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  • By: George Berkowski
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  • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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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.

©2014 George Berkowski (P)2017 Hachette Audio

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"A must read for anyone who wants to start a mobile app business." (Riccardo Zacconi, founder and CEO, King Digital, maker of Candy Crush Saga)
"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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Worth my time reading! Excellent

Gave a great insight into app industry and history. understand what involved in developing and growing an app business.

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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Listening in 2020 and it seems quite outdated (but by nature of talking about tech companies that’s expected)

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Very well written and in-depth

The author goes in detail of a lot of things:

How to do market research?
How to come up with an idea that will sell?
How to hire the best people?
How to take your app to market?
How to market your app?
How to fund your app from it's inception all the way to a billion dollars?

He talks about series A and series B funding. Everything is well described.

Loved every part of the audio book.

I am planning to buy the paperback too.

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A brilliant book!

I feel that I’ll be re-listening to this book multiple times as it’s so dense and covers a lot of ground in this industry.

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excellent

Realistic, based on real world. Very indepth with fantastic insight. Definatley buy this audio book.

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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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Lots of useful knowledge

Lots of useful knowledge and concepts to keep in mind when building an app

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👌🏾

The reader, the content and all is superb. This is my first book on Audible and I looovve it

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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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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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