Google Downloads Soaring but Apple makes the money … George February 3, 2015 Audience Building, ecommerce, Google Downloads still aren't translating to dollars for Google and developers who create applications for its Play store for Android devices, as Apple's iOS App Store remains far and away the most profitable digital...
How many smartphones and mobile users are out there? George January 27, 2015 Insights, Research 1 Comment I really like this post from Benedict Evans over at A16Z. It's fascinating to think how quickly the mobile user landscape is changing ~ and that means you really need to get your head around where the numbers...
How to Get More Instagram Likes and Comments George January 8, 2015 Insights, Instagram Long live Instagram! In the world of social media, the status of our popularity lives and dies by likes and comments. Such is the case for the photo-sharing app, Instagram. While it may sound simplistic and...
If you’re looking for a billion dollar idea check out this chart … George December 27, 2014 Billion Dollar Apps, Insights, Research So I love this chart, it's basically a version of the 67 Human Universals that I write about in 'How to Build a Billion Dollar App'. I still believe that we're very much in the age of...
$40 billion app: What another $1 billion in the bank means for Uber George December 4, 2014 Funding, Uber Uber wants to be the world’s private driving service. Now the company is amassing the war chest to do it. The start-up closed a new $1.2 billion round of financing on Thursday, with investors valuing the...
Snapchat exploding in India, Fastest Growing App in the World George December 4, 2014 Insights, Snapchat Even as Facebook, predominantly, continues to be the world’s largest social network and by that argument is the most used app today, Snapchat is the fastest growing app in the world, up by 56 per cent this...
5 Financing Tips for founders that give you power and control George November 20, 2014 Insights, Legal In the first half of this year, the level of venture-capital investment hit its highest quarterly mark since Q2 2001. Big M&A deals like WhatsApp, Oculus and Zillow have become prolific. And more and more...
FHM – Apps are all Things to All Men – November 2014 George November 9, 2014 Billion Dollar Apps, Book, Insights It was great to be featured in FHM Magazine this month... Unfortunately the article is only on paper online ... so apologies for the...
George Berkowski Q&A: FutureBook keynote George November 9, 2014 Communications, ecommerce, Insights, Management This piece appeared on theBookSeller.com --- George Berkowski is a former rocket scientist turned app developer turned serial digital entrepreneur. In this Q&A, ahead of his keynote speech at...
Billion Dollar Startups in Stockholm George November 9, 2014 Billion Dollar Apps, Insights According to venture firm Atomico, Stockholm has Europe's largest collection of billion dollar startups. The firm did a rather rigorous analysis of all the startups launched after 2003 with a valuation of at...