Download or read book How to Build a Billion Dollar App written by George Berkowski and published by Little Brown Uk. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, step-by-step guide to building an app-based business—essential reading for anyone who has an idea for an app, but is unsure of where to start 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. InHow to Build a Billion Dollar App, serial tech entrepreneur George Berkowski—one of the minds behind the internationally successful taxi hailing app Hailo—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, Square, Viber, Clash of Clans, Angry Birds, Uber, and Flipboard 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, 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 you're a gifted developer, seasoned entrepreneur, or just intrigued by mobile technology, How to Build a Billion Dollar App will show you what itreally takes to create your own billion-dollar, mobile business.

Download or read book Unlocking Unicorns written by Michael Bervell and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have the key to building a billion-dollar business in an emerging economy? The entrepreneurs in this book do. Unlocking Unicorns features diverse stories from successful billion-dollar startup founders in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Learn about how the internet is revolutionizing non-Western countries and corporations through stories that touch on: Philosophies such as "Guanxi" and mental models such as the "Regret Minimization Framework" The journeys of ten diverse entrepreneurs including Jack Ma (founder of AliBaba), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (founder of Biocon), Mudassir Sheikha (founder of Careem), Bang Si-Hyuk (producer behind BTS), Cher Wang (founder of HTC), Mitchell Elegbe (founder of Africa's first billion-dollar FinTech company), and more Michael Bervell's three-part framework that can be applied within any industry focused on exploration, refinement, and execution. Discover the mental models and characteristics that enabled founders in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to overcome and adapt to brain drain, leapfrogging technologies, location-based discrimination, and government unrest. Unlocking Unicorns is the key to success for aspiring global founders or emerging economy investors who want to do business in the international, interconnected 21st century.

Download or read book The New Builders written by Seth Levine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite popular belief to the contrary, entrepreneurship in the United States is dying. It has been since before the Great Recession of 2008, and the negative trend in American entrepreneurship has been accelerated by the Covid pandemic. New firms are being started at a slower rate, are employing fewer workers, and are being formed disproportionately in just a few major cities in the U.S. At the same time, large chains are opening more locations. Companies such as Amazon with their "deliver everything and anything" are rapidly displacing Main Street businesses. In The New Builders, we tell the stories of the next generation of entrepreneurs -- and argue for the future of American entrepreneurship. That future lies in surprising places -- and will in particular rely on the success of women, black and brown entrepreneurs. Our country hasn't yet even recognized the identities of the New Builders, let alone developed strategies to support them. Our misunderstanding is driven by a core misperception. Consider a "typical" American entrepreneur. Think about the entrepreneur who appears on TV, the business leader making headlines during the pandemic. Think of the type of businesses she or he is building, the college or business school they attended, the place they grew up. The image you probably conjured is that of a young, white male starting a technology business. He's likely in Silicon Valley. Possibly New York or Boston. He's self-confident, versed in the ins and outs of business funding and has an extensive (Ivy League?) network of peers and mentors eager to help his business thrive, grow and make millions, if not billions. You’d think entrepreneurship is thriving, and helping the United States maintain its economic power. You'd be almost completely wrong. The dominant image of an entrepreneur as a young white man starting a tech business on the coasts isn't correct at all. Today's American entrepreneurs, the people who drive critical parts of our economy, are more likely to be female and non-white. In fact, the number of women-owned businesses has increased 31 times between 1972 and 2018 according to the Kauffman Foundation (in 1972, women-owned businesses accounted for just 4.6% of all firms; in 2018 that figure was 40%). The fastest-growing group of female entrepreneurs are women of color, who are responsible for 64% of new women-owned businesses being created. In a few years, we believe women will make up more than half of the entrepreneurs in America. The age of the average American entrepreneur also belies conventional wisdom: It's 42. The average age of the most successful entrepreneurs -- those in the top .01% in terms of their company's growth in the first five years -- is 45. These are the New Builders. Women, people of color, immigrants and people over 40. We're failing them. And by doing so, we are failing ourselves. In this book, you'll learn: How the definition of business success in America today has grown corporate and around the concepts of growth, size, and consumption. Why and how our collective understanding of "entrepreneurship" has dangerously narrowed. Once a broad term including people starting businesses of all types, entrepreneurship has come to describe only the brash technology founders on the way to becoming big. Who are the fastest growing groups of entrepreneurs? What are they working on? What drives them? The real engine that drove Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs. The government had a much bigger role than is widely known The extent to which entrepreneurs and small businesses are woven through our history, and the ways we have forgotten women and people of color who owned small businesses in the past. How we're increasingly afraid to fail The role small businesses are playing saving the wilderness, small towns and redlined communities What we can do to turn the decline in entrepreneurship around, especially be supporting the people who are courageously starting small companies today.

Download or read book Billion Dollar Ideas written by Jacob Wozniak and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-27 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This here is a follow-up to my first book, "Million Dollar Ideas." Is it a thousand times greater than my first book as the title indicates? The answer is yes. Should you buy a thousand copies of my first book to balance the purchase of this book? If my math is correct, the answer is yes. Thank you for your support. - Jake Wozniak

Download or read book Super Founders written by Ali Tamaseb and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super Founders uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest—revealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false! Ali Tamaseb has spent thousands of hours manually amassing what may be the largest dataset ever collected on startups, comparing billion-dollar startups with those that failed to become one—30,000 data points on nearly every factor: number of competitors, market size, the founder’s age, his or her university’s ranking, quality of investors, fundraising time, and many, many more. And what he found looked far different than expected. Just to mention a few: Most unicorn founders had no industry experience; There's no disadvantage to being a solo founder or to being a non-technical CEO; Less than 15% went through any kind of accelerator program; Over half had strong competitors when starting--being first to market with an idea does not actually matter. You will also hear the stories of the early days of billion-dollar startups first-hand. The book includes exclusive interviews with the founders/investors of Zoom, Instacart, PayPal, Nest, Github, Flatiron Health, Kite Pharma, Facebook, Stripe, Airbnb, YouTube, LinkedIn, Lyft, DoorDash, Coinbase, and Square, venture capital investors like Elad Gil, Peter Thiel, Alfred Lin from Sequoia Capital and Keith Rabois of Founders Fund, as well as previously untold stories about the early days of ByteDance (TikTok), WhatsApp, Dropbox, Discord, DiDi, Flipkart, Instagram, Careem, Peloton, and SpaceX. Packed with counterintuitive insights and inside stories from people who have built massively successful companies, Super Founders is a paradigm-shifting and actionable guide for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone interested in what makes a startup successful.

Download or read book Hello Startup written by Yevgeniy Brikman and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the "Hello, World" tutorial for building products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment. It's based on the experiences of the author, Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, as well as interviews with programmers from some of the most successful startups of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Stripe, Instagram, AdMob, Pinterest, and many others. Hello, Startup is a practical, how-to guide that consists of three parts: Products, Technologies, and Teams. Although at its core, this is a book for programmers, by programmers, only Part II (Technologies) is significantly technical, while the rest should be accessible to technical and non-technical audiences alike. If you’re at all interested in startups—whether you’re a programmer at the beginning of your career, a seasoned developer bored with large company politics, or a manager looking to motivate your engineers—this book is for you.

Download or read book How They Did it written by Robert Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How They Did it is a book of inspiration, ideas, and advice from 45 of the most successful living company founders ever to come out of the heart of America. Each founder started, grew, and sold a company for approximately $100 million or more, or took their company public for $300 million or more in market valuation. In total these founders created $41 billion in value from scratch.

Download or read book Do It Yourself Billion Dollar Business Graphics 3 Fast and Easy Steps to Turn Your Text and Ideas Into Graphics That Sell written by Mike Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do-It-Yourself Billion Dollar Business Graphics shows business professionals, technical experts, and designers how to turn their words and ideas into clear, compelling graphics. Includes 100's of real-world examples of graphics that have made companies billions of dollars.

Download or read book Trillion Dollar Ideas Billion Dollar Actions Millions Available written by Dan Knight and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I DARE YOU TO WRITE THE VISION AND MAKE IT PLAIN. RATHER BE BOLD ENOUGH TO BELIEVE YOU CAN RECIEVE. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE WEALTH. THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO THAT AND THOSE FACTS.

Download or read book The Million Dollar One Person Business Revised written by Elaine Pofeldt and published by Lorena Jones Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self-employment revolution is here. Learn the latest pioneering tactics from real people who are bringing in $1 million a year on their own terms. Join the record number of people who have ended their dependence on traditional employment and embraced entrepreneurship as the ultimate way to control their futures. Determine when, where, and how much you work, and by what values. With up-to-date advice and more real-life success stories, this revised edition of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business shows the latest strategies you can apply from everyday people who--on their own--are bringing in $1 million a year to live exactly how they want.

Download or read book A Stable of Unicorns written by Blake Wiers and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The open source handbook for becoming a billionaire. In Silicon Valley, a "unicorn" is a new company worth a billion dollars. In A STABLE OF UNICORNS, sci-fi writer Blake Wiers gives you twenty-five disruptive, dynamic new business ideas. Collected from the author's notes, each Unicorn is fleshed out in entertaining terms. Take your pick, add your spin, and you are off to the unicorn races. Blake Wiers is a daydreaming monkey who taps at his computer master for long hours, hoping for a reward. Your readership! So dive in, mate, and see what mysteries await.

Download or read book Billion Dollar Start up written by Adam Miron and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It only took five years for two brothers-in-law to create a billion-dollar, award-winning, take-no-prisoners cannabis company called HEXO. How did they do it? That's the story. From early roadblocks and devastating personal and financial setbacks to explosive growth and some of the biggest cannabis deals in global history, Billion Dollar Start-Up not only recounts the HEXO story but the history of Canada's momentous road to legalization. In this part fast-paced memoir, part high-octane business book, writer and journalist Julie Beun gives us an intimate look at the life of a start-up and the ferocious entrepreneurial drive it takes to succeed--written in real-time, as the story unfolded. Throughout history, there have been fewer than 100 Canadians who have started a company and lived to see it become worth one billion dollars. Adam Miron and Sébastien St-Louis are two of them. This is their story."--

Download or read book My Billion Dollar Ideas Paperback written by Trezelle M. Morgain and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect journal for taking your thoughts, and ideas brainstorming them and laying the groundwork to monetization. The journal contains separate sections for 20 ideas. Each section comes with it's own affirmation that you can repeat to yourself. No more random pieces of paper and post it notes all over the house. USe this journal to organize your thoughts, expand them and make them a reality. SpecsSize: 8 x 11Colors: Royal Onyx (Black), Opulent Marble (Marble), Luxurious Gold (Gold).

Download or read book Blueprint to a Billion written by David G. Thomson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-12-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for BLUEPRINT TO A BILLION "A wonderful, well thought out analysis of entrepreneurship and leadership of a growth company." —Howard Lester, Chairman, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. "If you dream about growing your business to a billion, this is a fascinating down-to-earth study that you must read. Apply the seven essential principles to your business and you are off and running. Learn about strategy, growth, leadership, team building, and a whole lot more." —Joe Scarlett, Chairman of the Board, Tractor Supply Company "Blueprint to a Billion is a well-researched and thoughtfully written book that quantifies the growth pattern of America's highest growth companies." —Professor John Quelch, Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School "Eighty percent of the top-performing stocks in the last twenty years were small entrepreneurial companies that had an IPO in the prior eight years. Blueprint to a Billion tells you the seven key things these innovators did in common to become America's greatest growth companies." —William J. O'Neil, Chairman and Founder Investor's Business Daily, www.investors.com "Thomson has written a masterful work that will catalyze, empower, inspire, motivate, and illuminate entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers. The world needs this book and will profit from it in manifold ways." —David M. Darst, Managing Director, Individual Investor Group Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley

Download or read book The Billion Dollar Idea written by John M Western and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ever-evolving landscape of business and innovation, the pursuit of the billion-dollar idea has become the modern-day holy grail. From the dorm rooms of Harvard to the garages of Silicon Valley, countless aspiring entrepreneurs have dreamed of striking gold with a revolutionary concept that disrupts industries and transforms the way we live, work, and play.But what separates the billion-dollar ideas from the pipe dreams? What is the secret sauce that propels a groundbreaking concept from a mere glimmer of potential to a world-changing, wealth-generating juggernaut? In "The Billion-Dollar Idea," you'll embark on an exhilarating journey that unveils the secrets behind conceiving, nurturing, and capitalizing on ideas that have the power to reshape industries and redefine the boundaries of what's possible. Packed with real-world insights, proven strategies, and inspiring success stories, this comprehensive guide takes you behind the scenes of some of the most iconic billion-dollar companies, dissecting the thought processes, risk-taking mindsets, and pivotal decisions that propelled their founders to stratospheric heights. You'll learn how to uncover unmet needs and spot opportunities that others overlook, leveraging the art of observation, pattern recognition, and creative synthesis to connect the dots and generate truly disruptive ideas. From market validation and prototyping techniques to building scalable business models and attracting investors, this book equips you with the tools and frameworks to transform your vision into a financially viable, high-growth enterprise. But "The Billion-Dollar Idea" goes beyond mere tactics and strategies. It delves deep into the psychological and emotional dimensions of entrepreneurship, helping you cultivate the resilience, perseverance, and unwavering focus required to weather the inevitable storms and seize the opportunities that accompany any groundbreaking venture. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned business leader, or simply someone with a burning desire to leave your mark on the world, "The Billion-Dollar Idea" is your roadmap to unlocking the secrets of transformative innovation and creating something truly extraordinary. Embrace the journey, and let this book be your guide as you embark on the exhilarating pursuit of the billion-dollar idea that could change the world.

Download or read book Green Giants written by E. Williams and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Brazil’s top beauty brand, America’s second-fastest-growing restaurant chain, and the world’s third bestselling car have in common--besides achieving enormous success with revenue in the tens of billions? They are doing it all while holding to their convictions of implementing sustainable principles that help consumers live better lives. But they aren’t the only ones. Green Giants examines nine companies--including Chipotle, Toyota, Unilever, Tesla, General Electric, and more--who have established the blueprint for sustainable success that anyone can follow. Author Freya Williams, an early pioneer of the modern sustainable business movement, discovered six factors responsible for the overwhelming success of these nine socially responsible companies: The Iconoclastic Leader Disruptive Innovation A Higher Purpose Built In, Not Bolted On Mainstream Appeal New Behavioral Contract Packed with eye-opening research, exclusive interviews, and enlightening examples, Green Giants serves as your blueprint for merging wild profitability with social responsibility.

Download or read book Billion Dollar Lessons written by Paul B. Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”This book is your chance to learn from others’ mistakes.”-- Entrepreneur In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, “Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.” There are thousands of books about successful companies but virtually none about the lessons to be learned from those that crash and burn. Now Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui draw on research into more than 750 flameouts to reveal the seven biggest reasons for business failure.