I recently wrote to California's 36th District Respresentative, Congresswoman Janice Hahn regarding my thought's on SOPA.  Her response below:

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We've been receiving quite a volume of calls and emails from some inquisitive entrepreneurs and companies.  For the most part the initial part of the conversation is centered around a single, almost universal, theme.

How much does it cost to build a mobile app?

I suppose the answer to this question depends on who you ask.  For ISBX, we generally start at around $20,000 for a single platform application. 

Why does it cost so much?

OTG, a restaurant management group is one upping their competition by doing something very cool – providing access to mobile applications at selected dining locations throughout JFK International Airport in New York.  The restaurant group provides Apple iPad’s that are semi-permanently affixed to each table, pre-loaded with a suite of useful apps, including, their very own branded app.

We’ve been getting a lot of calls lately from local businesses inquiring about mobile app development.  Not just because we rank on page 1 for almost all the local keywords (How did we do this?

We love mobile apps.  We really do, and not just because it helps put food on the table, but because we truly believe it is an expanding market with limitless potential.  We are known for iphone app development… We've developed resource apps for law firms, engineering calculator apps, ecard apps, survey apps, television show apps, apps that make fart sounds, apps for celebrities, apps for big box retail brands, apps as a business tool for enterprises, and even apps that allow you put funny hats on people.  And yet, with all the apps we’ve produced, we’re occasionally blown away by a couple of developers that manage to trump our efforts, with just a single app.

Our buddies at Branded Research hosted an iOS App Pitch Night at their offices in Santa Monica, in cooperation with Palo Alto based, Appbackr.  The evening was filled with a lot of enthusiastic mobile app developers, a dozen boxes of pizza, and beer on tap.

Pictured here: Eric Wise, ISBX; Rhett McNulty and Matt Gaffney, Branded Research; Matthew Gonzales, Appbackr

ISBX has designed the perfect Valentine's Day eCard app for the iPhone and an HD version for the iPad.   Apparently, Apple agrees with us, and has placed us within the "New and Noteworthy" section on the iTunes homepage. 

We recently received coverage on our angel funding round we closed late last year. Check it out!

http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/04/isbx-angel/

Android based Smartphone sales have recently undergone significant accelerated growth, despite the Google developed OS being over two years old, and according to a recent Nielsen study, for the first time ever, outpaced iPhone sales over a rolling six month period.

I found this video we put together in the early days when we were still working out of E’s garage.  In fact the second half of the video is filmed in the same place we used to do our meetings.   We used it to pitch to a few seeders including Y-Combinator, but it never really got much air time.