• How to Build a Billion Dollar App

  • Discover the secrets of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time
  • By: George Berkowski
  • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
  • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (384 ratings)

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How to Build a Billion Dollar App

By: George Berkowski
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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

Critic reviews

"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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Step by step instructions on how to build an app

Step by step instructions on how to build an app and deploy it online with ample case study references to major tech companies

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So helpful!

This book has helped me out in so many ways as I am getting ready to launch my app!! Thanks George!

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Great research resource.

As an App business owner, I wish this book was written before my first app. I'm certain the outcome would've been exponentially better. Thanks George and hope you publish a new edition soon. I would pay x4 for it. A.C.

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A billion dollar book.

Loved it, it's a great book for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to build a billion dollar app. Highly recommended

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ROCK ON FELLOW ENTREPRENEURS

See You at the TOP!

Thanks for investing your knowledge George, what a great read!

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Good read

Very informative and helpful in all stages
It gives the reader a hands-on realistic view in the app business world

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awesome

loved every bit. great details and explained every thing that is needed for the next step.

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Very informative.

The examples are slightly out of date but only because of the pace technology in this space progresses. highly recommend.

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Great intro into the app world

I’ve read a lot of reviews of entrepreneurs mainly stating that this book did not really offer any intuitive advice regarding the app world . Rather that it is geared toward building a billion dollar business. I can agree to some extent but I see the book as a happy medium for entrepreneurs and engineers. I have learnt a lot of things about business and applications as a whole through this audiobook. Lengthy but good . A great book for those aspiring to do something great.

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must read, it will guid you

read for
1.if you wanna to buid your app
2.it will not teach you coading and programming
3.it will guid you the way, you have to just follow that way to get success

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