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The App Startup Show - Digiruu30 - From An MVP On Whatsapp To 7 Million Users Worldwide Solving The Climate Crisis, Meet Saasha Celestial-One - Co-Founder of OlioYup - you read that title correctly! Saasha Celestial-One, who is one of the most talented entrepreneurs I’ve ever had the pleasure of speaking with, created an MVP for her business, Olio, on Whatsapp. Fast forward to now, they have their own with over 7 million users worldwide, and secured a Series B investment of $43 million dollars! For those of you who don’t know, Olio is a sharing app for local communities, from food, furniture, books, clothing - anything, making it easy to give away the things they don’t need to someone else who would value them. You’ve...
2023-11-1340 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu29 - Build Your MVP With No Coding Experience In Rapid Time, From Nanxi Liu - Founder of BlazeBuilding your first app or digital product can seem super daunting, but it doesn’t have to be hard. I’ve always wanted someone on the podcast to talk about a no-code solution, and I’m thrilled to say we’ve got one of the best entrepreneurs in the world to talk about her amazing no-code platform, Blaze. Blaze gives you everything you need to build your tool with no code. You can create multiple apps with Blaze and easily connect them together. This is a game change for anyone looking to build their first MVP, and I highly recommen...
2023-11-0638 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu28 - How To Take The Travel Industry By Storm, From Samantha Patil - Founder Of Well TraveledIf you’re looking to build a travel app, look no further! Introducing Samatha Patil from the Well Traveled Club, a members-only community app that provides users with the best restaurants, hotels and activities around the world, so they don't have to! Travel apps have become super popular in the App Store and Google Play Store over the last few years and that is not looking to slow down. If you have a great idea for a travel app, I highly recommend that you listen and take notes!
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2023-10-3040 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu27 - What Makes A Great App Design? From Mustafa Kurtuldu - Product Designer at MetaOn this episode, we have a mind-blowing guest on. He is one of the Product Designers at Meta (more commonly known as Facebook), previously the product designer at Twitter and Google amongst more. You may have seen some of his videos on TikTok and Instagram. Introducing Mustafa Kurtuldu. He takes us through what it takes to make a great app design, the biggest mistakes companies make when it comes to app UI and UX and what the best approach is to great product design. Trust me - you don’t know wanna miss this!
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2023-10-2356 min
...𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗴. 𝗔 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁Episode 57 - Aman Birdi - CEO DigiruuChris Simmance, The Agency Accelerator, speaks with Aman Birdi, founder of a mobile app development company, DigiRoo. In this insightful conversation, Aman shares his journey of building a successful digital agency, overcoming challenges, and the importance of thinking long-term. He discusses the significance of building a lead generation system, the transformational impact it had on their business, and the value of strategic planning. This episode offers valuable lessons for digital agency owners and entrepreneurs looking to scale their businesses and navigate the ever-evolving digital landscape.
2023-04-1925 min
The App Startup Show - Digiruu26 - Building A £4 Billion Company From Zero, Meet Joe Foster - Founder of ReebokGet “Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became a Global Brand Hardcover” here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shoemaker-Reebok-Untold-Lancashire-Changed/dp/1471194019
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2022-05-3051 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu25 - How To Take A Customer-Centric Approach To Build A Prototype For Your App, From Helene Guillaume - Founder of Wild AiWant to learn more about Wild Ai? Visit https://wild.ai/
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Contact: aman@digiruu.com
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2022-05-2342 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu24 - How To Create The Perfect Team For Your App Startup From Ex-Google Staffing Manager, Jenny Collins - Founder of FIVE! PeopleWant to learn more about FIVE! People? Visit https://www.fivepeople.org/
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2022-05-1646 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu23 - From Nearly Dying to Founding The World’s First Carbon Negative Lift-Sharing App, Meet Greg Gormley - Founder of SkootWant to learn more about Skoot? Visit https://skoot.app/
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2022-05-0948 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu22 - How To Learn From Your Customers And Pivot Fast In A Startup, From David John - Founder of LoyalizeWant to learn more about Loyalize? Visit https://www.loyalize.ai/
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2022-05-0252 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu21 - Starting An Agency, Finding A Need And Building Her Own App To Meet That Need, Meet Elina Chow - Founder of JOTI’ll keep this little introduction short because this is an episode that you don’t want to miss. We’re kicking off the season with Elina Chow, founder of the app JOT, which is going to take your professional life to the next level! The timing couldn’t be more perfect with everything opening up due to Covid restrictions (hopefully!).
In this episode you’re going to learn about how you can start your own app from knowing a market very well and solving a problem within that market. Some of the most successful apps in the world...
2021-05-2444 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu20 - How An App Went Viral On Social Media To Produce 18 Million+ Downloads and Reach Number 1 In The App Store & Google Play Store - Meet Auburn and Simon of Randonautica18M+ downloads, #1 in the Travel apps category, #1 in Adventure & #1 in Simulation Games categories, trending everywhere with 700 million views & counting and finally #1 in Apple & Android Free Apps & Games - introducing Randonautica, the world's first quantumly generated “Choose Your Own Adventure” reality game. We speak to the COO, Auburn Salcedo, and one of the developers, Simon McCorkindale, behind the hit app which has one of the largest cult-like followings ever seen in the app world. Learn about their journey, how the app started and what you can learn to grow your app virally!
Randonautica is an app created to enco...
2020-11-2351 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu19 - How To Get People To Pay For Your App Without It Even Being Built First From Teresa Young - Founder of TrueKonnectTo build an online course requires a whole bunch of time, dedication, effort and resources. After building it, how would you feel if no one was interested in it? You would be pretty devastated right? But that’s exactly what happens to many entrepreneurs right now in the knowledge industry. In fact this happens to a lot of entrepreneurs in many industries. They build products that they think their audience want but in fact, don’t! The same applies with apps. People invest a whole bunch of time and resources into building apps that no one uses or wants, and...
2020-10-2048 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu18 - How A 10 Year Old Inspired An App With 150 Million Monthly Active Users, Meet Hovhannes Avoyan - Founder of PicsArtIf you’re looking to get into the app industry, you need to listen to this episode. I am unbelievably privileged to bring you this episode with one of the legends in the app world, Hovhannes Avoyan. He is often described as a serial entrepreneur, investor, scholar, AI expert, Harvard Business School graduate, speaker plus more. But to me, I would simply say genius.
He has more than 25 years of experience in business and has founded six startups, five of which have had successful acquisitions. The other one he’s currently serving as the CEO too, PicsArt - th...
2020-08-2428 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu17 - From Selling Bras To Co-Founding One Of The Most Successful Apps Of All Time, Meet Alexis Prenn - Founder of Receipt BankI am both thrilled and delighted to welcome you back to the App Startup Show - we took a little break due to Covid - and what better way to kick things back off with a man who has gone from selling bras to co-founding one of the most successful apps of all time, Receipt Bank. Meet Alexis Prenn. As he put it himself, there is almost nobody in technology who has ever worked in the business end of a factory. This is an entrepreneur who knows what productivity looks like.
With his co-founder, they wanted to...
2020-08-201h 15The App Startup Show - Digiruu16 - Using Data To Achieve 3X App Growth feat. Envision Digital founder - Josh LloydA lot of people and businesses for that matter want to go out and create their app and set aside x amount of money to go out and get it built. “Build it and they will come” - it’s something we’ve all heard a lot of the time right? Build that business and they will come. Build that app and they will come. And then they WAIT, for their future dream customers to come to them and download their app. This is great and everything, but unfortunately, they never “just” come. They may come in dribs and drabs, but t...
2020-03-3039 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu15 - How To Get Your App In Front Of The Right Eyes feat. Apptuitive founder - Carissa LintaoEveryone wants exposure with their apps. They want to get as many downloads as possible. But it’s not about that. You heard me - it’s not about getting the MOST downloads. It’s about getting the MOST downloads from the RIGHT people. That is how to succeed in the app game. But you must be wondering, how?
Today I have got one hell of an episode for you because today we speak with Carissa Lintao, founder of the US-based agency, Apptuitive. For those of you who have listened to the show from the start, you’ll recog...
2020-03-2342 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu14 - Visualising Success From 2X Olympian & Run Gum CEO, Nick SymmondsThis is the most profound and life-changing episode I’ve ever recorded. Honestly, you won’t be the same person after listening to this.
We’ve all heard it from time to time that if you want to be successful, you should be visualising your success. Picture yourself winning that business deal. See yourself building that app you’ve always wanted to build. Visualise yourself buying that house, driving that car, finding that dream partner - whatever it is, picture it. I know it sounds slightly out of the norm, but time and time again, I’ve found in m...
2020-03-161h 00The App Startup Show - Digiruu13 - Over 1 Billion Downloads And Selling To Apple For $400 Million, Meet Chris Barton - Founder of ShazamEver found yourself out in public, whether it’s in a nightclub or supermarket, and you hear a song and think, “wow I need this song in my life!”? You could ask someone if they knew what the song was, or you could do what over 150 million people do monthly which is to use an app on their phone to recognise that song. That app name? You guessed it - Shazam. We’re kicking off season 2 of the App Startup Show with a bang! We’re speaking with none other than Chris Barton, the founder one of the most successful...
2020-02-0345 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu12 - Going Beyond The Limit To Succeed feat. Nico Rosberg, 2016 Formula One (F1) World ChampionDo you know what the difference is between someone who succeeds and someone who doesn’t? A success mindset. Tony Robbins once said that success is 80% psychology and 20% skill, and that goes for anyone wanting to start their own business, including those of you wanting to launch your own app. To succeed in this game, you’re going to need a success mindset. And what better guest to have on the show, teaching you all about having the mindset to succeed, than none other than 2016 Formula One World Champion, Nico Rosberg.
It’s not often you get the op...
2019-12-0948 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu11 - Zero to $100 Million In Three years - Dave Woodward from ClickFunnels Teaches You How To Grow Your Business Using FunnelsWhen we talk about apps, sometimes it’s easy to forget that, actually, you’re not just creating an app - you’re creating a business. And what better person to offer advice on creating and growing your business than none other than Dave Woodward, the Chief Revenue and Business Development Officer for ClickFunnels - the fastest-growing, non-VC-backed, tech-startup in the world, growing from 0-100million dollars in just 3 years alone.
You’ll notice that it’s a bit more of a general episode rather than one being specific to apps, but the reason I wanted to share it w...
2019-11-1832 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu10 - From Making Simon Cowell Cry To 40,000 App Downloads...Meet Phil - Founder of SnoozleIn today's episode, we speak to Phil Neale, the founder of Snoozle, who’s had arguably one of the most fascinating journeys to getting his app started. His story to get where he has today is incredible. In fact, there are parts in the interview where I’m absolutely gobsmacked and speechless - you might just hear my jaw dropping from time to time! He’s honest, candid and trust me, you’ll definitely learn a lot from what he has to say.
Snoozle is the app that helps you feel great every morning, from the moment you wake...
2019-10-2848 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu9 - Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker, TV Star...Meet Piers LinneyI can’t even begin to describe how excited I am for you to listen to this episode, because we are privileged to have entrepreneur and investor, Piers Linney, join us to share with you his experience, insights and practical advice about starting your own business. We talk about his time on TV, notably on Dragons Den, and importantly his new course, #Startup with Piers Linney, for anyone wanting to start or grow a new business. The link to the course is below, where, as a dedicated listener to the show, you can get an exclusive 10% off the normal pr...
2019-10-2147 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu8 - Interview With Maya Gura, Co-founder and CEO of MissbeezIn today's episode we showcase an app success story, speaking to Maya Gura, the founder of the wildly successful app, Missbeez. Her story as an app founder is both fascinating and inspiring, and provides many lessons for anyone wanting to build their own app. I promise, you're going to love it.
Missbeez is a mobile application that was launched in 2015 to enable its users to book beauty and lifestyle services to their home or office 24/7. It connects busy women and self-employed, licensed and experienced beauty professionals. All of them are carefully selected and pre-approved in order to...
2019-08-0129 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu7 - When To Pursue An App Idea feat. Apptuitive founder - Carissa LintaoEveryone has an app idea, but when should you actually pursue that one idea you think could actually work? In this episode, we speak with Carissa Lintao of US-based agency, Apptuitive, about when to pursue an app idea. Carissa is an app strategist dedicated to providing innovative startups with common-sense marketing tactics and remarkable copy. She also writes about tech, social media, apps, and marketing.
Apptuitive are the honest marketers and product designers you didn't know you needed. They help every founder figure out what makes their app different and valuable. Once a value proposition is in p...
2019-08-0120 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu6 - A Crash Course in SEO and App Store Optimisation feat. SEO Genius, John Hutson of Climb OnlineIn this episode, we are privileged to have SEO genius, John Hutson of Climb Online, join us to give you his expert advice on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and specifically, App Store Optimisation i.e. how to get your app noticed in the shop window ahead of millions of apps in App Store. We discuss what SEO actually is and the things you can do to get started on optimising your app today for appearing at the top of search results.
Climb Online are a results-driven digital agency – unleashing the success and growth of businesses worldwide based in...
2019-08-0135 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu5 - Expert Advice for Marketing Your App feat. Dean Seddon, Maverrik Founder and Genius MarketerIn this episode, we are privileged to have marketing guru Dean Seddon of Maverrik join us to give you his expert advice on marketing and how you can start the process to get your app noticed by your audience. We discuss what “marketing” actually means, how much consideration you need to give to it and when to start putting things into action. This is one episode not to miss!
Maverrik is a growth and strategy consultancy that helps startups and SME’S build and execute plans to grow their business. Based in London, UK, their services include traini...
2019-08-0134 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu4 - How Important Is Branding For My App? Feat. Branding Expert Habib Patel of Discover Brand CreationIn this episode, Habib Patel of Discover Brand Creation joins us to dissect exactly what branding is and whether you need to consider it for your app. A lot of people tend to think of it as just the logo, or the name of a company, but here we break it down for you. We discuss the importance of branding, how much you need to invest in it and Habib gives his one piece of advice for entrepreneurs wanting to build an app.
Discover Brand Creation is a branding agency based in London, UK. Their services include...
2019-08-0143 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu3 - What Is UI (User Interface) / UX (User Experience)? Feat. Sam Lester of InktrapIn this episode, Sam Lester of Inktrap Ltd. joins us to dissect exactly what UI (user interface) and UX (user experience) are. A lot of people tend to think of them as just design, but it actually goes a bit deeper than that. We discuss the importance of UI/UX, how much you need to invest in it and Sam gives his one piece of advice for entrepreneurs wanting to build an app.
Inktrap is a digital product design studio based in London, UK. For over 4 years they have been helping people make brilliant digital products. Their...
2019-08-0124 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu2 - How Do You Build An App?"The key to successful, pain-free app development is having the right processes in place" Often I get asked, what’s the process of building an app? How do you get my idea from my head into a mobile app? In this episode, I’m going to give you our tried and tested method which has yielded great results to build an app. I’m super excited to share it with you in the hope that you’ll see why we are so awesome but importantly, the process needed to build an app.
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2019-08-0136 minThe App Startup Show - Digiruu1 - Introduction / Why The App Industry?Welcome to the first episode of the App Startup Show! I’m really excited for you guys because I’m going to be bombarding you with so much value in the upcoming episodes. I’ll be going through exactly what it takes to build an app right from the get-go of just having an idea in your head, plus also interviewing experts in the industry who will be providing you with the knowledge you need to get started, from design to branding, marketing and more. In this episode, we’re going to discuss why you should get into the app indu...
2019-08-0130 min