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Welcome back to How to Build an App! Over the past year, we have organized and collected the most common questions that we get asked. During today's episode, you will get the answer to at least the following questions. How long does it take to build an app? What language should I use to build an app? How much does it cost to build an app? When am I…

Welcome back to How to Build an App! Building an app has never been easier than it is today. The app industry is shifting away from code and beginning to shift more to no-code solutions. In today's episode, we talk with the CEO and founder David Adkin to tell us how the industry is shifting. --- Learn more about Adalo here: https://www.adalo.com/ -…

Welcome back to How to Build an App! Marketing is a major pillar across every space, if you are not marketing now you will start very soon. Posting social content is one of the many ways to find and reach a wider audience for your target demographic. It also allows you to build a community of loyal followers and find new supporters. Chances are you…

Welcome back to How to Build an App! In today's episode, you will learn whether or not technology is the most important part of building a tech company. You might be surprised by the answer! Today Sai Krishna the founder and CEO of Scapic will be joining us. Scapic is meant to be the simplest way you create, share and explore AR, VR & 3D experience…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! This week, we’ve brought Walter Cruttenden, the co-founder of Acorns onto the show! I feel like everyone’s heard of Acorns, but if you haven’t, it’s a micro-investing platform that allows users to set up automated investments through round-ups. Basically Acorns rounds up a debit or credit card purchase to the ne…

Welcome back to How to Build an App! As a founder, there will come a time where you have to start bringing more people onto your team. Whether it’s finding a co-founder, bringing on a developer, or hiring a development shop, you can’t do this alone. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again, there is no one person who can strategize, concept, de…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! Today’s episode may be a little shorter than usual, but it packs a punch! We got together with Darius Mora, the Chief Marketing Officer of the app Reflectly. If you haven’t heard much about it, Reflectly is an AI journaling app that has gained tens of millions of users and seen massive growth over the last 3 yea…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! As much as we’d all love a step by step roadmap as entrepreneurs, there is no exact formula. There’s no exact formula for building a successful startup, or a company that you can have a successful exit from. Being an entrepreneur is unpredictable and you have to be ready to forge your own way and solve problems …

Welcome back to How To Build An App! This week, we’ve got John Mayfield on the show with us. He’s the founder of a venture capital firm called Album VC, that invests in early-stage tech ventures. They’ve invested in over 80 companies and have grown to the point that their average investment is $1.5 million. You might recognize some of the big names…

What does it take to get a great idea off the ground? You’re probably here, listening to this podcast because you’ve got a great idea for an app. Maybe you’ve already got a prototype, or maybe you’re just getting started. There is a lot to consider in the beginning stages of turning your idea into an app, and one of the most important things to rem…

Would you rather have twenty-five percent of a company that sells for $8 billion, or a hundred percent of something that's worth $250 grand? With some quick math, that question should be pretty easy for anyone to answer. There’s much more profit in owning a portion of that $8 billion company! But why are we asking? This week’s episode is all about …

Welcome back to How To Build An App! This week, we’re talking about funding and investors. When it comes to startups, funding is a big topic of conversation. Are you going to bootstrap? Will you seek out investors? What kind of investors? When should you even start trying to get outside funding? Then you’ve got to consider how to pitch your product…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! One of the things that is most impactful on your success as a founder, is the culture of your development team. Do they work efficiently? Are they willing to stick with it through the growing pains of a new company? Can they recognize and utilize their strengths as well as their potential blindspots or weaknesse…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! Today we have a different type of episode for you as we wrap up Season 2. Today we’re sharing a session we did recently for Denver Startup Week. The session was called, Stop writing code: The ONE thing to do before developing your app to save hundreds of thousands and it was a lot of fun to share some of the thi…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! Just a couple of episodes back we were talking about how you can definitely build an app as a non-technical founder, but you HAVE to find someone who can fill the gaps in your knowledge and experience. We talk about this a ton! And it’s true for other elements, or you could even say requirements, for running a s…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! In this episode, we’re taking a deep dive into how to create and present an investor-ready pitch deck. Our guest is Allison Byers, and honestly, she blew us away with her experience in this realm. Her background is actually in psychology and after being passed up for a job that she was way overqualified for, she…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! In previous episodes, we’ve addressed the question of whether you can found a tech startup as a non-technical founder. Ultimately, the answer is YES but you absolutely need to find someone for your team that does have that technical background. Our guests this week, Carl Robinson and Joris Guerry, are a prime ex…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! Our guest today is Jeff Coyle, the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Market Muse If you haven’t heard of Market Muse, here are a few highlights. Market Muse is an AI platform used to accelerate content planning, creation, and optimization. The MarketMuse platform identifies content quality issues on its u…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! I’m your host Austin Betzer and I’m here with Bowdrie Price. Our guest this week is Steve Young, the founder and CEO of App Masters. Not to be confused with Steve Young, the football player haha! Steve has kind of a cool backstory that he’ll share with you during this episode, but just to give a little teaser, i…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! We’ve got an awesome episode ahead on go-to-market strategy and customer retention. Our guest this week is, Fouad Saeidi, the founder and CEO of App Growth Network, ​​a global app marketing agency that helps app founders identify growth objectives and come up with a data-backed action plan for success. You’ll he…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! This week on the How to Build an App Podcast, we’ve got an absolutely information-packed episode with Rob Walling. Rob is the co-founder of TinySeed which is the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. He’s also written three books, spoken at startup conferences around the world, and co-founded Mic…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! This is part 2 of our conversation with Josh Nielsen, the founder of Zencastr. In last week’s episode we talked about Josh’s back story and how Zencastr came about, so if you haven’t listened to episode 30 yet, check it out! It’s a great episode where Josh shares his own personal experiences of struggle, rejecti…

Welcome back to How to Build an App. This week we’re talking with Josh Nielsen, founder of Zencastr. Zencastr is a modern web based solution for high-quality audio and video podcast production. After his own business ideas were rejected by Techstars several times, Josh started working for them as a developer. Eventually he left Techstars to do what…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! This week we’re sitting down with another founder of one of our earliest app builds! Doug Cartwright is the founder of The Daily Shifts, a personal development platform and media company with an online course, workshops, personal coaching, and a mobile app. The Daily Shifts app helps its users build healthy dail…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! This week we are sitting down with Chris Holmes, the founder of EquineTrader. Chris grew up riding, training, and owning horses. According to him, people either love horses or rarely give them a second thought. Chris is one of those people that absolutely loves horses. During a time when he was breeding and rais…

Welcome back to How to Build an App. Last week, we sat down with Cahlan Sharp, founder of DevMountain, one of the top coding schools in the country. We talked about everything from selecting a balanced founding team to how ideas evolve and what it takes for a product to succeed. This week on How to Build an App we’re continuing our conversation wit…

Welcome back to How to Build an App. This week we’re talking with Cahlan Sharp, founder of DevMountain, one of the top coding schools in the country. Besides building an awesome coding school, Cahlan has participated in his fair share of startups and is a self- proclaimed “serial entrepreneur.” Through his experiences as a teacher, technologist, en…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! This is part two of our two part episode with Aaron Mitchell, founder of FreePlay. In part one, Aaron shared some of his back story and what led him to create FreePlay, as well as some of the hard lessons he learned along the way. Just to recap a little, FreePlay is an app that allows any group fitness instructo…

Welcome back to How to Build an App. This week we’re talking with Aaron Mitchell, founder of FreePlay. FreePlay is an app that allows any group fitness instructor to connect with and coach their fitness communities live. It didn’t start out that way, but we’ll let Aaron tell you how it did and how it became what it is today. Aaron started out in pr…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! Our guest today is Peter Caputa, the CEO of Databox Databox is a software that helps companies view all of their performance data in one place so they can spend less time checking on data and creating reports, and more time acting on data insights. Peter also played a huge role in the rise and success of Hubspot…

This is episode 22 and this is the SECOND part of our interview with Tyler Richards from Dev Mountain. If you missed part one, definitely head back and catch that one — it’s the episode RIGHT BEFORE this one. Last week we heard Tyler’s origin story and how Dev Mountain came to be. When we left off, Tyler was on top of the world — you heard about hi…

Our guest today is Tyler Richards who was a co-founder behind Dev Mountain which is THE coding boot camp. Dev Mountain has re-imagined skills-based education through their intensive program where new students can come in and learn how to program in just a few weeks. Austin actually started his career with Dev Mountain and that’s where HE learned ho…

Welcome back to How To Build An App! As you know, in season 2, we’re talking to FOUNDERS about their journey in starting and scaling their company… And have a great episode for you today… Our guest today is Jeff Erickson of Carta.com If you haven’t heard of Carta, here are a few highlights. Carta helps companies and investors manage their cap table…

This is part TWO of our interview with Zachariah Moreno. We’ll be doing a lot of these two-part episodes going forward where we share their origin story in the first part and then their lessons learned in part 2. So here we are! And Zachariah has a ton of great lessons to share. We’ll talk about navigating FUNDING and the difference between bootstr…

Welcome to season TWO! We JUST wrapped season 1 and that was all about our story, our background as an app development shop, and most importantly, we had conversations with our team and our network to talk about all the things you need to consider as you build your app. In season 2 we’re talking to founders and operators of tech companies. A lot of…

This is PART 2 of our Season 1 recap. If you haven’t listened to part 1, you’ll definitely want to give that a listen before jumping in here. We released it yesterday, so it’s just RIGHT BEFORE this one. In part 1, we talked about episodes 1-9. We chatted about validating your idea, designing your app, and creating a MAGICAL user experience. We tal…

This is the first of a TWO part episode to wrap up what we’re calling the first season of How to Build An App. So far in this season, we’ve talked about different things you need to consider as you’re trying to turn your big idea into a finished app. Today, we want to recap a few highlights from our first 9 episodes, and TOMORROW we’re going to cov…

Let’s say you have a really good app idea and you want to build it… where do you start? Over this past season, we’ve actually chatted with a LOT of people who can help answer that question... Not to mention we’ve chatted with hundreds of app founders and you know where they wish they would have started? Refining the vision for the project. In today…

We’ve talked so much about all the aspects of building an app from validating your idea to design to marketing and more. But you know what we haven’t covered? Actually BUILDING and coding your app. So today we’re jumping on with a handful of devs that we work with on a regular basis to talk shop and talk code. Shane Kofoed and I break down ins and …

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could order a Cuban sandwich and a crepe to where you’re sitting right now? Well… if you were sitting in Seaside, Florida you’d be able to do just that. Our guest today is one of our friends and clients Jay Eikelburger. Jay is the founder of a really cool app called Flip Flops. FlipFlops allows you to order food right to …

Content is king, but what do you do if you run out of content ideas? Our guest today is Brian Dean. Brian is the founder of Backlinko and Exploding Topics. Brian Dean has been called an "SEO genius" by Entrepreneur.com and a "brilliant entrepreneur" by Inc Magazine. Brian's award-winning blog, Backlinko.com, has been listed by Forbes as a top "blog…

We’re on episode 11 of How to Build an App… What do you think is the MOST consistent piece of advice we keep hearing over and over? This isn’t even a hard question… It seems like every one of our guests has told us that you need to know your customer, know their pains, know their frustrations, and have a clear understanding of how your app will hel…

What can you do if you have a really great idea, but you don’t have any money to throw at it to make it go? This is a common question we hear from founders… ESPECIALLY the founders we work with because in the tech space you typically have to invest a lot in your product and app before you’ll ever make any revenue. Today we’re talking with Brian Spr…

So far this season we've talked to all kinds of experts. We've talked to people in finance, design, UX, marketing sales, and a bunch of other things, but what are we missing? Branding. So, today we're talking with Priscilla Blanchot, a design and brand rockstar. She's passionate about helping companies nail their brand, specifically those in the B2…

How do you keep your ideas safe and protect all of your hard work? Today, the lawyers have officially taken over this podcast. Our guest today is Jeff Holman, the founder of Intellectual Strategies, which is an IP-Focused law firm for startups. Jeff has an extensive background in trademarks, patents, and general IP strategy. This episode is full of…

Marketing! That's what Shane Kofoed of Standard Behavior is all about. Shane has attained a wealth of experience from starting three of his own companies and consulting with 500+ clients over the course of his 15-year entrepreneurial journey. Now, if you're only just thinking about marketing as your app is launching, then you're a good year or two …

Let’s talk about money! In this episode, we’re talking with Garrick Foy of Red Rock Tax. Garrick has seen a lot of companies in his work as a tax strategist, consultant, and accountant. He’s dealt with companies of all sizes and helps them manage the ONE constant between them all… CASHFLOW. He’s had a TON of opportunity to see the inner workings of…

Welcome to the How to Build an App podcast. This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here. Ma…

Welcome to the How to Build an App podcast. This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here. Ma…