Unity developer conference day2 #daily notes #unite11

#unity for education
Classroom, conference, online venue - education
Walkerboystudio.com/html/unite11.html

#unity for students
@davidkoontz

#learning unity
Best game engine on the planet
Learn to program - book: "how to think like a programmer"
Start with 2d and scratch, Gamemaker, stencyl - 6weeks
Pick a language on unity: javascript or C# (javascript: easier, C#: complex) dont mix it
Decide to make a game and 18 month later you know about unity
Realize you need lineare algebra - you need vectors (1 day enough)
Practice games you can make in one day
Clone a classic game: asteroids, space invaders, pac-man
Now you have a sense of unity
The bigger the project early on, the less learning there will be!
You cant learn it all at once, be persistent and focus on learning the tools and not making a game first.
DavidAThappycamperstudios.com

#using unity to present art
To land a job or target audience
Export FBX format from autocad
Import in unity


#todos
book: "how to think like a programmer"

Unity3d developer conference #day1 #daily notes

Unity V 3.5

#asset store
Makes 140k a month

#API for Social graph integration
Cross platform: Ios game center, Facebook, PS3
Microphone and webcam input

#Analytics
Key to monetization
Heatmap where to loose people, where they start to pay
Zero day analytics:
Completely integrated
Hosted by

#In-App Purchase
Cross-platform
Tied into analytics and social

#AAA Initiative
Larger projects
More demanding teams
Setting new standards

#infinityblade 40% of $10M in 6month frm in-app purchs

@davidBrevik Future of game industry
Build software knowing your hardware focus on audience

#evolutions
Architecture: Lan, internet, mmo/social
Control: Joystick, controler, mouse, wii, touch
Distribution: Disk, retail, website, appstores, facebook
Business: sell to mass, subscribtion, free to play

#Future of game dev:
No install,
everyone can access,
Mobile (tablet, phone)
Cloud. multi-device gaming (anywhere, any device)
Free to play
You can all make it with unity!
Gazillion entertainment

#family guy online - making of
Mmo social game
@Roadhouse ceo, coordinator
Production company for making games like movies
@acronym developer company (39 people in vancouver)
Funky - developer
200 developer month
Photon network layer
Photon from exitgames for multiplayer realtime features

#Todos
Yetizen Incubator for games

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Pitches at founders institut #daily notes @clientMagnet @grubCrawl @explorence @steelhanger

#Pitches
With my notes and votes > 2 means possible investment

@Chalkwise 2/4
Dashboard for kids grades
#education

@logrado 1/4
Sms reminder platform for colleges
>Wrong motivation in my eyes
Looking for 250k

@explorence 3/4
Outdoor video games + facebook
Bit like gowalla meets runkeeper meets mytown
Looking for 500k

@mobtest 2/4
99design for mobile app testing

@steelhanger 3/4
Subscription model to buy men cloth without going shopping. Choose
your style and get deliveries

@holisticMD 2/4
Marketplace for alternative healthcare
Chiropractor, accupunctur,
>Difficult distribution > seo
Looking for 500k

@inveska 2/4
Rating mutual funds
Algorithm for investment decision

@clientMagnet 3/4
Automated Marketing solutions for smb
Remember your clients to come back via email + call
Freemium model
300k revenue in 2011
Based on intuit appstore
Looking for 750k

@grubCrawl 3/4
Food events
Meet new people and discover restaurants together
3 different locations per event
#crowdsourcing

#adeos keynote
Eqity compensation contract for advisors now live on his new website

#Todos
Problem first + existing solutions and competitors
Distribution
Team at the end (we can make it)
Check Eloqua marketo

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Pnp expo pitches #daily notes @inboxFever

My notes and votes out of 4 points.
> 2 potential investing

Judge winners: spool, cloudless, snackr

@Emove 2/4
Wave electric generator
In 6 years profitable
50k from richard branson for prototype
Looking 5m funding

@gripNote 2/4
Amazon for student notes
Looking for 400k funding
#crowdsourcing

@userZoom 2/4
Optimising user experience #ux
Saas ux research
3m revenue 2011, break even
Looking for scale

@myBantu 2/4
Personalized social recommendation app iphone
Virtual personal assistant
#crowdsourcing

@vixlo 1/4
Survey monkey for product research with coupons for customers

@pangia 2/4
Analytics for buildings
Looking for 1.6m

@inbenta 2/4
Search for enterprise websites
Natural language search insted of keyword search
No money needed yet

@agoraSessions 1/4
Recommendation platform (don't got it)
Look 1m

@routershare 2/4
Cloud router technology

@ixion 2/4
Talent find facebook app
Build your talent avatar
Collect data from fb linkedin
Look for 2m

@ModeWalk 2/4
Emotional shopping solution for luxury goods

@infinica 1/4
Document based communication
Looking series a

@spendgo 1/4
Loyalty solution
Looking 6m

@tubaloo 2/4
Google voice global or skype
Reduce costs of international calls
Looking 4m

@inboxFever 3/4
Email powered application platform
Send an request via email and get an result via email
#disruptive

@cardFlick 1/4
Businesscard exchange app
Looking 1m

#jeffJordan
Ebay, paypal, Opentable,
Local Salesforce is a big value

Secret of YC etc?
Intensity, environment, competition,
Community, time presure, learning

#Todos
Checkout ixion
Pnp mobile app for voting
Zoosk 50m user
userZoom

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Startup2startup - @karaswisher #daily notes

@KaraSwisher from @allThingsD
Make a nice product, the press and customer will follow
@Sparks - good PR company in Silicon Valley
Stagnation at PC's and laptops , mobiles and tablets grow
Twitter is a very good source for news
Be honest and be yourself

#Followup
Manu Kumar - schedule a demo
Gagan udemy -
Bhanu S (he loves the idea and name) - invite for beta
Miten Sampat (angel class stanford) - invite for beta
Scott Schube @happytoymachine

Todos
#a orchestra for iphone
Read 3pm allthingsd

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Techcrunch disrupt summary day 2 @growtheplanet @Talkto @trello #daily notes

As always, my notes and votes out of 4 points, > 2 means I probably
would invest.

@VinodKhosla - khosla ventures
Calls himself a venture assistant and loves to take risks
Only advises entrepreneurs, don't takes board seats

@MenloTalentFund starts 20m fund
Seed deals last year: accel:30, charles river:91, google80

@AshtonKutcher
#a Show next monday Magic tricks
Team helps to sort and simplify deals

#startup battlefield

@Talkto 3/4
Text any local bsuiness
Like sms
Get rid of your requests and get asynchron feedback
In the backend they use call center for businesses, which are not connected yet
@rewardli 2/4
Affiliate commissions as cashback for consumers
@trello 3/4
Organize anything together
Who is doing what?
Project management and workflow process on digital cards. Light wight pms
Free
@prismSkylabs 2/4
Video observing in public places by protecting privacy
We bring physical spaces online
Closed 1m round
Beta: Pri.sm/beta
@meexo 1/4
Mobile dating
@rentloard
Real estate business without agents

#startup alleey
@vidcaster 2/4
Whitelabel youtube
@toutap 2/4
Crm feature for gmail, for serial emails
@playsay 2/4
Facebook language learning app social education
@findAheroBeAhero
@growtheplanet 3/4
IOT internet of things for your garden #crowdsourcing
Learn to garden
Share your tomatos
Peer to peer

#Todos
@trello 3/4
#a Show next monday Magic tricks

#globumbus
Virtual pitch room (live, asynchron, any device, vote, comment, chat,
checkin, apply, advise,
Like virtual worlds like Shaker, turntable, vcruise
#invest in people rather then ideas: thrustfund.com
uniform
Contract generator like @rentloard

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Techcrunch disrupt summary day1 #disruptsf11 #daily notes

#Founder stories
@arrington unpaid blogger
@ReidHoffmann
40 investments last year

@MikeMcCue flipboard
3,5m downloads 500mio flips per month

@DouglasLeone sequoia
The dna of a company is set in the first 60-90 days
Loves entrepreneurs fixing their own problem
Advises startups to come to Bay Area
Startup advantg: speed+ stealth, shut up until ur ready
Leone@sequoia.com

@PaulGraham Ycombinator
6 pitches from startups

@DustinMoskovitz asana
Many more ideas gets funded in the Bay Area

#startup battle field pitches
@tonara 2/4
sheet music ipad app
@farmigo 2/4
GroupBuy food dirct from farmers and pickup close to u
@housefix 1/4
Manage your house repairs and contractors
@openbucks 1/4
Use giftcards to pay online
@cakehealth 2/4
Manage healthcare expenses
@younow
Crowdsourcing live music artist contests
Like chat roullett for music

#Startupalley
@Quixey 2/4
app search engineqq
@tweaker 3/4
crowd investments analysis,
Launching next week in appstore
Looking for 500k for development in india and china
@shoutAtweet
Group tweeting
@didthis 2/4
Run keeper for everything
500k usd only cash To pay 5 people (already on board)
@proximiant 1/4
Get receipts to your mobilephone on nfc
@positiveTalk 2/4
Social analytics
@spiralMoon 1/4
Traditional Video pitch production comp in mountain view
Example video: "Share the air"
@plango
Mobile social calendar for facebook
@picdish 2/4
Quora + facebook for food
750k for distribution and
@picBadges 3/4
Viral facebook campaign using your profile picture
12m users within 12month
watermark url on profile
700k-1m directsales, development
@opensesame
Udemy for b2b
looking for 2m
@vCruise 4/4
Sims 3d on facebook
Chat, play, watch youtube together, schedule parties, battles etc
Live on 9/15
Looking for 1m for distribution, contact to celebrities, to become
top 10 facebook game
Monetization: Virtual goods and vip status
10 people (6artists 3developers in palo alto)
@Amen 2/4
Platform for strong statements
@idle-Games 3/4
Facebook game
Analyze interests to invite your friens (recommendation)
The game needs to breaks the ice for you

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Startup weekend gaming demo session #daily notes @JukeDJ @gambit @Gablinga

After one weekend working on their idea, the teams present their results.
Here are my notes and votes, as always potential investments >2/4

@gambit 3/4
Online betting, we create adds as digital bookmaker
Want to become open api for all online game bettings
(Big business in korea with starcraft etc games)
Deployed on heroku
Looking for: Legal counsels and mentors

@HappyAnimals 1/4
PlayForLife (gaming, life, education) casual games
#HappySalmon, first game, help him to get home
App stores: apple microsoft android amazon
Looking for: Money, developer, designer, ux experts

@Gablinga 3/4
Social In-Person gaming platform
#Hotpotato handover the phone (like stuhltanz) and win a drink

@be-novative 1/4
Game to Unlock your creativity

@brainiacSports 2/4
Challenge your sports knowledge
Fantasy sports facebook game
Developed on Unity
Looking for: seed Money, developers

@FaceOff 3/4
Play with your face against face of your friend
Mobile shooting game

@afterPM 1/4
Find what's open after hours
Like "arround you" after 10pm or yelp with filter "open now"

@PuppyCannon 2/4
Mobile Real world games / educating game
Child take cares of an puppy (like tamagochi)
Business model: virtual goods, sponsorship

@JukeDJ 4/4
Iphone jukebox
Use your iphone in a bar or restaurant to choose music
Bar makes additional money and safes money on jukebox

#startupfever
#Ideas for real life game mechanics
two players to call the same number - first wins
bump at same time
Handover your phone

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German startups go to Silicon Valley #daily notes @globumbus

How can German companies, find money and market access in Silicon Valley?

#german funding landscape @JoannHalpern
German Center for Innovation
#Programs: Htgf, Frauenhofer attract, gepris, research-explorer, daad,
exist - entrepreneurs program, Go-Bio, humboldt-innovation, bmwi
@RichardBendis - blogger innovation daily
Germaninnovation.org

#German Silicon Valley Accelerator
@DirkKanngiesser, Dietmar Harrhoff, Oliver Hanisch
#program:
40 company program for next 3 years
3-6 month program in SV (german pavillion at pnp)
Mentor network
Who can apply? German tec startups, businessplan, part of an 'exist' program
Services: Office space, workshop , mentoring, networking events, visa service
Startups have to cover travel, food and housing costs
10/1 start of selection, 2012/1 first startups arrive
Apply: www.Germanaccelerator.com

#plugandplaytechcenter
Office space, data center, mentoring, services, events
600 startups icubated since 2006
750USD funding raised
50 service partners
150 VC partners
Plugandplaytechsenter.com

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