Mok goes to Xconomy's Forum on Mobile Innovation

This post was written by Mok Oh, CTO and founder of EveryScape.

Xconomy had their Forum on the Future of Mobile Innovation in New England yesterday, organized by Wade Roush (Wade rocks!). As usual (to how Xconomy rolls), it was a very well run event with relevant mobile players in the New England area. Most speakers represented smaller companies, which to me meant that there’s still lots to be figured out – these are entrepreneurs and innovators, both technically and biz-dev-wise, treading through the unknown and ever-changing territory of the mobile frontier. These are innovators who are going where no person has gone before (start music, play clip with starships flying around in space). There were interesting and noteworthy tweets (oh BTW, Twitter rocks!).

I particularly enjoyed Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge, where he moderated “The Changing Business of Mobile” roundtable. For example, one of the audience members asked him about the VC perspective of the mobile industry, and he deflected and put the focus back on the folks in the roundtable, saying that they were the innovators , and as a VC he follows them (something along that line). Very wise he is.

In general, most of the talk (from my perspective) was around Apple, iPhone, and the App Store, and how they really changed the dynamics of the mobile industry. But even with rising interest, companies who base their strategy purely on mobile products have a hard time growing (or getting big) in a B2C sense. Mo money on the mobile enterprise side of things.