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<b>Note: We've moved the November meeting from its normal date to accommodate Dan's travel schedule.</b>
As developers, we bring a certain set of skills, biases and preferences to business. Â 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. Â Â This talk is about capitalizing on them in a way that plays to our strengths and mitigates our weaknesses. Â This talk is about the choices we make when we start our own developer run iPhone businesses. Â 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.
<b>About Dan Grigsby</b>
Dan runs <a href="http://www.mobileorchard.com/">Mobile Orchard</a>, the #1 iPhone development podcast and community site. Â As the rare programmer/business type guy, he's as happy running marketing hacks as he is hacking iPhone code. Â He's happiest giving talks that incorporate elements of both, so speaking about developer-run iPhone businesses is pretty much the rapture. Â 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 <a href="http://www.mobileorchard.com/iphone-programming-training-class/">two-day Beginning iPhone Development class</a>. |
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Mobile Portland: Warm, Clothed, and FedâDeveloper run iPhone businesses |
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