John Economaki runs Bridge City Tools, a 25-year old company that makes finely-crafted woodworking tools. John was working on a new tool, the extremely cool Angle Master Pro (see the video here), and wanted to develop an app instead of producing a booklet. The booklet had massive tables covering thousands of angle calculations for calibrating [...]
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The Power of Your Own App
February 24, 2011A New Year, A New Perspective: Web Economics in an App World
January 16, 2011January starts my 14th year running Infinity Softworks and being in the mobile space. I have seen this market change drastically in those years, from a market dominated by Palm to a market dictated by Microsoft, from handheld computers to smartphones, from Nokia and BlackBerry to Apple and Google. And, from my perspective, the most [...]
Now There’s An App For That
November 3, 2010For years, we were the only ones. Sure there were other calculators made by shareware developers or guys in their living rooms who tried to compete. But no one came close. After all, we had an advantage. Teri Graf, my long-time VP of Sales, and I went out and completed bundling deals with everyone selling [...]
Innovate or Die: Lessons From BlockBuster Applied to powerOne
July 14, 2010If you missed it the king’s of the movie rental business, Blockbuster, is being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. I guess the news wasn’t totally surprising. After all Oregon’s very own Hollywood Video, bought by a Texas company called Movie Gallery, went bankrupt a few months ago. And every little movie rental place [...]
powerOne Honored As Staff Pick
June 18, 2010How exciting to wake up in the morning and see that the sales have doubled. I never expect it but it has happened a couple of times. After a moment of shock, I now know to go check out the App Store and see what honor we received. For the first time, starting last night, [...]
