A HUGE congratulations to my brother Sam Odio [http://bluwiki.com/go/Sam_Odio], who just yesterday sold his startup, Divvyshot, to Facebook. Sam has been working hard on Divvyshot for the past 2 years. He was initially funded by Paul Graham's Y Combinator fund (a micro-fund approach

A few weeks ago I taught a class on blogging and Twitter along with Emmett Murphy of 3 Click Media [http://www.3clickmedia.com/]. The video of that event is below. Note: The video is about 2 hours long and may take about 30 seconds to load.

Another excellent event by Julie Perlmutter's Web Manager's Roundtable [https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1776650&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr].  Here are the event details; video is below: CMS authority Tony Byrne [https://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?1K%2cM3%2c33e43a44-f0fc-447a-a03a-4c08acd57c14], President of the Real

Ed Moran, a partner with Deloitte in New York City, recently came to DC to provide the results of Deloitte's annual market predictions survey. His 75 minute presentation is packed with data that you won't be able to find anywhere else, as this information is not

Here's a quick step by step guide showing how I make video blogs and screencasts, and the tools I use to share them. My main tools are: 1. PhotoBooth to record video, comes standard on any Mac 2. iShowU by ShinyWhiteBox [http://www.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html]

I recently presented at a mobile panel and got a nice email from a woman after the event: "Hi Daniel, I really enjoyed meeting you this morning at Mobile Outlook 2010. As you may recall, I'm just finishing my MBA in Marketing at [XXXXX]. I've

The Potomac Tech Wire held its annual Venture Capital Outlook event on December 16, 2009 at the Ritz Carlton in McLean, VA.  Here's more information on the event, and a video is below: Venture Capital Outlook 2010 is part of the Potomac Tech Wire breakfast series that brings

Something hit me today like a ton of bricks. Something that's so damn obvious I can't believe I never encapsulated it into a single coherent thought before. The secret to being a successful entrepreneur is... trading up. Yep, that's right, trading up. Trading up,

I'm at FailCon 2010.  Listening to Jay Adelson [http://www.twitter.com/jayadelson] of Digg & Revision3 talk about lessons learned in "Fireside Chat". Some key learning points: Digg got 2 offers, from Google and Current, plus some verbals from companies like Fox.  However, he says

I'm banging some work out at a cool new coffee shop called The Summit [https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-summit-san-francisco-2], which is co-located in a space run by i/o Ventures [http://ventures.io/].Here's a story [http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/06/io-ventures-incubator-san-francisco/] about i/

Bookmark this URL to visit the page: http://go.AppMakr.com/competitive-intel [http://go.appmakr.com/competitive-intel]. And if you just want AppMakr news only, you can bookmark this page too: http://go.AppMakr.com/alerts [http://go.appmakr.com/alerts]. As a founder of a kickass mobile app platform,

Although I usually write about the intersection of entrepreneurism and technology, sometimes I'll throw in other types of posts, especially if they're indirectly related. And this one is.  After I turned 30, my body stopped cooperating with me.  When I was younger, I could eat anything

I wrote a blog about Project Stargate [http://go.danielodio.com/stargate], as well as SimpleGeo's implementation of it [http://www.danielodio.com/2010/10/15/project-stargate-update-simplegeos-implementation/] . The hardware has arrived in both SF and DC and it's LIVE! It's working really well. Like,

This is the first of a multi-part blog post I'll be writing over the next week that will chronicle my experience raising a $1MM round for AppMakr [http://www.appmakr.com/]. I'll be sharing my learning and experiences as a first-time fundraiser out here in the

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 [https://twitter.com/bfrench], and he did a great job outlining the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. You can also find

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

I have a hiring process I've been using for years (you can find a related blog post here [http://www.danielodio.com/2006/08/14/hire-people-effectively-patent-pending/]) that I'd like to share, as it's very effective. You can see a screencast video below describing the

Alson Kemp from the MIT club of Northern California [http://www.mitcnc.org/] invited me to record their event last night at Kicklabs in SoMa: The State of Mobile Monetization [http://www.mitcnc.org/thestateofmobilemonetization]. (As an interesting aside - the first time I showed up to capture content, the

Yesterday Ning announced "Ning Everywhere" an initiative utilizing Ning's new API, which allows Ning communities to be accessed from partner sites. Our company, AppMakr, was the "Do It Yourself" way Ning chose for community owners to turn their Ning communities into iPhone apps. We&

UPDATES:Stargate is Live! [http://www.danielodio.com/2010/10/22/project-stargate-is-live/] | Also, see SimpleGeo's Implementation [http://www.danielodio.com/2010/10/15/project-stargate-update-simplegeos-implementation/] We recently expanded PointAbout from its office in Washington DC [http://www.1410q.com/], opening a new office for AppMakr [http://go.danielodio.com/

Earlier this week I wrote a post about "Project Stargate [http://go.danielodio.com/stargate]" - our attempt at an "always on" telepresence solution between our DC & SF offices. Justin Thorpe of Clearspring suggested I contact Rob Bailey at SimpleGeo after reading my post, because

Brothers Daniel and Sam Odio say D.C. doesn't sate entrepreneurial needs Herndon natives Daniel and Sam Odio share a last name, two alma maters and a gene for entrepreneurial risk-taking. Each brother has created a well-known, successful tech startup , mobile app builder PointAbout Inc. for Daniel, picture-sharing

I recently attended GigaOM's Mobilize 2010 conference in San Francisco, where many speakers pontificated on the current and future impact of mobile.  The event was good and fast-paced, although I wished some of the panels could've gotten more in-depth.  Kudos to my friend Teck Chia [https: