Slack Picks Up $250 Million in Funds from SoftBank

Chances are, iPhone app developers have used Slack or are currently using it to ease communication and collaboration in their work lives. It’s a valuable tool, and it has been steadily improving recently. A few weeks ago, the startup aped a feature from competitor (and one-time potential acquirer) Microsoft that gives companies the ability to […]

MedTech Startups Like EverlyWell Bring Lab Testing Home

https://staging.dogtownmedia.com/app-developers-austin/ As mobile app developers know, even if you have health insurance, getting blood work done can be expensive. The initial visit to the doctor’s office is inevitably followed by a bill from a clinical lab that sometimes adds up to hundreds of dollars. Fortunately, several mHealth startups are coming up with practical, money-saving solutions […]

London Vs Berlin For Building Seed-stage Startups

Every startup is unique, and every startup-friendly city offers its own brand of charm and advantage. From London’s abundance of venture capital to Berlin’s bootstrap paradise, both cities offer compelling advantages to startup founders and iPhone app developers setting up shop. Dogtown Media has had a presence in London for some time, but it wasn’t […]

4 Ways to Guarantee Your Startup Doesn’t Get Funded

Venture capital firms, angel investors, and iPhone app development companies all have one big factor in common: they hear dozens of new startup ideas every single day. The mobile industry is only growing in 2016, and with that growth comes a rush of smart young technologists and entrepreneurs with big dreams. More often than not, […]

Will 2016 Be the Golden Age of FinTech App Development?

The Lending Club IPO in 2014 marked the beginning of a Renaissance for FinTech app developers, with financial app services launching with ever-greater frequency (and ever-larger funding). Today, FinTech app startups like Mint and Robinhood are disrupting the personal finance and stock trading industries respectively, leading developers to wonder: how much more room for growth […]

500 Startups Batch 15 Targets Unique Markets

Startup watchers and mobile app developers will notice two themes running strong in this years 500 Startups batch. First, the group is highly international, featuring startups from Hong Kong, Argentina, Vietnam, Japan, Denmark, and Italy alongside stateside San Francisco mobile app developers, just to name a few. (the startups selected also showed a refreshing gender […]