November 2011
8 posts
YieldKit wins WebFuture award
Last night YieldKit was awarded the WebFuture first prize in Hamburg. Selected from among 10 finalists, the judges valued YieldKit’s innovativeness, execution and marketing prowess in their appraisal. YieldKit took home 10,000 euros in prize money and another valuable milestone. You can read more about the event here (in German).
YieldKit recently launched YieldWord, a semantic page...
Time to Market - Talk from Build 0.7
For startups, time to market is the time from having an idea to having that idea out in the market making money. In this talk Stephan Schmidt imparts his experience in this key product development concept.
“If a feature is worth developing, it is worth getting to market sooner”, Stephan posits. Short time to market is a huge lever that you can employ to the benefit of your bottom...
Future of 3D game technologies - Talk from Build...
Jonas Echterhoff works on the Mac browser plugin of the Unity 3D game engine, and in this talk he outlines what he thinks is the future of 3D games technology.
Unity 3D allows developers to develop a game on one framework and port that to multiple platforms quickly. Jonas discussed the future of 3D gaming in the browsers from a technical and platform perspective and gives an appraisal of the...
Delta Strike launches in-game item shop
In tune with their roadmap, team at Delta Strike has just released an in-game shop for decking out those starfighters. Keeping with the high visual standards, the items look awesome and surely those hard-earned credits will go into good use. We’re definitely grabbing a few droids to go on the side.
Read the team’s detailed blog post on the milestone here.
YieldKit launches YieldWord
HackFwd alumni YieldKit has just launched a powerful addition to the website monetization arsenal. YieldWord converts keywords on page into affiliate links – fully automatically and cleanly, while giving the publishers control over the category and even exact matching of products. You can take a look at the various examples in this blog post introducing the demo.
With YieldWord, YieldKit has a...
Fantasy Shopper takes Gold
Fantasy Shopper has won first prize in Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge held in San Jose, CA last night. The winners are taking home prizes of $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, Gold support, technical mentoring, and a golden hammer. They are also the first non-US startup to win the contest which has been run since 2007. HackFwd is very proud of the well-deserved achievement of the...
Pitch in Berlin v2 - apply now!
Have a startup? Want to have a startup? HackFwd announces Pitch in Berlin v2!
At our previous Build event in Berlin, we ran a pitching contest called Pitch in Berlin. The event was so successful and the pitches and startups of such high quality that we want to do it again. You can read about the some of the contestants in this TechCrunch article or on the HackFwd blog. If you want to know more...
The Story of AroundMe - Talk from Build 0.7
AroundMe is a location-aware search iPhone app, and one of the biggest ones. Marco Pifferi is the man behind the hugely popular app, and in this video he shares his learnings from building and releasing an app that has been downloaded over 30 million times with 5 million monthly unique users who have 6-8 monthly engagements on average. Apple also used AroundMe in their TV ads, which certainly...
