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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How to Build a World Beating App George September 26, 2014 Audience Building, Billion Dollar Apps, Insights, Management This article originally appeared in WIRED Magazine. Your app idea might not beat WhatsApp's $19bn valuation, but George Berkowski, former head of product at Hailo, sees plenty of opportunities. "We're all...
The Billion Dollar App Club George July 1, 2014 Billion Dollar Apps The Billion Dollar App club is even more selective than the Wall Street Journal's Billion Dollar Startup club, and frankly it's proving to be even more lucrative.I've compiled this...
That’s one Uber Valuation: $18.2 billion George June 6, 2014 Billion Dollar Apps, ecommerce, Funding, Uber 1 Comment Uber Technologies Inc.'s whopping valuation of $18.2 billion is a bet by some of the world's top investors that the car-hailing smartphone app can grow by expanding world-wide and branching into new arenas,...