I have recently been approached by an entrepreneur who has quite a lot of content previously published in print media and would like to monetize the content through e-publishing. His original idea was to develop a custom application. It is not a reasonable course of action any more.
The year 2011 has ended and I think one might justifiably claim that it was a ‘year of mobile’ indeed. We are going through tough economic times and yet we can observe how smartphones, tablet devices and mobile technologies are driving the growth of world’s largest markets like the US, Europe and Asia.
One of the key findings of the research project is that founders that have supportive mentors, track metrics, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more capital and have 3.5x better user growth. In short, startups that learn are more successful.
In October, we attended an extraordinary event in Vienna – the Startup Week Europe. Its goal was to gather, introduce and put in a contest 50 of the most interesting application startups from the Central and Eastern European region, each of them being present in the market for no longer than four years.
