify for inclusion in this study because their iPhone Application is complimentary, not core, to their business. Admittedly, this delineation was a bit of art and science but our aim was to remove those startups who might be building mobile apps or tools across platforms, e.g., iPhone, Android, Symbian, etc or where the iPhone element was complementary but adjacent to their core business. And so our $100 million number focuses on those startups who are tethering themselves in a large way to the iPhone platform.
So far, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers leads the way with $50 million committed across six startups. This is, in large part, due to the $100 million iFund they launched in March 2008 with the specific goal to target the quickly expanding iPhone app market.
See full report: http://bit.ly/nGktF
Posted by David Cao on Wed, Jun 24, 2009
HYSTA and SVCWireless proudly present the Mobile Commerce Seminar, featuring industry leaders, VC and investment banking community in the area.
PDAs and cellular phones have become so popular that many businesses are beginning to use mobile commerce as a more efficient method of reaching and communicating with their customers. Although Asia and Europe are leading in the technology development and business operation, the United States are also beginning to experiment with early-stage mobile commerce.
The products of mobile commerce include mobile banking, mobile purchase and payment, mobile ticketing, mobile vouchers/coupons/lottery cards, content purchase and delivery, mobile brokerage, mobile auctions, information service, location base service, mobile marketing and advertising, etc.
For this panel discussion, we invite high-level executives and entrepreneurs from end devices manufactures, mobile application providers, venture capitalists and analysts to discuss various aspects of the mobile commerce.
Date & Time: 6:30PM – 9:00PM, Thursday, June 25, 2009
Venue: 2903 Bunker Hill Lane, Suite 108, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Agenda:
6:30 – 6:50PM Registration
6:50 – 7:00PM Welcome and Introduction
7:00 – 7:15PM Jonathan Goldberg, Analyst, Deutsche Bank
7:15 – 7:25PM Dilip Venkatachari, EIR, NEA
7:25 – 7:40PM Daivd Cao, CEO, ExtendLogic
7:40 – 7:55PM Selvan Rajan, CTO, mPura
7:55 – 8:30PM Panel (Moderator – HP Jin, CEO, TeleNav, President, HYSTA)
8:30 – 9:00PM Q&A
Biography of Speakers:
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HP Jin, CEO, TeleNav, President, HYSTA
H.P. Jin co-founded TeleNav in 1999, leveraging his expertise in location and wireless Internet technologies and his years of experience in business management and strategy development. Prior to starting TeleNav, he served as senior strategy consultant for the McKenna Group where he developed business strategies for companies in telecom and IT.
H.P. holds a Ph.D. in Guidance, Navigation and Control (Aeronautics and Astronautics department), a Ph.D. minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. |
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Dilip Venkatachari, EIR, NEA
DilipVenkatachari has extensive experience in mobile, online ads, and payments. He held senior executive management positions at Yahoo, Google, and eBay/PayPal. Dilip built Google’s global mobile monetization products and business, and served on the board of the mobile domain name registry, .Mobi. (aka MTLD). Dilip has a successful track record as an entrepreneur, and founded & led two start-ups: CashEdge (the dominant online payments solutions provider) and Commerce Soft (through its acquisition by Aspect). Dilip worked previously with McKinsey & Co, and Goldman Sachs.
Dilip earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School, an M.S.E.E. from Rice University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. |
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David Cao, CEO, ExtendLogic
David Cao is CEO of Silicon Valley-based ExtendLogic, a leading IT outsourcing and consulting services provider known for its reliable, high-quality and cost-effective software development, localization and R&D outsourcing services in fields of mobile (iPhone, Android, Mobile backend), rich media and enterprise applications.
Prior to ExtendLogic, David served as CEO and President of Silicon Valley Globalsourcing Institute, a training organization with a mission to help engineers work more effectively in an outsourcing environment. David also served as Vice President of Engineering of PlayPhone, a leading mobile entertainment startup, where he managed the global engineering operation. David received a MS degree in Computer Networking from Xidian. |
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Selvan Rajan, CTO, mPura
Selvan V. Rajan is currently develpoing eGovernment mobile services and is an experienced architect and designer of enterprise e-commerce, internet and wireless technologies. Previously worked for Accenture, US Sprint, AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, SUN, Sybase, BEA, eTrade, WellsFargo, WashingtonMutual & Bank of America. Previously a founder of Ultimia Wireless; Mr. Rajan holds an MS in Computer Science and Math, and attended Stanford towards MS in Management Science & Engineering.
Jonathan Goldberg, Analyst, Wireless and Communication Technologies Equity Research Team, Deutsche Bank
Mr. Goldberg is an analyst with Deutsche Bank’s Wireless and Communications Technologies Equity Research Team. He joined the team in 2004 and has been a leading author of its Signals to Noise weekly and Digital World monthly reports. Mr. Goldberg is lead analyst on coverage of Atheros, Garmin and Palm among others, and co-covers Qualcomm, Research in Motion and Motorola among others. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, he was a member of Lazard Frères’ M&A advisory practice. Mr. Goldberg has spent over seven years in the People’s Republic of China where he led a team a sales and marketing strategy team for Coca-Cola and advised investors on public and private investments in China. Mr. Goldberg has a Bachelor’s Degree in Asian History from the University of California, Berkeley and an I.M.B.A from the University of Chicago.
Kaiyang Liu, CTO
Kaiyang leads CASEE research and engineering development in ad placement, targeting, fraud detection, and user data mining products. He has world class experience with distributed computing, search, classifications, and data tools. Kaiyang was previously founder of Hansky, China’s top software configuration management vendor. Before returning to China he was a senior engineer at Marimba, Sun/Javasoft.
Kaiyang has MS from University of Pittsburg and BS from Tsinghua University in China. |
About HYSTA:
HYSTA (Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association, www.hysta.org) is a leading Chinese professional association in US. Founded in 1999 by a group of successful Chinese entrepreneurs, HYSTA aims at nurturing entrepreneurship and career development among Chinese technology and business professionals and facilitates networking and the exchange of business ideas between Silicon Valley and China. This event is organized by Distinguished Speaker Series (DSS), a HYSTA chapter.
About SVCWireless
Silicon Valley-China Wireless Techology Association (SVCWireless) has established to be the leading Aisa (With a China Focus) wireless industry registered non-profit assoication in Silicon Valley, now with some 4000+ members since founding in year 2000.
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Posted by David Cao on Mon, Mar 09, 2009
Android has big hope in competing with iPhone in China, where local carriers want more control. But I don’t think Anroid can catch up iPhone in US.
Check out more:
Android sales to outstrip iPhone by ‘12? | Wireless – CNET News.
Posted by David Cao on Mon, Mar 09, 2009
Of cause, those one million folks in China who have jailbreak iPhones will not download from the Apple app store. But where?
What I found out, lots of people are using an desktop tool to download illegal copies of English iPhone apps.
Here is an new idea: the competitor or App Store.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10190573-94.html?tag=mncol;posts
As the result, making money by selling games and small apps in China will face a challenge. ExtendLogic’s interest is to help app publishers to release their IPs free with embedded ads in it. The questions is, can it make enough money from the ads? Maybe not a big money for lots of developers, but better than nothing.
Posted by Extend Logic on Thu, Mar 05, 2009
Every website owners dreamed of ranking number one to attain the highest search engine rankings for their sites. It’s the Web’s equivalent of having the best storefront location. The process of attaining those rankings is called search engine optimization (SEO).
A high ranking in search engine result pages (SERPs) has become a business necessity. Today’s successful SEO strategy requires a long-term approach with frequent postings, targeted content, and regular online promotion designed to boost inbound links—in short, a combination of offsite and on-site SEO.
ExtendLogic Marketing Team is starting its marketing campaign through effective SEO of its website: http://www.extendlogic.com. Until now, we have accomplished the objective of onsite SEO, which aiming at keyword-optimizing your content, effective content creation, and strategic cross-linking. Since iPhone will enter the China Market in the near future, all the pages covering iPhone business have been inserted the key words of “China”. After we have successfully done with the onsite SEO, we will switch our attention to off-site SEO maximizing the number and popularity of inbound links with keywords that match our particular subject.
As we all know, SEO is a numbers game. Each web page can effectively target one or two phrases well. Rather than shooting for one key phrase that ranks number one, strive to have many key phrases that rank high. As for the ExtendLogic website, our marketing team is going to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of our key words which contain “China” “iPhone” “outsourcing and consulting”, and “Smartphone”. Finding the best keyword phrases to target is an iterative process. In the end, we’ll get more leads since our keyword reach will be higher. Take advantage of the long tail of search query distribution by targeting very specific phrases.
In the future, we will work on certain website characteristics which can harm or limit the potential search engine rankings of ExtendLogic website. By avoiding these common SEO pitfalls, we can pave the way for higher search engine visibility.
For more information of ExtendLogic, please visit http://www.extendlogic.com
Alice
ExtendLogic — Your Trusted Provider of Outsourcing & Consulting
Posted by David Cao on Wed, Mar 04, 2009
Amazon released Kindle for iPhone Tuesday night. I had been doubting about Amazon book
reader’s competitiveness again large screen mobile devices like iPhone for a while, especially for international marketing like Brazil, china. With the Kindle software at iPhone, I don’t see any where Amazon’s device can reach into a mass market.
Details about Kindle for iPhone check here.
http://www.macworld.com/article/139190/2009/03/kindle_reaction.html
Posted by David Cao on Wed, Mar 04, 2009
According to BusinessInsider, iPhone will be in China in may. This is another news following the iphone China deal. It is inline with what I heard from friends in mobile industry in Beijing. As a multinational iPhone consulting service provider, with our China subsidiary KnowledgeSurf’s moble division, ExtendLogic had determined to catch the opportunites associated with in iPhone China.
My trip to China had been confirmed to next week. I believe meeting with China Unicom, as well as SPs in China will ensure we move quickly with the right direction.
Check out more at:
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-to-china-in-may-report-2009-2