It’s not easy to turn a dream into a reality, but many entrepreneurs have taken on the challenge. While most startup companies fail, many within the same year, a few go on to major success. Here is a look at five companies that did something right with their businesses: Sweet Leaf Tea How can a […]
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Why “Hackable” Hardware is the Future
When Apple debuted the “App Store”, the notion of an independent developer building, deploying, and profiting from their own application on such a huge market seemed farfetched. However, since that day, both Apple and Android have opened up the markets to anybody with the skills and the motivation to participate in the creation of new […]
Access Code Unleashes iOS Developers and Here are the Apps
“Entrepreneurs work 100 hours to avoid a 40 hour work week,” said Nihal Mehta, founding partner of ENIAC Ventures, addressing the inaugural class of Access Code, a program designed to provide an affordable way for underrepresented minorities to learn iOS development. What distinguishes Access Code from many other code learning programs is that, as the […]
Understanding App Economics: The Application Business Model
Mobile applications can be a fantastic conduit for many different endeavors, whether it’s a marketing play, a paid utility or game, or a peripheral service for your company. In many cases, it is central to the strategy to figure out how to make the application a financially viable endeavor. To get a better understanding of […]
The Rise of E-commerce 3.0
From the ever-increasing adoption rate of smartphones to the rise of China and India as top-ranked global Internet users, 2013 holds promise for fascinating trends to emerge across industry sectors and across the globe, giving rise to what can only be seen as E-commerce 3.0. E-commerce 1.0-2.0 E-commerce 1.0 was all about discovering the web […]
The NYC Games Forum: February Edition
If you’ve ever been curious about the gaming scene in NYC, perhaps even wondering to yourself if such a thing exists when the words “game development” are typically followed by “California” or “Texas,” the NYC Games Forum is an excellent overview of the incredibly varied and rich development happening here. I never know what I’m going […]