You're a techie. You write brilliant code and have amazing ideas. I bet you think that's enough to start a tech company. It's not. But good news: it's probably easier for you to learn business than for the businessfolk to learn your l33t skillz. (Most of getting a real MBA is getting drunk, anyhow.) David will share share how he wrapped his brain around business. Hint: it's not too scary and mainly involves making sure that you are actually solving real problems.
David Weekly David Weekly is the founder of PBWorks, Hacker Dojo and Mexican VC. He's a mentor for the Founder Institute, Peter Thiel's 20 under 20 program, 500 Startups and i/o Ventures. He graduated Stanford University with a BS in Computer Science and was a President Scholar and an ACM World Finalist. For fun, he pilots choppers.
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SMS integration into the Zaarly offer workflow has been critical to maximizing the experience between two parties and helping facilitate transactions, and Twilio has been the cornerstone behind our own Voice and SMS features. We'll talk more about this ubiquitous and often overlooked feature of our mobile application and how it was implemented in a single evening.
Learn how Epicom built a full subaccount management system for our Twilio product. We'll first take you through a demo of the sign-up process from our public-facing website. After signing-up, an account is automatically created in our SugarCRM system and in our Twilio account. The system then preauthorizes payment with Amazon Flexible Payments Service, and verifies a phone number for use. We will also demo the system's detailed tracking, subscription management, and customer portal. Come see how to make your Twilio product or application completely self-sustaining with a backend billing system..
Learn how Twilio has opened the door for CRM products and apps. By integrating Twilio and building products such as click-to-call, screen-pops, web chats, and call center systems, the usability and the value of CRM is increased. At Epicom, we don't view CRM as just a system, but instead we see it as the centerpiece of an entire ecosystem of web-based applications. Because Twilio's API is easy to work with, robust, and scalable, we are able to build CRM products that directly impact a business.
Twilio is designed to notify your application in realtime about the status of calls in progress. In this session we'll explore how Twilio interacts with your system during and after a call. We'll take a deep dive into the lifecycle of a voice call and SMS message. You will understand the timing of in-call TwiML requests, StatusCallback and Fallback URL requests as well as learn best practices for storing Twilio call information in your own database. This session will help you optimize your Twilio integration and avoid unnecessary requests to the Twilio API.
Panel discussion with community managers of leading developer products companies. Interactive discussion with audience members on how companies and community managers can make developers successful, best practices, lessons learned and hardships along the road, the future of community management and more.
Heather, Vice President of Marketing at Trulia, explains how Trulia grew and expanded their reach and customer experience with voice & SMS.
