Mobile Startups & VC’s: Opportunities in Times of Crisis
5 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele October 8th, 2008 in Mobile Apps, Mobile Events, Announcements, MobileMonday, mobile 2.0, Mobile Monday, Innovation, Spanish Startups, Startups, Events, Barcelona
Here’s the announcement of the 3rd Mobile Monday Barcelona season. For this event on October 13 at the Auditorium of Barcelona Activa, we’re exploring the impact of the financial crisis and the implications for startups in mobile technology with the topic: Mobile Startups & VC’s: Opportunities in Times of Crisis.
We invited some of the most active and knowledgeable VC’s in mobile in Spain with presentations from Nauta Capital, Debaeque and Caixa Capital Risc.
As part of our new initiatives for this season, we invited two local startups, theChanner and Beabloo, and a startup from the Netherlands, Liveskope who will be presenting their projects.
All details here at Mobile Monday Barcelona website.
Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaybarcelona.com/subscribe/ to reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out!
(*) Image by Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images
Under the Radar: Mobility 2008
0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele July 31st, 2008 in Mobile Apps, Mobile Events, Announcements, mobile 2.0, Trends, Innovation, Awards, Startups, iPhone, Events
Are you one of those startups that make a difference and you would like to showcase your technology to the ones like Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast, Sprint, iFund, Nokia, Microsoft, Motorola, and more? Then you need to apply to present at Under The Radar: Mobility event on November 12 in Mountain View, CA. Submissions are still being accepted, so apply today!
Under the Radar: Mobility is a one-day conference uncovering 32 vetted, test-driven startups that have launched within the year in categories such as iPhone apps, location-based services, gaming, social networking, enabling technologies, and marketing/advertising.
Under the Radar: Mobility is one of my favorite startup events to track innovation in mobile, read my reviews of previous editions here.
I will be there again this year as a judge amongst other mobile industry players, including:
Jesse Money, Executive Director of Product Convergence and Innovation, Verizon Wireless
Stephan Noll, Managing Director, T-Mobile Venture Fund
Chi-Hua Chien, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (iFund)
Scott Ford, General Manager, Sprint Business Development & Sprint Nextel Ventures
Harshul Sanghi, Managing Director, Motorola Ventures
Dan Schiappa, GM - Mobile & Gaming Advertising Experiences Platform, Microsoft
Dave Williams, Senior Vice President of Wireless and Technology, Comcast
Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Ventures
Jonathan Ebinger, General Partner, BlueRun Ventures
Ken Gullicksen, General Partner, Morgenthaler
Eric Ver Ploeg, Managing Director, VantagePoint Venture Partners
The event will be moderated by:
Rafe Needleman, Editor, CNET/Webware
Ellen McGirt, Senior Writer, Fast Company
Natali Del Conte, Host, CNET TV & Technology Correspondent, CBS Early Show
Jeremy Toeman, Marketing Consultant, Stage Two Consulting
I’ll be in San Francisco and the valley the first half of November, please do get in touch if you’d like to catch up with me.
Mobile 2.0 slides @ Over The Air
0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele April 9th, 2008 in Mobile Apps, Mobile Web, web 2.0, Mobile Events, Mobile Content, Mashup, MobileMonday, User-Experience, Usability, Mobile OS, Mobile RSS, mobile 2.0, Trends, Mobile Culture, Mobile Monday, Innovation, Startups, Events, DevelopersHere are my Mobile 2.0 slides of the keynote I did last Friday in London at the Over The Air event, a great initiative by Daniel Appelquist and Ian Forrester. Over the Air was organised by Mobile Monday London, hosted by Imperial College and supported by the BBC.
Kudos to the whole team who made this happen, this was more than just a developers’ conference, more than just a workshop or a barcamp… It was a 48 hours of mobile and wireless development experiment bringing together some +400 developers and mobile industry experts with great sessions on various industry related topics… Lots of great people and ideas gathered during these 2 days. Check the Over The Air website to view the presentations from other keynotes and sessions.
The were 21 competition entries for the mobile application prototype competition. The winners were:
* Overall Best Prototype - Mr. Tomm (Future Platforms)
* Best Mobile Widget - Auto Widget Configurator (Owen)
* Best Hardware hack - Phone Fight (lastminute.com labs)
* Best Use of Multimedia - 21st Century Fridge Door (Orange Pirate)
* Best Use of Wireless, Bluetooth or RFID - Bluetooth FOAF (Owend)
* Most elegant solution - Twitter Client for Windows (Dale Lane)
* Most over engineered - Clever Social Tool (Alex squared)
* Most practical / ready for market - Social Network Open Butler (SNOB)
* Best mobile web application - Browser Sync
* Best design / user experience prototype - Phone Fight (lastminute.com labs)
* Best Location Aware Award - Capture the Flag (Location based games)
* Audience Favorite - Capture the Flag by the Pink Pirates
And the winners in the unofficial categories were:
* Fun Award - Phone Fight (lastminute.com labs)
* Most likely the succeed with the CIA - (Social Tracker)
More info on the winners, pictures, and other follow-ups will be posted on the Over The Air website later on.
Mobile 2.0 @ Plugg
14 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele March 22nd, 2008 in Social Media, Operators, Mobile Apps, Mobile Web, Mobile Lifestyle, web 2.0, Mobile Events, Mobile Content, Cool Devices, Analysis, Mobile Advertising, Mashup, Mobile Search, Mobile OS, LBS, Mobile RSS, mobile 2.0, Trends, Proximity Marketing, Image Recognition, QR codes, Innovation, Spanish Startups, Mobile Video, Startups, Nokia, IPTV, Mobile Games, Location-Based, ConvergenceHere’s my updated overview presentation on Mobile 2.0 I did last week in Brussels at the Plugg Conference, a great initiative by Robin Wauters. The conference included a Start-Ups Rally won by Viewdle.
I saw many people taking pictures during the presentation
I you’re one of them, and if you want to share them just ping me if you have some good ones, I’ll be happy to link them and/or share them with my readers.
NOTE: As for the startups represented here, they are only some of the ones I am following. This is not intented as a complete overview but a representation and moment in time. If you’re not included in this presentation you might be in my next one
Just ping me if I missed you somehow.
Some bloggers reported already (in Dutch) on my presentation:
Tom Wesseling @ Marketingfacts
Google’s move to Mobile
3 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele October 16th, 2007 in Social Media, mobile 2.0, Trends, Innovation, Startups, Convergence, GoogleYesterday I did the introduction at the Mobile 2.0 Conference - which was GREAT btw! Since the tremendous feedback I got on my recent Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem presentation (as of now nearly 5.000 views!), and many people asking about yesterdays’ presentation, I decided to upload my introduction on Slideshare here.
Included in my presentation is a new ’slide exchange’ collaboration I started with Raimo van der Klein from Amsterdam. Last week he pinged me on a new slide he made on Google’s move to mobile. We started to email a bit back and forth, commenting on eachothers slides until we were happy with a result that I included in my presentation yesterday.
Since the audience seemed to love the result, we decided to challenge the mobile community to think with us and improve these slides further. The goal is to get the best “analysis” of Google’s moves into the mobile space. If you would like to participate please visit this slideshare group and download the latest version and give it a go. Don’t forget to repost to the group otherwise your work can’t be enjoyed by others.
The Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem
13 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele September 22nd, 2007 in Social Media, Operators, Mobile Apps, Mobile Web, Mobile Events, Mobile Content, Predictions, mobile 2.0, Trends, Innovation, Startups, EventsHere’s my presentation on the Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem I did last week in London at the Mobile Web 2.0 Conference. Many people in the audience seemed to like the presentation, including Jeff Barr from Amazon. I decided to share the presentation with you here on my blog, comments more then welcome of course.
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