Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Miko Matsumura, Senior Vice President, Developer Relations, Kii Corporation (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How do you find entrepreneurs to develop applications on your platform? How does the platform market itself? Miko Matsumura: We are working that out as we go. We are in beta at the moment. SM: And you are doing $20 million already, while still being in beta?

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Miko Matsumura, Senior Vice President, Developer Relations, Kii Corporation (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: This exit that you are talking about in Japan, a $25 million to $30 million revenue company, what kind of market gap do you see for this? Miko Matsumura: The market gap range is $100 million. SM: And what is the range of the multiples you can get on something like this in

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Miko Matsumura, Senior Vice President, Developer Relations, Kii Corporation (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s look at the iOS app store, for instance. I recently read an article that said that the top 25 apps make most of their revenues. Those include companies like Electronic Arts. A lot of them are games. Games seem to be dominating the monetization category. What is your observation about that very

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Miko Matsumura, Senior Vice President, Developer Relations, Kii Corporation (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Series A can be five million dollars, a million dollars, half a million dollars, and so on. Miko Matsumura: We have done stuff in the half million dollar range. That tends to be very suitable for one- to two-person jobs. We certainly have the capacity to go bigger, but we are just looking

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Miko Matsumura, Senior Vice President, Developer Relations, Kii Corporation (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Could you give me an example of the types of applications that really take advantage of your technology? Miko Matsumura: It is a very diverse lot. We have a couple of different applications. One is called Astro File Manager. It is a utility-type application for use on Android. This is another one of

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Miko Matsumura, Senior Vice President, Developer Relations, Kii Corporation (Part 1)

Miko Matsumura is the senior vice president of developer relations at Kii Corporation. He studied at San Francisco State University. In this interview, Miko talks about how Kii Corporation helps entrepreneurs develop mobile apps and introduces us to an interesting and innovative business model that bears new and exciting possibilities for mobile app creators. Sramana

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