Roy Glasberg, Global Lead, Launchpad Program & Accelerator
After two successful classes, we're excited to announce the next group of promising startups for the third class of Launchpad Accelerator. The startups from Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Mexico will be joined by developers from five additional countries: Argentina, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
The program includes intensive mentoring from Google engineers, product managers and other expert mentors from top technology companies and VCs in Silicon Valley. Participants receive equity-free support, credits for Google products, PR support and work closely with Google for six months in their home country.
Class 3 kicks off early next year (January 30) at Launchpad Space, our physical space in San Francisco where developers and startups can get free technical training, one-on-one mentoring and more education geared towards helping them successfully build their apps & startups.
Here's the full list of participating startups (by country):
If you're interested in applying for future Launchpad Accelerator cohorts, we encourage you to follow us on the Launchpad Accelerator site to receive updates. We also expect to add more countries to the program in the future. Stay tuned!
Good morning! Only one minute to go until Darin Fisher, VP of Chrome kick's off this year's keynote at Chrome Dev Summit 2016. Join us as we take a look at the latest web advancements with over 20 sessions presented by Chrome engineers. We're live streaming all sessions and posting videos throughout the next two days.
Posted by Paul Kinlan, Chrome Developer Relations
Chrome Dev Summit is almost here! We'll kick off live from San Francisco at the SFJAZZ Center, at 10:00 AM PT this coming Thursday, Nov 10th. This year's summit will focus on key themes that matter to you: Progressive, to build high quality web apps; Performance, to increase user engagement; and What's Next, a look at how the Chrome team is thinking about the future of the web.
While we're putting the finishing touches on the keynote, sessions, and code labs, we wanted to provide you with some tips to get ready to experience Chrome Dev Summit, either in-person or via the livestream.
Navigate the summit with notifications
To get the most out of Chrome Dev Summit, make sure to check out the schedule and set up notifications for the sessions you don't want to miss. These will help you plan your schedule whether you're in person or tuning in via the livestream.
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We're looking forward to having you with us you for 2 days of web fun, soon!
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Roy Glasberg, Global Lead, Launchpad and Launchpad Accelerator
Last month, the second cohort of Launchpad Accelerator, Google’s high-touch global program for late-stage startups, came and conquered their app challenges with the help of mentors at Google HQ.
What did they learn that they’d like to share with developers across the world? Check out the video below for solutions from 3 different startups, and an in-depth review of MagicPin’s mobile web challenge and solution.
Startup:
MagicPin from India is a social network app that curates a local user base around locations, allowing merchants to connect with these specific audiences.
Mobile web challenge:
In India, downloading an app requires a high commitment. On average a user would keep 5 or 6 apps on their phone. According to Anshoo Sharma, Co-Founder and CEO, MagicPin, “If you want to be the next app that they download, there is a high barrier.”
Jordan Adler, Google Developer Advocate: “Devices in markets like India have limited space--on average 128 MB of memory--and when you add in system features only 40 bytes of user space is left. And if a typical APK is a few megabytes, you can only have a few apps before you have to stop downloading.”
Solution:
Jordan Adler: “One of the great things about Progressive Web Apps is you don’t have to request the commitment (to download an app) upfront. You can start to build a relationship with the user through the web interface, and over time the web app can become more like a native app, it can be housed on a device, cache content and work offline.”
Anshoo Sharma: “In the last 1.5 weeks we have been here we have already launched a micro version of our platform on Progressive Web Apps. And the experience is great! Without using the (mobile) app people can get as good an experience.”
About Launchpad Accelerator
Launchpad Accelerator is a six-month accelerator that enables late-stage app startups from emerging markets to successfully scale. Here's a two-minute video about the Accelerator.
Posted by Taylor Savage, Product Manager
We’re excited to announce that the full speaker list and talk schedule has been released for the first ever Polymer Summit! Find the latest details on our newly launched site here. Look forward to talks about topics like building full apps with Polymer, Polymer and ES6, adaptive UI with Material Design, and performance patterns in Polymer.
The Polymer Summit will start on Monday, September 14th with an evening of Code Labs, followed by a full day of talks on Tuesday, September 15th. All of this will be happening at the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, right on the IJ river in downtown Amsterdam. All tickets to the summit were claimed on the first day, but you can sign up for the waitlist to be notified, should any more tickets become available.
Can’t make it to the summit? Sign up here if you’d like to receive updates on the livestream and tune in live on September 15th on polymer-project.org/summit. We’ll also be publishing all of the talks as videos on the Google Developers YouTube Channel.
