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PointAbout Ranked One of the “Hottest Companies in DC”

kiana.lewis — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:18:45 +0000

Lead411 has spoken again, and again PointAbout is among the companies to earn an honor from them, this time their “2011 Hottest Companies in DC Area.” This follows our being ranked 11th on the Lead411 Technology 500 List in December 2010. Out of the original 855 companies nominated, only the top 43 companies were chosen as the Hottest Companies in DC Area.

Founded in 2001, Lead411 tracks and provides quality corporate data information, news, and research about U.S. companies and their executives. For this particular honor, all companies must meet the criteria below:

1. Companies must be in Software, Hardware, Media, Internet, and Wireless industries.
2. Each company must meet either of the two stipulations:
• 100% increase in revenues over the past 2 years OR
• Over $2M in funding in the past 2 years

So, if you would, please forgive us for taking a moment out of our busy days to pat ourselves on the back. And thanks to Tom Blue and Lead411 for the honor!

Daniel R. Odio, CEO & Co-Founder of PointAbout, Featured on IdeaMensch

kiana.lewis — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:12:55 +0000

PointAbout’s CEO Daniel Odio sat down for an interview with the good people at IdeaMensch recently, following in the footsteps of visionaries like Craig Newmark, Seth Godin, and Gary Vaynerchuk. The interview covers Daniel’s interests and inspirations, AppMakr’s explosive growth, mobile trends that excite him, and some of the shared values that make AppMakr a great place to work.

Scott Suhy on PointAbout Being Ranked on the Lead411 Technology 500 List

kiana.lewis — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:15:02 +0000

Everybody here at PointAbout was thrilled to find out we were ranked #11 on the Lead411 Technology 500 list. The list came out last week and is comprised of the fastest-growing tech companies based on the percentage by which their revenues grew from 2007 to 2009.

Scott Suhy, our CEO and resident “mastermind of mobile phone apps” spent some time talking with Lead411’s Susan Payton about the honor, and this article was the result. In it, Scott touches on the diversity of PointAbout’s projects, the many successes of AppMakr, and what’s in store for 2011 for both sides of the company.

How to Succeed with Mobile Initiatives

drodio — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:42:52 +0000

I recently gave a talk at the Mobile Health Expo in Las Vegas titled “How to Succeed with Mobile Initiatives.” The audience was comprised of professionals in the health care industry keen on figuring out how to implement mobile initiatives in their industry.

I talk through the mobile pyramid, define terms like API, SDK, Cloud and others, explain how social media matters in mobile, and much more.

This is the first year of the conference, and many people who were there expect this vertical within mobile to blow up within the next 5 years. It felt a bit like being at the very beginning of a very big wave.

Here’s the video:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Native or Web?

drodio — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:33:41 +0000

I moderated a panel this week at the Mobile Health Expo on the pros & cons of native vs. HTML mobile development.

The panel speaker was Bill French, and he did a great job outlining the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. You can also find a related blog I posted of the recent Silicon Valley Mobile Monday event on the same topic.

Anyone trying to understand the challenges in mobile development should understand the mobile pyramid, and read PointAbout’s whitepapers on the topic – especially the one on 14 mistakes not to make.

The video of Bill’s presentation is below. You can also download his slides in Keynote and PowerPoint formats.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Executive Management Team

drodio — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:40:35 +0000

PointAbout was created in July, 2008 by four co-founders in Washington, DC.

Scott Suhy, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Scott has over 20+ years of experience at the forefront of the tehncology, internet and now the mobile revolution. Scott spent 16 years at Microsoft in many leadership capacities including General Manager of Microsoft’s Public Sector Business Development organization and General Manager for the Mid-America sales and services district, managing budgets of over $500MM and a team of over 150 employees. Scott resides in Washington, DC.

Daniel R. Odio, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Daniel is a proven technology entrepreneur and has been featured on CNN, CNBC, TLC, Forbes, WSJ, Washington Post and others for his innovative use of technology in the real estate market. Prior to real estate, Daniel was the VP, Sales of Accelerated Servers, a Beowulf supercomputing cluster company. Daniel was a member of General Electric’s Technical Leadership Program while at GE, working in Latin America, including Brazil and Argentina. Learn more about Daniel.

Sean Shadmand, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Sean was lauded as a “strategic genius” by The Washington Post. He is the visionary behind AppMakr.com, which has altered the mobile application development landscape and been featured worldwide in publications such as TechCrunch, Mashable, PBS, CBS, and by top tier bloggers such as Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin. He often speaks on social media and mobile panels. Previously, Sean was instrumental in growing Tagged.com from a 2 million member startup to a 40 million member profitable company. Sean focused on viral tuning, user acquisition and email deliverability. Sean is a co-founder of FamilyOven.com which gained 380K members and became operationally profitable within the first six months of operation.

Isaac Mosquera, Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer
Isaac has been architecting large-scale systems for the past 13 years. He is the co-creator of FamilyOven.com, one of the largest food-oriented social networking sites, which has been doubling in size month over month since 2007. Isaac brings extensive experience in architecting online publisher content and creating high scalability/load websites for brands such as Games Radar by Future Publishing (topping 100MM page views monthly) and XM Radio (XM’s traffic was greater than YouTube’s at the time), as well as a background in user acquisition and retention strategies. At PointAbout, Isaac has spearheaded the creation of AppMakr.com, an automated build platform to create applications across multiple phone platforms without the user needing to have any programming skills. Isaac resides in Arlington, VA.

Pete Johnson, VP, Professional Services
Pete has P&L and operational ownership of PointAbout’s consulting division. Prior to PointAbout, Pete founded Virtualogic, Inc. in 1993 and as CEO/President grew it through 2001 to $20M and 150 employees. The company performed IT services for Fortune 1000 clients, including web applications, Microsoft desktop and client server implementations, data warehousing/BI, and Java/XML applications. Pete sold the company to Hitachi as the first acquisition to comprise Hitachi Consulting Services. The company was known for its unique combination of delivery models and engineering excellence, integrating features from more established categories including: IT consulting, systems integration, software development, application hosting, and management consulting. The company achieved explosive growth while maintaining excellent customer standing and profitability, earning it numerous local and national awards. Pete resides in Bethesda, MD.