I’ll be giving a talk at TechStart event at Aalto Entrepreneurship Society today. The talk will be from a bit different view point than before. I’ll explore why focusing on mobile is suddenly interesting for small startup companies. The event is sold-out, but there is an after-event meetup at Ravintola Teatteri around 20:30. If you want to chat, drop by at the meetup!
I’ll be discussing about startups and the future of mobile in a panel at ArcticEvening in Stockholm tonight. Feel free to come to discuss after the panel. I’m interested in various topics including but not limited to:
On Friday, I’ll be working and hanging around Stockholm. Tips for interesting restaurants appreciated! You can reach me privately via email: teemu.kurppa@iki.fi.
In addition to the Platform = Stage – How to choose a mobile development platform talk I gave in MobileDevCamp Helsinki, I gave a short BarCamp presentation about iPhone memory management practices titled Leaks & Zombies. It’s a more technical presentation, targeted to novice and intermediate iPhone programmers.
Here are slides of a talk that I gave a few weeks ago in MobileDevCamp Helsinki. It’s a modified version of a similar talk that I gave in Slush Helsinki conference last fall.
Talk discusses an important changes that happened in a mobile business in 2008. It discusses what problems iPhone’s AppStore solves – namely distribution and payment problems – and what it doesn’t – marketing. Compared to a talk gave in Slush Helsinki, this version doesn’t include a part discussing mobile web and HTML 5.
Have you ever heard of Travian? No? That’s what I thought. Have you heard of Second Life? Probably.
Travian is a browser based free strategy game, a phenomenon that almost nobody has heard of.
But look the graph below. That is what we call true virality: almost zero news about Travian anywhere, but it’s growing steadily and it’s big. People join Travian because they heard about it from other people, who are so enthusiastic about it to recommend it to a friend.
Check out also these:
Despite the hype everywhere, Twitter is just catching up Travian
And let’s put things to a perspective, Travian vs. Jesus.
