What Does It Really Take to Succeed as an Entrepreneur Today?
Is it possible to break down the recipe to entrepreneurial success into its key ingredients? This is the exact topic that Rhett Power, entrepreneur and business coach, tackles in his latest article for Inc., “Is Entrepreneurship Getting Harder? 5 Ways to Be Successful in the Digital Age”. Marc Fischer, our very own CEO and co-founder, is […]
VR and EdTech Could Help Shrink the Class Divide
America has a class divide problem, and nowhere is that problem more apparent than in the school system. Programs like Teach For America work against the odds, but the facts remain: students born in the right places with the right level of family stability and income come out far ahead of those without. The question […]
Why Co-Founders Should Learn Basic Coding Skills
If you ever take a look at Hacker News comment threads or the Reddit startup community, you’ll notice a consistent trend: non-technical founders desperately seeking technical co-founders. This trend holds true in real-life mobile app development circles around Silicon Valley (and Silicon Beach for that matter). The difficulty with finding a technical co-founder isn’t entirely […]
Dogtown Media Open-Sources Industry Experience in New Blog
Startups face an uphill battle in today’s crowded app store, where only 10% of startups reach their financial goals. For many founders, the biggest roadblock to success is finding the information they need to lay a solid groundwork. Dogtown Media aims to solve that problem with their latest blog, The Startup Zone, by providing free […]
What If Someone Steals My Great App Idea?
Startup founders are protective of their ideas, and for good reason. While it’s true that “execution is everything” in the mobile app development industry, execution can’t happen without a good idea to base it on. With that in mind, pitching and team building can become an exercise in paranoia for founders with particularly innovative ideas. […]
Why You Need a Co-founder and Where to Find One
Partnering with a capable co-founder may not be a requirement, but it’s strongly suggested by leading venture capitalists. Investor Paul Graham famously listed single-founder team structures as one of the leading causes of startup failure. Any iPhone app developer can tell you that the road to startup success is challenging emotionally as well as logistically, […]
How to Future-proof Job Titles in Your Startup
In established mobile app development enterprises, the question of who gets what title is relatively simple. The most experienced iPhone app developer is obviously the senior iOS developer. Who’s most qualified to manage big-picture company growth? That’d be the CEO. …But for early-stage startups, the question of roles and titles is a little more convoluted, […]