This is a story of a company that was built in a living room and went on to become a cultural phenomenon. I asked JamesHong to come to Mixergy and teach how he and his co-founder, Jim Young, bootstrapped HOTorNOT and what they learned along the way.
... SmartTrust certified status. "SmartTrust Wib is found on SIM cards around the world," said Mr. JamesHong, CTO, Infotrust. "Joining the SmartTrust Certified program will allow us to have our implementations thoroughly tested, giving our customers the assurance that our cards will be fully interoperable with their SmartTrust Wib-based applications deployed today and in the future."...
Back when Facebook first announced its applications platform in June 2007, a reporter asked Hot Or Not cofounder JamesHong why he wasn't attending the All Things D conference that year. "I'm too busy working on Facebook apps," answered Hong. "It's the new Internet." A year later, that kind of hype looked silly in retrospect. Facebook had begun cloning popular...