Pitch contest winners – Sonar, Pixable, and oGolf

Panel slides – Mobile App Startups

Panel topics include:

• Which companies and sectors within mobile app startups are the most profitable
• Revenue models for mobile apps – what works and what doesn’t
• Premium apps, mobile advertising, m-commerce, mobile content sales, in-app sales, etc
• Marketing mobile applications.  Dynamics of app store marketing and non app-store marketing
• Designing and building minimal viable mobile apps
• Selecting a mobile app development agency. Recruiting mobile talent.
• And much more…

Moderator:

• Graham Lawlor, Founder of Ultra Light Startups

Panelists (alphabetic order):

• Nihal Mehta (@nihalmehta) Co-Founder and CEO at buzzd, General Partner at ENIAC Ventures
• Dan Melinger (@bionicdan) Co-Founder and CEO at Socialight, Founder/Organizer of Mobile Monday NY
• Greg Raiz (@graiz) Founder and CEO at Raizlabs
• Matthew Snyder (@matsnyder2001) Founder and CEO at ADO Strategies

Nihal Mehta

Dan Melinger

Greg Raiz

Matthew Snyder

Smule is a California based company, founded in 2008 that makes iPhone applications.  Its biggest hit is called Ocarina, a virtual musical wind instrument (video).  As of December 2008 the application has been downloaded 400,000 times and Smule is set to become a $1 million revenue company in its first year.  This article in Newsweek describes the companies history, founders and products.

Platform: iPhone