GMIC: October 22-23, 2013

Location: Moscone South; San Francisco, CA

What does it mean to crowd source? How would a company collect money that they can raise to benefit them and to what does that entail?

With so many products and services being launched, what makes one particular company stand out from their potential competitors? What is it about their products and/or services which makes them worthwhile for investors to actually invest in?

There are so many new products and services, and a good portion on them do have a lot of users and subscribers, but does mean that their company will be able to stand the test of time?

Many companies from all over the San Francisco Bay Area are launching and publishing their companies that involve social apps and games. People have come from all over the world to join in on the industry.

What is the evolution of mobile gaming? What kind of mobile games are people playing and with what benefit? What are some of the cinematic changes are ahead? As it can be with expensive budgets, the games that are being played, have more and better graphics. Mobile games aren’t just on smartphones but are readily available on tablets.

We have to be unique and find that extraction to be “big” and successful. There are so many competitors and many others can outperform one another on price for their products and services. What can we do in the next couple of years to make sure we get the best for venture capitalists?

What’s achievable within a company and creating something that will stand to the test of time? What is the innovations that such projects can benefit with the investments that were involved? Obviously there are tons of transactions that are taking a toll in marketing and changes. Oddly, most are converting to online advertising. All companies need to master online marketing by means of acquisition.

What can be mapped in the channels to marketing to scale to get more customers? Companies are forgetting to analyze how many consumers and the demographics who are investing their product and is a problem. It doesn’t matter what it is unless, the static are in place. Where is the feedback in all of this? Companies should also incubate their business plans to testing and getting the science to succeeding in this modern area.

What formats are the applications and games available in and if it’s not currently available, when will it be? Engineers tend to not forget that the average person isn’t aware of how all of these new technologies function.

So what can be done about this? Well, companies need to keep track of the data that is coming in for their products and services for the mobile devices. This is the future to improve as hardware changes, software needs to adapt to the change of times. It is important to generate revenue so that developers continue to upgrade their products along with the best connections that are available in the current time.

Licensing is important to get the application shared amongst others. Mobile carriers require multi formats when licensing, so all the programming that is involved needs to be checked thoroughly before the final submission to avoid problems once they’re launched.

What about monetization? Most games and apps are free on the open markets such as Android and iOS. Advertising can help a company monetize their applications but it is of the concept, “It takes money to make money”. Companies need to execute a plan to generate profit once their games are released with the use of mobile advertising for that consumers will in turn buy into the applications so that developers can be able to afford to generate more and better games ahead. There are many way to monetize, but research is highly required and what types do end users want can vary on the pricing model.

So what does creating a social or gaming application mean to you if you are a developer? What would it mean to you if you are the user and what are you looking for to use?