Three years ago….

That’s right. Three years ago nobody knew who the hell we were. I would tell people I had started my company and it was a mobile company and nobody had a clue as to what I was working on, let alone understand the market the way Walter (my co-founder) and I did.

We started the company in mid 2008. We started the tireless and sleepless nights of VC funding in 2009. And Finally on 09/09/09 we got funded at the tune of  $1 million dollars.

That was in 2009. During most of 2010, again, nobody knew who we were. We had a shit of a website, hardly any apps, no traffic whatsoever, no active developer community, and we were burning cash just like a normal startup so the future never seen brighter.

Then in 2011 things turned around, thanks to 14-year old Robert Nay, from NayGames, who wrote Bubble Ball. The mainstream media picked the news of a 14-year-oldtumbling Angry Birds (seasons) off its number one perch on the iTunes AppStore and suddenly, not only was he on the spotlight, thanks to a Good Morning America Segment, we were on the spotlight too. We were the technology that was used to topple the fowl juggernaut and used by a precocious 14-year-old with hardly any formal gaming and programming background.

Then the rest like they say, its history. We had another Corona SDK app, Blast Monkeys, by Yobonja, hit the number one spot on the Android Market during the summer, and the Amazon Appstore has featured several Corona SDK apps on their store.

Yet today, I have received numerous e-mails and tweets from non-Corona developers as to how I feel as Adobe Flash finally catches up to us. Really? Seriously? Three years ago nobody knew Ansca and our Corona SDK framework and today, I am receiving flak by Flash developers telling me that we are doomed and that Flash is far superior to Corona SDK and that I must be shitting in my pants as one twit mildly put it.

So, let me get this straight, Adobe being a $3 billion dollar company, with a team of about 200 developers for their Flash/AIR product finally catches up to us? And I should be shitting in my pants?

I think it is the other way around. I like to think of it as a bunch of rebels, pirates, good for nothing bunch of mavericks, running a puny startup funded to what would amount to be what Adobe spends in toilet paper in a day has given the Adobe Flash team a run for its money.

And I got news for you, if you think that I am afraid of Adobe. Hell, I used to work there, and the one thing I know is that we will out perform, outwit, out shine and outdo them anytime, anywhere, anyplace.  Aside from having a weak CEO, Adobe’s other big flaw is corporate bureaucracy also known as corporate bullshit. And here at Ansca, we have none of that, and the only proof that needs to be highlighted is the fact that it was our developers who nominated us to the Dow Jones/Venture Wire FastTech 50.

And our commitment is to our developers, that’s our number one priority, to give them the best tool for the job. No Bullshit.

We are a fifteen people startup, and we gotten noticed by some of the most discerning Flash users, and made it into the Adobe Compete email alias. Hell yeah. Bring it.

So three years ago….

Carlos.