PR for People Monthly November 2013 The Entrepreneurial Mindset | Page 26
Brent Brookler, CEO/Founder of Flowboard
is the quintessential entrepreneur in all things mobile. Product-driven and technology focused, Brent is
passionate about startup culture and has been in the
mobile space for over a decade. In 2000, he started
Mobliss, a mobile game developer that powered the
American Idol text voting program, and built early
mobile games of Family Feud, NY Times Crossword
and many others. Mobliss was sold to Index Corporation, a Japanese mobile content company, in 2004.
In 2005, Brent Brookler started Treemo Labs,
which builds social media communities by empowering individuals and organizations to creatively express themselves through multimedia. Treemo Labs
technology is used in everything from small personal
blogs to large media brands as a simple way to create, store and distribute fun and exciting content.
Brookler and his team developed and managed 60
Minutes, CBS News, CNET and several other prominent brands apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android
devices.
Brent Brookler’s latest brainchild is Flowboard, an app for next-generation presentation and
storytelling. In his own words, Brookler describes
Flowboard as a tool that is “saving people from
death by PowerPoint.” Flowboard is a visually stunning platform for publishing that grabs interactive
media links, websites, blogs, photos, videos, anything needed to create presentations with compelling
imagery and messaging. Flowboard is the ultimate
app experience especially when being used it from
an iPad. There is a free version and a premium
version for $5 a month. Check it out for creating
thenext presentation. Flowboard is where the beauty
and power of visual story telling speaks for itself
(www.flowboard.com)
Brent Brookler’s entrepreneurial mindset
itself is a thing of wonder. Brookler says he looks at
all systems to see how they can be changed, impro-
vised or updated, to find opportunities and ways to
do things better and more efficiently. He poses the
question: How will you make things quicker, easier
and better than they’ve been done before? “You have
to take risks to create and to stay out in front of the
market,” he said. Combing creative risk-taking with
hard work and dedication can move mountains.