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George Berkowski is an entrepreneur, MIT rocket scientist, product designer and startup lover. He is the author of the new book 'How to Build a Billion Dollar App'.

Kevin Systrom – Founder and CEO, Instagram

George
January 3, 2014
Billion Dollar Apps, Founder Interviews, Insights, Instagram, Photography
Kevin Rose interviews the CEO of Instagram. Very candid and insightful interview....

Flipboard raises a $100 million round at an $800 million valuation

George
December 22, 2013
Flipboard
Flipboard is inching ever closer to the billion-dollar club. Today they confirmed they had raised an additional $50 million, bringing their Series C financing total to $100 million. This closes the funding...

Evan Spiegal – CEO of Snapchat (and how he plans to make money)

George
October 27, 2013
Billion Dollar Apps, Communications, Founder Interviews, Insights, Snapchat
Evan talks about how Snapchat will make money at Techcrunch Disrupt, San Francisco...

Nice: Supercell now worth $3.1 billion thanks to Softbank investment

George
October 21, 2013
Supercell
Today SoftBank paid $1.5 billion for a 51% stake in Finnish mobile games maker Supercell, the maker of 'Clash of Clans' and 'Hay Day'. Not bad for a company with 100 people and just two active...

Uber breaks into the Billion Dollar Club with Style

George
August 23, 2013
Uber
It seems that Travis Kalancik has really been busy. His uber-fast growing transportation app has raised $258 million from private equity giant TPG and Google Ventures. According to a Delaware filing the...

The Mobile Money Shot

George
June 25, 2013
Audience Building, Billion Dollar Apps, Facebook, Instagram
I have to recommend this great piece by Kara Swisher in Vanity Fair. Unlike the tech magazines and blogs, VF is able to really dig deep into the story behind the world's first Billion Dollar App. The sale of...

Waze Millionaires – How Much Did They All Make?

George
June 23, 2013
Waze
You don't often find out how much founders make from the sale of their apps - so it's all the more fun when you do the digging and find out. Waze has been called the most lucrative technology startup and app...

Waze breaks into the Billion Dollar App Club

George
June 11, 2013
Audience Building, Google, Waze
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Some journeys definitely do take a long time - Waze - the Israeli social-mapping app took a good 7 years to make it there. Today Google announced that they would be acquiring the company for $1.1 billion. The...
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How to Build a Billion Dollar App takes a comprehensive look at how the world's top apps reached billion-dollar valuations. Read what people are saying about the book.

About the Author

George Berkowski is an entrepreneur, MIT Rocket Scientist, product guy and lover of apps.

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