Tag Archive for 'Appcelerator'

Appcelerator Hits the Top 10

Published on February 25, 2008 in Startups and Technology. 0 Comments

I know, I know.  This blog is starting to become an Appcelerator fan boy site.  What can I say?  Jeff Haynie and crew are hitting on all cylinders.  I even opted to not talk about the latest addition to Appcelerator’s advisory board just to ease off some.  But Jeff isn’t making this easy.

The folks at Appcelerator (and Jeff himself) have announced that they made the Top 10 of TAG’s Most Innovative Technology Companies in Georgia.  At the TAG Summit on Wednesday Jeff is going to do a three minute pitch about his company (hmmm..  three minutes..  interesting amount of time - keep that in mind because you’ll be seeing that number again in a future post).

Too bad I can’t make the summit.  Speaking of which, you probably won’t see any posts from me between Wednesday and Sunday this week.  I’m occupied with some folks who are in town and we’ll be doing some crazy meetings while they’re here.  I’ll post details about this on my personal blog since it isn’t startup, entrepreneurship, or fund raising related.

Oh yeah, congratulations to Jeff and the Appcelerator crew.  Blah, blah, blah…  :-)

Appcelerator on Startup City TV

Published on February 22, 2008 in PR & the Press and Startups. 1 Comment

About a month ago, Jeff Haynie tweeted that he was heading out west for a filming of Startup City TV. Honestly, I didn’t know what Startup City TV was but now that I see Jeff was interviewed by Fritz Nelson, I get it. Fritz is a particularly nice guy who I had the pleasure of meeting many years ago. Jeff says the guy in the video is a dork (pretty sure he means himself and not Fritz). That might be true, but if so I want to be a dork too. Good job Jeff and the rest of the Appcelerator folks!

Appcelerator Has The Pedal To The Metal

Published on January 13, 2008 in Startups and Technology. 4 Comments

Appcelerator LogoBack in December Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright scored a big PR boost for their company, Appcelerator, by getting Marc Fleury to join their advisory board.

Most people would be happy and then take it easy based on this. Yeah, not these guys. From Jeff’s tweets, I learned that there was an article written about them and they were a finalist for an award.

Geek note: when you look at Jeff’s Twitter page, you’ll see he has customized it with the Appcelerator logo. He’s serving that logo off of Amazon’s S3 web service. Cool. It’s costing him .114 cents each time that image is served. Yeah, I did the math. Yeah, I’m a geek.

The article is a pretty nice writeup in Information Week. I hadn’t realized that their efforts might be causing issues at Adobe but it sure seems that way. It’s a good thing to disrupt the status quo. That’s what startups are all about.

Jolt AwardsOn top of that, they are a finalist in the Jolt Awards. Honestly, I don’t know anything about these awards but the fact that they’re from Dr. Dobb’s Journal must mean they are pretty legitimate. By the way, Appcelerator’s competition for the award includes Adobe and Sun. Not bad company to be in.

They’re pretty secretive about who is using the Appcelerator platform so I thought I’d go trolling. One I know is the Startup Weekend Atlanta company Skribit. I know this because Jeff and crew were involved in the development and they were able to get that going very quickly. The only other site I could find (honestly, I didn’t spend much time trolling) was Team One Eye which seems to be run by one of Appcelerator’s employees. I’d say it’s a a good vote of confidence if Appcelerator’s own employees are using their stuff for their non-work projects.

Appcelerator has been around for less than 2 years (including the time under the previous name - Hakano). I count eleven people on LinkedIn that say they work at Appcelerator (although Nolan’s profile still lists him as being at Vocalocity). Pretty sizeable and I think they’re growing fast. This will be a fun one to watch and could be another smashing Atlanta hit. By the way, they are self funded and have grown through revenue. That makes this an even better story!