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How to Build a Billion Dollar App
- Discover the secrets of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Business Development & Entrepreneurship
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Summary
The ultimate guide to building an app-based business - now revised and updated
Apps have changed the way we communicate, shop, play, interact and travel, and their phenomenal popularity has presented possibly the biggest business opportunity in history.
In How to Build a Billion Dollar App, serial tech entrepreneur George Berkowski gives you exclusive access to the secrets behind the success of the select group of apps that have achieved billion-dollar success.
Berkowski draws exclusively on the inside stories of the billion-dollar app club members, including Instagram, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Candy Crush and Uber, to provide all the information you need to create your own spectacularly successful mobile business. He guides you through each step, from an idea scribbled on the back of an envelope through to finding a cofounder, building a team and attracting (and keeping) millions of users, all the way through to juggling the pressures of being CEO of a billion-dollar company (and still staying ahead of the competition).
If you've ever dreamed of quitting your nine-to-five job to launch your own company, or if you're a gifted developer, a seasoned entrepreneur or just intrigued by mobile technology, How to Build a Billion Dollar App will show you what it really takes to create your own billion-dollar mobile business.
Critic reviews
"A fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar apps. Essential reading for anyone trying to build the next must-have app." (Michael Acton Smith, founder and CEO, Mind Candy)
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- Anonymous User
- 04-01-18
Worth my time reading! Excellent
Gave a great insight into app industry and history. understand what involved in developing and growing an app business.
3 people found this helpful
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- Mia
- 09-05-20
Definitely interesting!
Listening in 2020 and it seems quite outdated (but by nature of talking about tech companies that’s expected)
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- Anonymous User
- 05-02-22
excellent
Realistic, based on real world. Very indepth with fantastic insight. Definatley buy this audio book.
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- Bjorn Bradshaw-Murray
- 24-01-22
Insightful
Loved it! Such a wonderful insight into the world of app development and the movements of some of the key players in that world.
A must read if you are interested in breaking into that market
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- Raymond
- 10-01-22
Lots of useful knowledge
Lots of useful knowledge and concepts to keep in mind when building an app
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- Anonymous User
- 08-04-21
👌🏾
The reader, the content and all is superb. This is my first book on Audible and I looovve it
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- Cheesam
- 29-10-20
Interesting but repetitive
Obviously if are building an app it’s very useful to learn how to scale the business. It felt like some sections were repeated at points. This will be something of a reference book and likely you’d come back to it which is why it may do this.
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- Julia Lau
- 23-09-20
Very informative
It is a very detail and useful book about building an app to success!! Great book and nicely read
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- 18-09-20
Satisfying delivery.
I wish if George, discussed more in depth details about the backend development and software development methods in general for all these apps he's mentioned and given examples of.
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- David
- 16-05-20
A truly inspirational and practical look at the world of extremely valuable App companies
George shares the stories of his and others successes in a very informative and entertaining way. One of the few books I want to read again.
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- Alessandro Orlandi
- 21-03-19
There are interesting ideas
There are interesting idea, but nothing new under the sun. It talks a little bit about Lean Startup and Scrum applied to Apps. Generally if you are a developer and you read the lean startup, I don't think you gain much out of this book.
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- Angel
- 13-10-17
More of a business business book.
The first part of the book discussed a few intersting bits on building a good app and then the rest of it was about the business side of running a company, and mostly about raising funds. A few well known apps were used as examples and discussed mostley thier figures, valuations and buyouts. I enjoyed some of analysis tools and metrics for measuring the profitability and effectiveness of an app, but otherwise found the 2nd half of the book a bit dry. This is definitely a book more suited for entrepreneurs than developers.
3 people found this helpful
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- Victor
- 23-12-18
Jam Packed with Great Comparisons and Metrics to Follow
This is a great book with a lot of applicable tips tricks, and metrics. You receive insight into the stories of some of the wildly successful apps and the way they got up there.
2 people found this helpful
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- Edward K.
- 21-04-18
Understanding the App Business
I found this book loaded with information for running an app business. Even though it is really geared to running a venture backed company, there where many take-aways for someone who is running a smaller organization.
Edward K.
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- Nagappan A.
- 14-05-20
Good book if you have nothing to do with Tech
At chapter 3 and the data so far have not learnt one new thing as yet .
People like apps
People like social apps
Steve Jobs is awesome
1 person found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 22-11-18
The Best You Can Read
Hands down the Best book in this field. i have enjoyed it & i love it!
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- Kiah
- 26-04-18
Not what I thought it would be
Not what it seems title misleading Not a how to book at all for apps
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- jeremy
- 28-02-18
much better than I thought it would be
The name kind of threw me off at first. I figured it would be some gimmicky book full of selling you their services, but it wasn't. it's literally a how to book on how to get into the billion dollar app club.
some things might be a bit dated by now, but not too much, and that doesn't mean the info isn't still valuable. business is still business.
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- Sam
- 09-01-18
Informative!
I recommend this book to anyone with a vision to build a app or in the process of building! Two thumps up! Extremely helpful.
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- Shane Smith
- 03-01-22
A bit too old now
Aside from the story being 5 years old in the Tech industry there were few nuggets hidden throughout the entire book which I felt I covered a lot of ground to embarry each 1. Not a very efficient Reid.