New smartphone applications (“apps”) are being developed at a rate of nearly 1,000 new titles a day. While Apple’s brilliance in cultivating the developer community receives much of the credit for this incredible phenomenon, it has also ridden the back of the global economic meltdown coinciding with the rise of the iPhone. “Huh, come again,” … Continue reading “The Underlying Impact of the “Apps” Phenomenon on VC-Backed Software Startups”