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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Mobile Portland: Warm, Clothed, and Fed—Developer run iPhone businesses</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2009-11-12T18:00:00" datetime="2009-11-12T18:00:00">Thursday, November 12, 2009 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2009-11-12T21:00:00" datetime="2009-11-12T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202389972'><span class='fn org p-name'>AboutUs</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">107 SE Washington St., Suite 520</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97214</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=107%20SE%20Washington%20St.,%20Suite%20520,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097214%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p><b>Note: We've moved the November meeting from its normal date to accommodate Dan's travel schedule.</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>There are sweet-spots in the iPhone market that will sustain, on a continual basis small, developer run, 1-3 person iPhone companies.</p> <p>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:</p> <ul> <li>Choosing the type of business: are your customers iPhone consumers, companies that need iPhone apps, or other iPhone developers?</li> <li>Data-informed app price and product-category strategy.</li> <li>Marketing from code.</li> <li>Contract wages and the $10,000 problem.</li> </ul> <p><b>About Dan Grigsby</b></p> <p>Dan runs <a href="http://www.mobileorchard.com/">Mobile Orchard</a>, 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.</p> <p>Dan is visiting Portland to teach a <a href="http://www.mobileorchard.com/iphone-programming-training-class/">two-day Beginning iPhone Development class</a>.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://mobileportland.com">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>