Comments on: Kleiner Perkins Announces $100 million iFund for iPhone Applications

By: finette.co.uk » blog » Where is the Funding for (Consumer) Open Source?

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:35:29 +0000

[...] on top of publicly available financing sources and similar to the funds being setup for Facebook or iPhone apps) which gives out grants to open source projects to help them break into consumer [...]

By: Notes for 3/9/2008 at MasterMaq’s Blog

Notes for 3/9/2008 at MasterMaq’s Blog — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:18:55 +0000

[...] excited for Exchange support! They also released the long-anticipated SDK. Oh and Kleiner Perkins announced a $100 million fund for iPhone applications. That’s ten times bigger than a similar fund for Facebook [...]

By: As iPhone Second Coming Approaches, Pelago Adds To Its War Chest

As iPhone Second Coming Approaches, Pelago Adds To Its War Chest — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:02:13 +0000

[...] rude archenemy, Apple, which has much greater appeal to the consumer market. When Kleiner Perkins launched its so-called “iFund” for the financing of iPhone apps in March, the venture capital [...]

By: The iFund Has Competition: $150 Million Blackberry Fund To Be Announced Soon

The iFund Has Competition: $150 Million Blackberry Fund To Be Announced Soon — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:06:23 +0000

[...] announced a $10 million Android challenge back in November, and Kleiner Perkins announced its $100 million iFund for iPhone-only startups in March. Now, it looks like Research in Motion is about to announce its [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » La guerre des plateformes mobiles: après l’iFund et Android, Blackberry lance son propre fonds de $150 millions

Sun, 11 May 2008 04:24:34 +0000

[...] Android à $10 millions en novembre; Kleiner Perkins avait annoncé le lancement de Ifund, un fonds de $100 millions pour des startups autour de l’iPhone. Voici maintenant que Reseach in Motion annonce la [...]

By: The Mobile Industry Wants You! (to tell them what you want in a cell phone) | last100

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:44:58 +0000

[...] available for third-party application development in June. Additionally, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has formed the $100 million iFund for the development of iPhone [...]

By: Robbie

Robbie — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:51:39 +0000

i cant understand why apple does not invest the money themselves seeing as they have $18 billion in cash.

By: Entrepreneur 27 Singapore: Web 2.0 Unconferences, Sites & Cool Tech » Blog Archive » Kleiner Perkins jumpstarts iPhone Apps industry with $100m Fund

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:10:41 +0000

[...] Read more about this article. Which brings us to this question, who is interested in doing iPhone Apps in Singapore? If you are, drop us a note! [...]

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:07:58 +0000

Love the proliferation of these platform specific funds. It’s an exciting time to be a developer and entrepreneur.

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By: sponti

sponti — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:49:11 +0000

@Marc
Instead of iPhone’s 70% margin you get in “emerging markets” probably about 0%, as it will be pirated (if your apps are worth it, of course).

I remember when a reader in the newspaper “Bangkok Post” desperately asked where he could purchase a legal version of MS Word, as all the shops just had pirated software.

Concerning “Apple is going to dig its own grave”, please visit:
http://www.macobserver.com/appledeathknell/

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:00:27 +0000

Well, Apple is going to dig its own grave.
At least this version and license is imho not going to be of success. I was realy awaiting the SDK but when I read that apple whats 30% margin…FORGET IT. Then I am going to develop apps for the gPhone!

By the way..the gPhone, I should say Android since it is just an OS, will be available on millions of phone in the future (the iPhone, as a expensive gadget for people with to much money, probably wont). And do you want to know why: because Android is for free and because of this it will be build into mobiles/pdas in emerging markets (I think I don’t have to name India or China). Wiriting a cheap app for these markets, but sell it millions of times….

By: David

David — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:39:06 +0000

Only developers who have traditional training, who can do pointer arithmetic, memory allocations, etc will be able to write great apps for the iPhone. All those web 2.0 types who can only do PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc will not be able to participate and that is a good thing. Thank god!

By: sunnysmile

sunnysmile — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:18:21 +0000

He did his time. He is so young and talent. My friends on mixedfriends dotcom love him very much. It is a niche interracial dating service

By: jbelkin

jbelkin — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:04:21 +0000

All interesting and good - can’t understand why anyone wants Flash ads on the iPhone - what’s the point? It’s the animated gifs of 2008 - pretty pointless and just a toy now.

By: JosefVirek

JosefVirek — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:18:18 +0000

what will be the revenue model for these startups? and pls. no ads on my lovely, sexy gorgeous iphone.

By: 113.com

113.com — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:17:10 +0000

Nice.

By: Davide Di Cillo

Davide Di Cillo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:05:56 +0000

@John Atkinson
Trust me, I network, but everybody I know with the talent to realize my ideas are all of course superbusy… maybe i should just publish them on my blog and if somebody want to pick them up can put me in the credits

By: Dean Terry

Dean Terry — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:48:03 +0000

Hopefully we’ll see people taking advantage of location information, using the camera in interesting ways (games for example), and other apps that are better for being mobile and connected.

There’s so much creative energy that has been pent up waiting to be released. What the carriers and others have just not understood is that the more control the big players give up, the more $ they will make. Let’s go to it folks.

By: eric

eric — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:30:42 +0000

dude….i think Matt Murphy is my neighbor … cool .. congrats to him …

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:33:49 +0000

“Nice to see KP making the transition from VC fund to hip non-profit.”

heh.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:24:53 +0000

Nice to see KP making the transition from VC fund to hip non-profit.

A social network restricted to a niche platform - cool. As discussed on these pages it has become just too easy for social networks to make money.

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:51:34 +0000

Since when is accelerometer in a phone a unique feature?? Sony Ericsson has public JSRs that enables any java application to use the accelerometer in their phones. There is already games out there that uses this feature. One example is EA Sports Need For Speed which you can run on Sony Ericsson phones..

By: Alaska Miller

Alaska Miller — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:46:19 +0000

This isn’t the first time KPCB’s pulled off a publicity stunt like this. They wrangled together 100 million for the Java Fund back in the mid 90’s. That sputtered for a bit then disappeared.

By: Joel Smith

Joel Smith — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:45:46 +0000

“defacto mobile web access”?? hahaha are you crazy or just Apple drunk? Jobs announced there will be on flash on iPhone and now most Nokias will support flash and silverlight. I think thats why they have the market share they do. That and they are not closed down to at&t networks