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SUMMARY:Google Wave Portland Users
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4635672/ ] Discuss Google's powerful new collaboration tool Google Wave. This is a twist on the "Wiki Wednesday" events run by Ward Cunningham (@wardcunningham).
 
 More information is at http://wave.google.com and http://www.waveprotocol.org/
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/94174/":AboutUs offices @ 107 SE Washington St.\, Suite 520\,\, Portland\, Oregon 97214 US
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SUMMARY:Mobile Portland: Warm\, Clothed\, and Fed—Developer run iPhone businesses
DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4769699/ ] Note: We've moved the November meeting from its normal date to accommodate Dan's travel schedule. 
 
 As developers\, we bring a certain set of skills\, biases and preferences to business.  These act as a double edged sword\; we make great business people when we play to our strengths\; we fail when we try to be something we're not.
 
 There are sweet-spots in the iPhone market that will sustain\, on a continual basis small\, developer run\, 1-3 person iPhone companies.
 
 This is a talk about identifying those market opportunities.   This talk is about capitalizing on them in a way that plays to our strengths and mitigates our weaknesses.  This talk is about the choices we make when we start our own developer run iPhone businesses.  Topics include:
 
 * Choosing the type of business: are your customers iPhone consumers\, companies that need iPhone apps\, or other iPhone developers?
 * Data-informed app price and product-category strategy.
 * Marketing from code.
 * Contract wages and the $10\,000 problem.
 
  About Dan Grigsby 
 
 Dan runs Mobile Orchard \, the #1 iPhone development podcast and community site.  As the rare programmer/business type guy\, he's as happy running marketing hacks as he is hacking iPhone code.  He's happiest giving talks that incorporate elements of both\, so speaking about developer-run iPhone businesses is pretty much the rapture.  Previously\, Dan founded/ran startups\, including one that was acquired by Microsoft and another that was the only-ever successful competitor to PayPal.
 
 Dan is visiting Portland to teach a two-day Beginning iPhone Development class .
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LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/94174/":AboutUs offices @ 107 SE Washington St.\, Suite 520\,\, Portland\, Oregon 97214 US
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