Innotech Dallas 2012 Proxomo to Speak

Later this month is the second annual InnoTech Dallas one day conference!

When: Thursday, May 17, 2012

Who’s Going: Over 1000 business and technology professionals

Where: Irving Convention Center

Why: InnoTech continues to thrive as the region’s premier business and technology innovation conference and expo

Proxomo’s CEO, Daniel Knoodle will be speaking at the conference on mobile, backend as a service, appware, and the grand convergence of web & mobile.

Come join us at this tremendous event!

http://www.innotechconferences.com/dallas/?page_id=49

Concept to Implementation Checklist

1. Develop the idea.

2. Decide upon the target market or typical user profile.

3. Make a hardware choice for output and identify associated requirements.

4. Pick one or more programming languages.

5. Design a prototype of the program or service.

6. Write the program. (Using Proxomo API of course)

7. Test the program (also known as alpha testing).

8. Debug any problems identified through beta testing.

9. Distribute test copies for people, or “friendlies,” to test (also known as beta testing).

10. Debug any problems identified through beta testing.

11. Release the program or service to the general market.

12. Continue with the debugging process for any unforeseen issues following roll out.

Source: The Shift, by Allison Cerra & Christina James

Winston Edmondson Mayor

Think about it… what if local governments understood what we understand, that technology startups can significantly improve communities in a myriad of ways. We are talking about everything from their physical presence, to the products and services that they offer. Entrepreneurs, and the startup culture that they bring with them, are good for communities. This is the theme we’ll be exploring on Thursday, April 26 at the Studio Movie Grill in Lewisville from 6-9pm. The discussion will be led by the modern day legends Lewisville mayoral candidate Winston Edmondson and LaunchDFW’s Brad Anderson!

Join in the discussion about what some of the interesting possibilities that might come about when local governments, city managers, city councils, and mayors truly understand the value of the Startup Community? This will be phenomenal future minded conversation.

We encourage all our followers to come out and join this interactive conversation!

Read more about it at LaunchDFW

Daniel and MeL at RoundUpforStartup 2012

There was a good mix of junior level and senior level folks in many different functional areas. These events can be mundane and robotic, but not this one!

Great job to the organizers, Chris Gay, Shelby Menczer, and all the volunteers who put on this tremendous event.

For those that were not able to make it out, here is a list of the companies looking for talent: Zengine, PureDiscovery, Dialexa, Kammok, Power10, XCube Labs, Oven Bits, Vision2Systems, Neuroblast, Campus2Careers, Nimbix, MoreTap, ShopSavvy, ZenCash, Novation Mobile, GeoForce, Rethink Books, ORM Tech, Proxomo and more to be announced soon! Follow them on Twitter for continuous updates: @roundupstartups.

Proxomo to Attend First Annual RoundUp for StartUps Recruiting Event

Here are the details:

A free, fun and innovative networking event to match great companies with great talent. Brought to you by Dallas’ startup community, for the community!

Join us at this first-of-its-kind Dallas event to learn just how rewarding a start-up lifestyle can be in North Texas – imagine, you could be a part of the next big thing!

100 Salaried Jobs @ 40 Companies
April 21, 2012

4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

RSVP: www.roundupforstartups.com
Two hours of recruiting and networking followed by
two hours of socializing and entertainment
Deep Ellum Brewing Co.
2821 St. Louis Street
Dallas, TX

Proxomo API Team BeMyAppWeekend

Proxomo will be participating in another excellent Hackathon event this month – BeMyApp Dallas – The 2012 Mobile App Olympics – Hackathon Competition! This is a three day event being held at Tech Wildcatters (also known as TechChurch) 2700 Fairmount Street Dallas, TX 75204
Register here!

Here are the “official” details for this 2012 Mobile App Olympics:
A mobile app design & development competition. Find the skills and inspiration to turn your app idea into a reality in just 48 hours, while competing with a global community in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, London, and Paris.

On Friday evening, registered idea generators have one minute to pitch an app concept to a tech audience. Attending designers and engineers as well as our team of glorious mentors vote for the best ideas that will be developed into applications during the weekend. Teams are formed around the most promising projects and the competition begins. On Sunday evening, the teams will present to a panel of celebrity judges and to the victors will go the spoils (our awesome sponsored prizes).

This BeMyApp Weekend is dedicated to all platforms – both native and mobile web apps. It will take place simultaneously in 7 cities around the world. Dallas • New York • San Francisco • Berlin • London • Paris • Zurich

Each city will nominate its best app to compete in the finals. A 48-hour worldwide vote will be launched and a worldwide winner will be selected. The winner will receive the 2012 Gold Medal in Mobile Apps!

Confirmed Prizes

The best prize you’ll get is the connections you forge and the challenge you conquer. That said, we’ve got some pretty sweet cherry-on-top prizes planned too:
Squarespace Business Package ($480 value) • iPhone Boot Camp Ticket ($910 value) • GitHub Bronze Account ($300 value) • CloudBees DevPro ($600 value) • Nokia Lumia (2 each $500 value) • Blackberry Playbook Tablet (6 each $250 value for the global winner) • Coverage by top tech bloggers including Reuters, Wired, & TNW (priceless)

Technologies and Tools You Might Use

iOS – iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch • HTML5 • Android (Ice Cream Sandwich) • Windows Phone 7 (WP7) • bada
Objective-C (ObjC) • Mono • Javascript • JQuery • Java • C#
OpenGL • Unity 3D • WebGL • XAML
JSON • XML
Xcode • Sencha • Eclipse • Visual Studio • Photoshop • Illustrator • Keynote
Game • Utility • Social – Twitter, Facebook • API • Location-based • Gamification

All apps built during the WeekEnd belong to the participants only (we take no ownership, promise).

Got questions? Email ben@getliquid.com

Sign Up Here… It’s Free!

More details…

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Mobile App Hackathons is an event geared towards getting your app, business or idea venture to market!

We will provide on-the-ground technical support, known as “senseis” [look for them wearing orange shirts with the word "sensei" on the back], from AT&T, Microsoft, Amazon, HTC and others to help you accelerate the execution of your ideas/business, rapidly kickstart a prototype mobile application and spin-off a successful venture.

6PM – Friday Evening. AT&T Mobile App Hackathon. Kickoff event with drinks, networking, and developer dating which leads into idea pitches and team formation.

10AM – Saturday Morning – AT&T Mobile App Hackathon. The fun continues with an all day hackathon. Work with the teams that you formed on Friday night to produce the app spec’d out the night before. Senseis will be available throughout the entire event to help you code up your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 7PM.

10AM – Saturday Morning – Mega Meetup. If you are not technical or not interested in coding, you can still come join the fun with our Mega Meetup. We have invited all of the area’s technical meetup groups to come and meet on the same day. The idea here is that the groups are split into back-end (cloud, azure, etc.), front-end (HTML5, Java, etc.), and business (WordPress, Drupal, analytics, consulting etc.). This way, you can walk in with an idea and out the other side with a business plan and team!

7PM – Saturday Evening. Promptly at 7PM, teams will begin pitching their ventures. Pitches are limited to three (3) minutes per team.

Prizes. The following prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge:

•AT&T Foundry – Select teams will have the opportunity to pitch the AT&T Foundry on their idea for possible further funding
•Gift Cards – 1st Place – $300, 2nd Place $200, 3rd Place $100
•Apigee – Top four (4) teams producing an app using Apigee APIs will receive a $250 gift card.
•Sierra Wireless – 1st place team is seeded with AT&T 4G Elevate Hotspot devices with one (1) month of free service
•AT&T mHealth – This prize will focus specially on the AT&T mHealth APIs and is currently TBD
•Microsoft – Top Two (2) teams producing a WP7 app receive Windows Phone 7 devices
•HTC – Top team using HTC OpenSense SDK receives 1 HTC Jetstream Tablet for each team member (max of 3)
Judging Criteria. Apps will be judged based on the the criteria below and weighted accordingly.

•33% Weight – Ability to clearly articulate what your app does
•33% Weight – Originality of idea
•33% Weight – Use of Node.JS, Sencha, cloud9ide.com, Heroku, and other technologies

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Proxomo Showcased in Alcatel-Lucent Pavillion at CES 2012

Proxomo CES Headquarters via AirBnB