Comments on: 10 Tips for Startups to Partner with Sprint http://gigaom.com/2006/10/26/reddick/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Greg Clayman http://gigaom.com/2006/10/26/reddick/#comment-126754 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:22:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/reddick/#comment-126754 When I had a mobile start-up Sprint was one of the first major carriers to be willing to work with us. It’s nice to see them still taking chances w/ small companies in the space.

Btw I can’t stress #5 enough – the same holds true when pitching a media company. I cannot tell you how many times people have come in to pitch me products and services my company already has (or had) in the market.

Kudos to Paul for proffering some sound advice.

]]> By: SupaIsReady http://gigaom.com/2006/10/26/reddick/#comment-126753 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:52:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/reddick/#comment-126753 Katie – great article. This is what us startup crowd needs more of (esp the mobile arena). Keep feeding us this stuff. ;)

]]> By: Mike B http://gigaom.com/2006/10/26/reddick/#comment-126752 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:21:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/reddick/#comment-126752 Sounds good. Reality is different. Are they really trying to encourage mobile apps and useage. We tried to register a shortcode so if a Sprint sub asked for an app, we could send Sprint subs SMS message with a WAP link to download the mobile application.

Answer from Sprint: ‘we don’t want to give content away’.. hence they are rejected our application for a shortcode for off deck download.

So, doesn’t seem like to us off deck is practical…

]]> By: Peter Cranstone http://gigaom.com/2006/10/26/reddick/#comment-126751 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:34:54 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/reddick/#comment-126751 Katie, great post. We’ve got some intersting location based capability for mobile on our web site (www.5o9inc.com) – So how do get to Mr. Reddick? :)

]]> By: km4 http://gigaom.com/2006/10/26/reddick/#comment-126750 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:10:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/reddick/#comment-126750 Katie, nice post with useful info. Our software startup nails 5 or 6 of these but we’re still a niche application so have to be clever to find a way into the Sprint deck…perhaps using a holodeck ;)

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