I’m back! With a new app. It’s called HeadsApp.co George February 6, 2021 Augmented Reality Hey everyone - so great to see so many of you continue to visit the website since the book was published. I'm now back with a new awesome app - called HeadsApp.co. It's for the new post COVID world, works on...
Deep Augmented Reality with DeepAR.ai George May 21, 2017 Billion Dollar Apps I wanted to share with you one of the projects that I have been involved with in the last year. It's called DeepAR.ai. It's an artificial intelligence startup that is focused on Deep Learning, but...
The Second Mobile Revolution George March 14, 2016 Insights, Research The first 2.5bn smartphones brought us Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, Whatsapp, Kik, Venmo, Duolingo, and most importantly, drove the big web apps to build world class mobile apps and move their userbases from web...
A New Underground AppStore that’s Blowing Up (from Amazon) George March 9, 2016 Marketing, user acquisition THE WAY DEVELOPERS sell apps has changed. It’s no longer as simple as in-app payments, or a premium price to download. What comes next, though, is anything but settled. One promising path is Amazon...
The Secret Terms on Unicorn Startup Termsheets George January 3, 2016 Billion Dollar Apps, Legal It's worthing knowing your legalise (unfortunately as an entrepreneur you have no choice). Fenwick has outlined the most interesting terms that are typically secret, and used often in $1billion+ rounds. It's...
6 Forces Behind the AI Boom George October 12, 2015 Research I am becoming increasing interested in AI. It seems to be finally hitting its stride - it's coming a micro-service available to all (wit.ai), it's learning to play video games by itself (Deepmind) and Google...
Inside the Billion-Dollar App Story Waze George August 14, 2015 Billion Dollar Apps, Waze It's always fascinating to hear the inside story of Billion-Dollar acquisitions. Usually we find ourselves waiting a bit of time before we get the juicy details, and sure enough it's been more than a couple...
Another Billion Dollar Dating App? No chance George July 16, 2015 Billion Dollar Apps, Dating Tinder’s success has definitely helped fuel an explosion of dating apps but it is still as hard as ever trying to make a $ in the dating industry. In case you didn't know, one of my earlier businesses was...
Snapchat ‘Discover’ Feature Explodes [new data] George March 3, 2015 Snapchat So I am pretty surprised about the Snapchat Discover feature in general. I mean bite-size news is all well and good, but I find it curious that Snapchat's key demographic of under-20s wants to consume these...
Apple Posts Another Blockbuster Quarter George February 5, 2015 Apple, Insights Apple's march forward to world domination isn't slowing down. Let's check out their last quarter in terms of top level numbers ... Note: All numbers refer to the quarter ending Dec. 27, unless otherwise...