We turn great ideas into kick ass products!

With a passion for innovation and a preference for iPad, iPhone, and Android development, we help bright motivated entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground. We combine Silicon Valley roots with our near-shore development base in Guadalajara, Mexico, to offer product strategy, design, and development at surprisingly reasonable rates. Got a great idea and a shoestring budget? We want to hear from you at: bigidea@agavelab.com.

Snap a shot, add a caption, invite your friends to continue the story. Create a comic strip. Or a graphic novel. Or build your own strip around a recent event...

ShotStrip was built so that people could create stories with images. We're big fans of comic books - the way that a limited number of cels or frames are used to tell a full story. A great comic book artist can create an entire novel with only 6 frames. As a reader, you have to fill in the story between the frames. It's an act of imagination and creativity - we like that.

We wanted to take this dynamic and make it social - You start a story with a photo or image and then invite your friends to add the next chapter. The concept is fairly open-ended - we're not sure what the result will be or where these stories will lead but the ball is now in your court. Use your imagination and create something awesome.

TastemakerX,

a social game for Music.

Share your tastes. Discover music. Become a tastemaker.

TastemakerX is a fun, competitive way to discover new music and build a profile of personal tastes to influence others. Game features include social sharing, biographies of bands, news items and the ability to listen and purchase tracks from the iTunes store.

Applications for people who like to smile.

Puppytime and Kittytime are iPhone applications that are built around a really, really simple idea: That receiving an occasional photo of a cute puppy or kitty is a great way to inject a little happiness into your busy day.

You set your alerts and the tiny bark or meow lets you know that a photo of an adorable little pet is waiting to meet you on your iPhone.

Is that Puppytime or Kittytime in your pocket or are you just happy!

Share your rave reviews with the world.

ClientVoice is a social feedback platform that incentivizes businesses and their customers to do what comes naturally:

Solve problems in real time and talk honestly about what went well and what could be better.

TEDx es una organización no-lucrativa de ámbito local que busca la Expansión de Ideas Excepcionales (licenciado por TED.com).

El programa está diseñado para dar a las comunidades la oportunidad de estimular el diálogo a través de experiencias a nivel local. Los eventos TEDx son conversaciones en torno a un tema pero de carácter multidisciplinario, centrado en el poder de las ideas para cambiar actitudes, vidas y el mundo.

Para el 2013, TEDxGuadalajara será el lugar para intercambiar ideas novedosas en torno a la ciudad por lo que ha escogido el tema de "Inspira Ciudad". Compartiremos soluciones en energía, tecnología, cultura, movilidad, planificación urbana, medio ambiente, y gestión para desarrollar ciudades eficientes, sostenibles y creativas, iniciativas que desde diferentes ángulos contribuyen al mejoramiento de la calidad de vida de todos los tapatíos.

Our model

Some things you should know about us:

We function like a seed-stage venture capital firm except, rather than cash, we offer access to inexpensive development, design and product strategy resources.

We're passionate about Scrum and Agile processes.

We're interested in Mobile and Social media apps but more important than the space is the team that we're working with. We're looking for bright, motivated people who want to take risks and try new things. Does that sound like you?

To learn more about how we do things, check out our blog.

Where are we

Although we spend a fair amount of time in the SF Bay area, our design/development center is in Guadalajara, Mexico. This allows us to keep our overhead low so that we can, in turn, offer aggressive rates to our partners. By lowering the costs all around, we can afford to pursue more innovative ideas. To learn more about why we chose Guadalajara and the advantages of nearsourcing, check this out.