Episodes 301-400 of The App Guy Podcast, a Podcast that interviews inspiring App Entrepreneurs! Turn back the clock with Paul Kemp and listen to the beginning.
I celebrate reaching episode 400 with a look back to the early idea of this podcast and also the past 100 episodes.
Oren Kaniel CEO & co-founder talks about being on the VC side of the table, then moving over to become an entrepreneur and startup founder. His company, Appsflyer has grown from less than 10 people to now over 130 people. It's an inspiring journey to follow.
Scott Lyons , Connected Vehicle & Services Organisation at Ford Motor Company. A fascinating discussion about the connected car. Also, listen for us talking about Scott's early career at MTV. It goes to show that a career path can take many directions. All it takes is a passion for something - in Scott's case it's a passion for smart mobility.
Omri 'Bob' Shor , Founder and CEO, MediSafe. An app inspired by his father, Medisafe has now dispensed over 270 million doses and raised over $7 million in total.
Guy Vincent, Founder & CEO at Publishizer talks about his fascinating entrepreneur journey which started in India (renting a place for $17 per month) and led to beating thousands of applicants to win a place at 500 Startups and received $100,000 of funding
Kristian Bromley, Managing Director of Firebox.com takes us on a journey from the early days of firebox (the founders playing chess with shot glasses) to today. The tagline is 'Shop for the unusual' and we learn about the importance of brand and startup culture.
Hans van Gent - strategic internet professional, technical marketer, founder @ Inbound Rocket and Client Service Director digital @ Havas Worldwide . Learn from a world expert content marketing and inbound marketing guru.
David de Min founder of Velapp says if you have an idea that you're passionate about - JUST DO IT!
Jeff Standard Co-founder, Product Manager at Drivemode. Have you ever wondered what education you'll get from running a startup? You'll want to listen to Jeff's look back on his startups over the years and how his speed of learning has helped him to create Drivemode.
Charlie Smith Cofounder and Jessica Buerger Community Manager both at Ideator, Inc. walk us through the excitement that is a day on Product Hunt. Learn how to manage and prepare for a successful launch on Product Hunt.
Alex Depledge CEO & Co-Founder at Hassle.com (one of the best performing TechStars companies in London) says that sometimes the simplest ideas are the most powerful.
Ben Rubin Co-Founder and CEO at Change Collective talks about partnering with ABC's and Good Morning America's co-anchor Dan Harris - author of 10% happier
Ryan Johnson VP of Mobile Engineering At BuzzFeed talks about an amazing viral case study. How BuzzFeed achieved 60 million views as a result of one tweet
Alec Gordon CEO at Beam Messenger recounts hitting the radar of BuzzFeed. In his words: "we saw the server side of it exploding and all these people coming in".
Janet Murray founder of JanetMurray.co.uk can help you get press coverage for your business or brand. Whether you're looking to attract more customers, raise cash – or just make more people aware of what you do – being featured in places like the Guardian, Huffington Post or Psychologies magazine, or landing a spot on BBC Breakfast or Sky News, Janet will help you get there quicker.
Yaniv Leven CEO & Co-Founder at Panoply.io talks about the entrepreneurial journey. He suggests an entrepreneur must feel that they are changing something in the world that is a given.
Graham Hobson co-founder of Photobox talks us through his amazing story of conceiving the idea of printing digital photos online - in 1999. Remember, this was a time when there were hardly any digital cameras and broadband was scarce. Photobox has grown from earning less than a fiver on day 1 to now celebrating serving over 7 million customers, 32 million birthdays, 8 million birthdays and 1.5 million proud announcements.
Jake Ward President and CEO of the Application Developers Alliance talks about the founding of the alliance to help protect the interests of developers. A non-profit global membership organisation supporting developers as creators, innovators and entrepreneurs.
Jorge Selva of Minium is on a mission to build the first modern minimalist phone. There is a lot of synergies with what Jorge is doing with Minium and my co-project for a distraction free creative writing tool called iLys.com.
Pedro Oliveira Co-founder at Landing.jobs and Matt Carrozo Head Of Marketing at Landing.jobs talk through their number 1 Product Hunt launch day. They crushed it at the top. They made the newsletter the following day and, as a bonus, they are likely to make it into the most upvoted hunts collection in November. Listen to the excitement as we talk through launch day where I was actively involved in guiding Pedro, Matt and the rest of the Landing.Jobs team through a successful Product Hunt launch day.
Feifan Wang and Alex Kim are the creators of Core15. Fei has quit his job to follow his dream of being an appreneur. This is a story of two entrepreneurs building an app from the heart with love, dedication and passion.
Sachin Duggal : says "I Don't Think You Should Be Spending Your Life Doing Something You Don't Enjoy"
Steve O'Hear a prominent journalist at TechCrunch shares his thoughts on the industry, answers AppsterTribe questions about the tech press and talks about how life as a startup founder made him a better tech journalist.
Ajitpal Pannu Chief Business Officer at Smaato introduces us to SPX: The Smaato Publisher Platform. He also talks about app montization strategies,
Jonathan Chizick, VP Business Development at Drippler talks on the curation of tips & tools to make your smartphone awesome. Also, how Drippler got massive coverage in the tech press and sources of app downloads.
Martin Bryant Editor-at-large at The Next Web helps us understand the burning questions we have for tech journalists. For example: How do app entrepreneurs and startup founders catch the eye of a tech journalist? How do the top tech sites manage relationships with large companies with big PR departments or outsourced PR agencies?
Omri Lachman, CEO and Co-Founder of Humavox talks about wireless charging in the age of connectivity.
Omer Enbar CEO & Co founder @ Sensibo talks about building a fantastic consumer gadget that makes any air conditioner smart. If you're interested in the internet of things, then this is the episode for you.
Jon Bradford Co-Founder of Tech.eu and F6S and recently departed MD at Techstars gives us loads of great advice when getting into startups. This is a 'must listen to' episode for any aspirational app entrepreneurs
Ricki Gregersen, CEO at You And The Gang, was so amazed at the touchscreen capability of the iPhone, when it first came out, that he quit his job to learn Objective-C
Dan Pratt, founder and COO of AdHawk talks about his journey with his startup. He's solving big pain points for advertisers because of the growth and fragmentation of self-serve ad platforms.
Guy Eldar, co-founder and CEO of AppMyDay. Guy has learnt a huge amount being involved in the startup space. In fact, The previous company that he worked for was a startup that eventually got acquired by Facebook.
Semion Rotshtein co-founder and CTO at Cydersoft is on an amazing growth path. He has raised $2.3m and delivers around 180 million mobile video ads every day.
Ilya Pozin, founder of Pluto TV has a successfully raised $13m to disrupt the way we watch content online. An entrepreneur with a big vision and an episode to inspire app entrepreneurs to follow their own vision.
David Shack, Director of Marketing at flyp talks about the vision of the team and the growth of his team over a short 14 months. He also shares his story about starting a mobile company and selling it. An episode to inspire anyone interested in mobile entrepreneurship.
Garrett Weinzierl working remotely & bootstrapping to bring to life this unique multiplayer gaming solution for game developers.
Oren Barzilai CEO & Co-Founder Start A Fire has a genius idea to help you brand anything you share online with your own badge and content.
Ayelet Noff Founder and CEO Blonde 2.0 shares her story about YO becoming one of the most viral apps of all time and how she did it.
Jon Grant is currently raising a £250k seed round and is the founder at Knocker.
Joe Grano, Co Founder & CEO Yes/No App talks about my favourite launch strategy. Doing a deal with an online celebrity and influencer and launching to an eager audience.
Justin Yuille, Creator & co-developer of 4YearTrip teaches us how to build an app that has the potential to provide an income whilst working full time. Hint: it takes a lot of early mornings.
Ben Reid (Founder & Business Director) and Patricia Parkinson ( Founder & CCO) both at Reidefine Media call in from my favourite co-working space on the planet. We talk about the opportunity in short-form video and China
Yosi Taguri, Founder & CTO at Yallo Inc. talks about learning to train the instinct part of your brain to increase the likelihood of your success as an entrepreneur. The Yallo App is on the verge of launching. Watch this space!
Greg Devlin co-founder of Neon Tiki Tribe. These are a series of apps with "educational" superheroes! Greg talks about his 7 year journey to bring his creation to the app store.
Anthony Blatner, Partner, Mobile Lead at Jackrabbit Mobile, says One of the things I love the most is getting to work with all the different entrepreneurs in the community
Eve Peters Founder/CEO of Trywhim realised that its best for a startup to build a meaningful business that provides real value and that's shown through people willing to pay some amount for it.
Romain Derrien CEO at Ubicolor reminds us that we can keep the entrepreneurial journey alive despite having a full time job.
Ian Sells, CEO and Founder of StrongVolt reminds us that a successful Kickstarter campaign can help us keep all our equity within our mobile businesses.
Jorge Diaz founder of Leadlayer says its the right approach to focus on building a subscriber list.
Gwendi Klisa founder of Paperly Apps talks about the need to be free from the accountability that goes with working a typical 9 to 5
Don Bora Partner/Owner Eight Bit Studios tells us why he loves being an entrepreneur, setting his own hours, working in Chicago and being involved in tech.
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