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by bignoggins 15y ago
Sorry for the n00b question, but can someone explain the distinction between PE investor & angel/VC? Is angel/VC a subset of PE investor?
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by bignoggins 15y ago
This may work for the web, but for mobile I would argue a good designer is as important, if not more so, than a good developer. I'm speaking as a developer who has realized this and hired a designer. Best business decision I've ever made.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
hardware? this isn't looking like it's just an app =)
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by bignoggins 15y ago
Chris, is your friend contributing anything else besides the idea? ie capital, programming, design, business contacts? If not then I hope you aren't considering a 50/50 split because that would be quite unfair to you.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
and where does the company get the money to spend on R&D? That is the chicken and egg problem. That's like saying Warren Buffet is good at picking stocks because he is rich and can afford to spend more money picking stocks.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
My expenses are pretty minimal, ~ 5K/year total.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
both iOS and android. I use some contractors but do most of the programming myself. My apps are listed in my profile, mostly sports related.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
Absolutely agree with this. I left on a round the world trip in April with my wife. We've been through Australia, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, and now Austria. I spend half of my time trave
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by bignoggins 15y ago
thanks for the clarification. it would have been nice to mention that in the original post, that's where my confusion came from.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
rank is a direct measurement of total downloads, so it's straightforward to extrapolate.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
I don't see how this post answers the "how" at all. From what I'm reading it just seems like pure luck that they got featured by apple. Am I missing something?
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by bignoggins 15y ago
I'm skeptical of the 30k profit/month title. I think it's just linkbait to promote their game. If you look at their app ranking history (registration needed): http://www.appannie.com/copterkid/ranking/history/#start_dat... they are nowher
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by bignoggins 15y ago
when you autorelease, the reference goes into an autorelease pool that is drained later. So you will likely end up using much more memory than you need to. Since iOS runs on memory constrained devices, this could mean the difference between
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by bignoggins 15y ago
Jews only make up 2% of the population in the United States. I would argue that US policy toward Israel is motivated more by Christian end-times theology of the religious right than by the Jews themselves.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
I love being part of a bootstrapped startup. I have 100% control of the company, don't have to answer to investors, and can actually focus on making profit instead of trying to scale. Oh, and I'm traveling the world while doing it.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
that strategy does not apply to mobile apps. You need a polished product before you release.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
still pretty low, that's 700/day. I've never released a free app that didn't get < 1,000 d/l a day, and my apps are niche apps with no advertising or marketing at all. I would remove the 10,000 copies reference because anyone who has an
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by bignoggins 15y ago
10,000 copies in one month strikes me as extremely low for a free app.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
Sure, but my point is that buyers don't know whether the UI is consistent or not until they actually buy it. All they have to go off of are screenshots, and if they see screenshots of standard looking SDK components they'll gloss right over
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by bignoggins 15y ago
Based on my experience, your tastes are definitely not typical (at least of app store customers). Customized UIs are very popular, and in my opinion they are definitely not ugly. But opinions matter very little in the marketplace...
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by bignoggins 15y ago
Sorry, but I just can't take one person's armchair quarterback opinion over hundreds of thousands of paying customers. If you have actual sales data to back up your theory I'm all ears but your opinion seems to be an untested hypothesis. I'
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by bignoggins 15y ago
My latest iphone/iPad app would probably be considered as "overdesigned" by the article's standards. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fantasy-football-draft-monste... http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fantasy-football-draft-monste... Do you
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by bignoggins 15y ago
I'm a single founder with a fairly profitable business (low-mid six figure profits after 1 year). I guess out of ignorance, I never even considered getting a cofounder. I can't say I regret my decision. Having 100% control over the course o
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by bignoggins 15y ago
i'm not too worried. if it happens it happens. This isn't even my best performing app by a long shot. Besides, it already has a ton of visibility in the app store so competitors would naturally arise whether I posted any numbers or not. Fro
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by bignoggins 15y ago
yeah for future trips we are definitely going to bring the dog.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
Currently, I have 149 people in my circles. 10% of them are google employees, but they contribute 2/3 of the items in my feed. Not sure if this matches anyone else's experience. Most of my non-technical family and friends tried it out for a
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by bignoggins 15y ago
interesting anecdote. Though not as extreme as your example, my wife comes from a lower middle class background, and my parents are a bit more well to do. Her parent's house is much more cluttered than mine.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
28 and married. I'm own a mobile app business so I can work from anywhere in the world. I didn't need to save up any money as my earnings are enough to cover all of my expenses.
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by bignoggins 15y ago
I'm not sure if this qualifies as minimalist, but 5 months ago I moved out of my apartment, put everything in storage, packed a week worth of clothes, a macbook air, ipad, ipod and set off around the world. I used to have quite a bit of "st
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by bignoggins 15y ago
android only

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