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Here are the 3 things I learned from Derik... The pleasure of working on your own app startup comes from the effort you put in Starting an app is all about asking What Is The Problem, Who Is It Solving For, Can You Speak To These People?  Core metrics to focus on are revenue, retention rate for 1,3,7 days and conversion to paid subscriptions 

Heini Zachariassen, CEO & Founder at Vivino talks through his journey from taking an app idea and touching 26 million people and selling $40 million worth of wine

Rachel Cook, Founder/CEO at Seeds, talks about hr journey into stock trading, comedy, film directing and the inception of her idea during a night in a Kenyan jail.

Anthemos Georgiades CEO at Zumper talks about his courage leaving a well respected early career in consulting because his idea was passionately burning a hole in his soul Resources: Website / Twitter / Linkedin Here are the 3 things I learned from Anthemos...Often the biggest challenge is to remain focussed when running your startupThe first $1 million is often harder to raise then the next $38 millionEarly fund raising is best served by having a single story and focussing on one metric Read Full Interview

Listen to feedback to understand the real problems of your users  Doing a startup is not something you do because you think you're going to be successful and the next billionaire like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. If you're leaving a large company to do something on your own, it's got to be such a burning passion within you that you absolutely have to do it It's harder to self-promote when you're asking for help or you're asking a question. A founder has to rely on the kindness of strangers for introductions. In order to get these, you need to be willing to help others first

Sandeep Jain, CEO and co-Founder of Leela Labs Inc. We talk through how listening to inspiring content from podcasts can make a dramatic change in your life.

Here are the 3 things I learned from Lennart... Customers are always better than equity funding. Customers provide a good way of validating an idea A good PR strategy is to get a booth at Mobile World Congress, get access to the press list, schedule interviews with limited time slots and have newsworthy press releases on several topics every few weeks to follow-up Getting very specific about your metrics is essential. e.g. something like we know 10% of an email list will engage and pledge, so what size list do we need to reach our funding goal on IndieGoGo?

Here are the 3 things I learned from Kay... Get quotes (with keyword data) from several SEO firms to help validate your idea Spend a majority of your time interviewing potential users before touching a line of code Create a 'toothpaste' type app. In othe

Alexis Donier : Founder, Architectural Designer living in Ubud, Bali

Soren Nielsen, Founder & CEO at ERNIT . His mission is to empower children with real bank accounts and help them understand the value of money. Have you ever heard of the term wine entrepreneurs? No - then listen to this episode.

Alicia Roisman Ismach, Serial Fintech Entrepreneur - Focus on Payment & Banking Technology. Alicia left Argentina at the age of 16 years old. She dreamt of changing the world. Listen to her story of how she is living up to her dream.

Here are the 3 things I learned from Vadim Rogovskiy, CEO of Clickky Start with a low cost side project or hobby to avoid early financial risk You'll know when it's time to quit your day job. In Vadim's case, it was when his side project was earning $10,000 per month Starting your own startup means you'll be the leader of your own life

527 Nathan Raffel - Start Your Startup Focussing On A Personal Problem

We talk about Bali, entrepreneurs living adventurous lives, quitting a corporate job and much more...

Here are the 3 things I learned from Zahi... Starting a startup is HARD. Expect the journey to last 5 to 10 years Start with a problem, build a prototype, get paying customers - only then seek funding Understand the users journey through your app. Zahi discovered 70% of his users were not sharing their location when first asked, hence engagement was very low

Notes from recording an episode of The Eventual Millionaire with Jamie Masters [Tardy] this week.

Adam Barker CEO & Co-Founder at MagnaPass. We talk about raising funds for an early stage startup, real life examples of going through a pre-seed Angel syndicate, aiming for a raise of £300,000 and tips for pitching to groups of investors. Listen out for the entertaining story of sleeping in the car during a snow storm to pitch to investors in the morning.

Here are 3 things I learned from creating this best of show: Focus on your strengths, find the vehicle to share your gifts with the world and have a clear sense of the people you want to serve Solve a real world problem, ensure enough people also think it's a problem, confirm people will pay for your solution before investing the time and money to build your solution Build an audience, listen to want they want then deliver a minimum viable product to test, validate and gain valuable feedback. Follow your data and pivot if necessary

Alex Quilici, the CEO of YouMail. YouMail is an intelligent call manager that stops robocalls with its highly accurate caller ID and smart blocking technology. They’ve developed a monthly robocall index that tracks the scale and scope of invasive robocalls nationwide that has been frequently cited in national media. YouMail was recently called a superior alternative to iOS 10’s Visual Voicemail and Google Voice in a PCMag software review.

David Kingsbury is a personal trainer working with A-List actors on films such as Assassins Creed, The Huntsman, The wolverine, X-Men Days Of Future Past and more.  Our mutual friend, Andreas Kambanis introduced us after learning that HEALTH is my theme for 2017. This introduction changed my life forever. I am the healthiest and the fittest I can remember being. I hope this episode inspires you to take all necessary steps toward your healthier future.

Dave Schools is fun employed. He moves to a different city every 3 months

Josiah Humphrey Co-Founder and co-CEO at Appster started at the young age of 19. He's taken $3,000 and turned it into a global company with over 350 employees. Learn how Josiah built a sustainable business and pick up some genuine tips to succeed yourself. Resources: Website / Twitter / Linkedin Here are the 3 things I learned from Josiah...Your product is the marketing, so make an awesome appFind a core problemSeek feedback, validate by being smart, build a prototype and talk to clients Read Full Transcript

Rob Caraway is an appreneur who makes apps that sell. He's an indie app developer, growth hacker, entrepreneur & product guy who's worked on over 20 app projects since 2011. Rob has built and sold an app portfolio of 725,000 downloads which has netted him over $240,000 in only 2 years. We can all learn something from Rob's app journey.

David James, Founder of https://TotalCarCheck.co.uk quit his career in Investment banking to build a #2 top grossing app in the utilities section of the iOS app charts. We talk about how David made technology choices, how he engages users, how he optimises for conversions and the psychology of persuading someone to buy an inApp purchase.

Louise Doherty CEO & founder - PlanSnap talks about how to give a great elevator pitch, what it's like working for an accelerator like Techstars and how to cope in the startup world working for yourself as an app solopreneur.

Jo Overline created the controversial app called Ugly Mug. It propelled him into app stardom where everyone on the planet seemed to be downloading the app. It reached #1 instantly. However, it wasn't all plain sailing because the main stream media made up fake news about Ugly Mug to stir up the controversy. 

Andrew Levy, Co-Founder & CSO and Rob Kwok, Co-Founder and CTO at Apteligent.

Prabhjot Singh Co-Founder and President Of Pyze. Prabhjot helps mobile app publishers solve their biggest challenge - engaging and retaining users.

It really is possible to start a tech product without a technical co-founder. Listen to an in-depth chat about starting a tech startup as a non-technical founder

Christian Rouffaert is a Digital Entrepreneur, London, working in Information Technology and Services. Discover a viable alternative to putting rubbish ads in your beautiful apps. Get paid to provide valuable data to the large telco companies. It's GENIUS and a must listen to episode for all small teams of developers or solo Appreneurs.

Alex Austin CEO/Software engineer at Branch Metrics. Alex takes us through his journey. It starts from building lots of apps and desperately seeking downloads, such as a photo printing app, and ends in building an internal product to cope with deep linking challenges which ultimately has led to the extremely successful Branch.

Benjamin Yee, Founder of EMERGE App has followed a different path, but one which I think is truly inspirational. If only I heard stories like this before leaving for University and then the usual corporate city life. Ben has never worked in a corporate or been to university, yet he's a successful startup app founder.

An app that is changing the way we give money. Listen to what it's like to have an appreneur life filled with a purpose to help change the world for the better.

Ted Fifelski Founder of Gane.io talks about overcoming the burden of red tape in the Fin Tech space

Martijn de Kuijper Founder of Revue talks to us about his rocket fuelled Product Hunt launch which attracted over 1,100 upvotes on Product Hunt. Martijn shares with us his story of the ups and downs of being a maker.

Chris Savage Founder and CEO of the video marketing platform Wistia. Chris inspires us about his dream come true: having the opportunity to work alongside his friend from University to build a company.

Dmitry Dragilev., founder of JustReachOut.io Dmitry single handedly grew a startup from 0 to 40M+ pageviews through PR and got acquired by Google a few years back. He has published 1300+ articles in press and has written guest articles for most major tech publications. He currently runs a PR SaaS called JustReachOut and PR coaching course PRThatConverts currently used by 3500+ entrepreneurs and startups to find and pitch journalists without the help of PR firms.

James Eder Founder & Chief Collision Creator @ Causr.co . James recently launched his app startup, but he already has a user who has generated over $500,000 in business as a result of using his app CAUSR. James is seeking a tech co-founder. Can you help?

Vivek Chugh, Founder of Listables walks us through his appreneur journey. Leaving a successful career at Zynga, Vivek devotes himself to his app idea. Listables is a collaborative checklist app built on the back of community. Learn from this inspiring entrepreneur as he talks us through the ups and downs over his 18 month app startup.

Jaan Tallinn : Skype Co-Founder talks about artificial intelligence being our biggest existential threat to a humans as a species.

Paul Kemp , the host of The App Guy Podcast answering your questions on app funding, finding beta testers, doing app launches and more

Victor Ricci : The College Student With A 250 Million Follower Reach

In this episode we talk about the Green Rush, brand protection, patents

Shem Magnezi Lead Android Developer @ MyRoll (Acquired by AVG Technologies). His Medium post went viral. It's called: F**k You Startup WorldWe spend this episode looking at the backlash to all the online hype about a life in Startups Resources: Medium Post / Linkedin

The story of ex-Googler Rich Pleeth and his Million Dollar App startup

The story of Skype

Chris Herbert CEO at TrackR talks about his rollercoaster journey to selling 3 1/2 million TrackR devices. If you are struggling to make it as an app entrepreneur, have you considered making hardware for iPhone / Android? This episode will unravel the truth behind starting a startup focussed on hardware.

Mait Muntel, Founder at Lingvist. This is his first startup, but already he has over 1/2 million beta testers (without a single bit of marketing) and he's got the co-founder of Skype as an early investor. He left the team at CERN who discovered the GOD particle to start this startup. It's an inspirational episode.

Logan Estop-Hall Co-Founder and CEO at Rebel Hack Studios. Logan has a great way of leveraging growth by using data and analysing the hell out of your app users journey. He can unlock growth before you plough money into marketing and PR.

Anthony Martin : How I Went From Fixing Phones In My Dorm-Room To Founding A Multi-Million Startup

Anton Ivanov, investor and founder of DealCheckApp.com is behind the most popular app for real estate investing. Are you into startups? You're in for a treat because Anton gives us valuable tips. For example, the importance of building a quick prototype, doing your market research, getting customer feedback and focusing on your first 100 true fans.