How to Build an App

Welcome back to How to Build an App!Over the past year, we have organized and collected the most common questions that we get asked. During today's episode, you will get the answer to at least the following questions. How long does it take to build an app?What language should I use to build an app?How much does it cost to build an app?When am I ready to start developing my app?This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency.We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months.If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you’re following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/ 

Welcome back to How to Build an App!Building an app has never been easier than it is today. The app industry is shifting away from code and beginning to shift more to no-code solutions. In today's episode, we talk with the CEO and founder David Adkin to tell us how the industry is shifting. ---Learn more about Adalo here: https://www.adalo.com/---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency.We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months.If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you’re following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/ 

Welcome back to How to Build an App!Marketing is a major pillar across every space, if you are not marketing now you will start very soon. Posting social content is one of the many ways to find and reach a wider audience for your target demographic.  It also allows you to build a community of loyal followers and find new supporters. Chances are you will need to post social content, and in doing so you will find that managing content across teams and social platforms is a huge challenge for many companies. We brought on Thibaud Clément on the show to tell us about his product Loomly. ---Learn more about Loomly here: https://www.loomly.com/---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency.We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months.If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you’re following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/ 

Welcome back to How to Build an App!In today's episode, you will learn whether or not technology is the most important part of building a tech company. You might be surprised by the answer!Today Sai Krishna the founder and CEO of Scapic will be joining us.  Scapic is meant to be the simplest way you create, share and explore AR, VR & 3D experiences.---Learn more about Scapic herehttps://www.scapic.com/---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency.We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months.If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you’re following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/ 

Welcome back to How To Build An App!This week, we’ve brought Walter Cruttenden, the co-founder of Acorns onto the show!I feel like everyone’s heard of Acorns, but if you haven’t, it’s a micro-investing platform that allows users to set up automated investments through round-ups.Basically Acorns rounds up a debit or credit card purchase to the nearest dollar and invests the change for you automatically.It’s a super cool platform that’s helped A LOT of people save money and get into investing, and Walter is going to tell us all about how it came to be!In this episode, you’ll get to hear the Acorn's backstory and how Walter and his son built the company and scaled it up.We’ll talk about the challenges they had to overcome, breakthroughs they made, ups and downs, failures and successes, tidbits of advice for new founders and everything in between.---Learn more about Walters different ventures here:https://www.acorns.com/ https://www.learnandearn.com/ https://blast.com/ https://atm.com/ Follow Walter on LinkedIn here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/walter-cruttenden-58097b34/ ---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you’re following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/ 

Welcome back to How to Build an App!As a founder, there will come a time where you have to start bringing more people onto your team.Whether it’s finding a co-founder, bringing on a developer, or hiring a development shop, you can’t do this alone.We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again, there is no one person who can strategize, concept, design, build, develop, test, AND launch your app.Chances are, you’ll have to go through the hiring process several times, especially if you’re looking to scale up.So how do you go about finding the right fit for your team?We brought Robb Lifferth on the show this week to deliver some great pointers!Robb is the co-founder and COO of IsoTalent, a technology enabled recruiting service with a 95% retention rate (15% higher than industry standard).IsoTalent helps companies hire faster and smarter, and reduces the average recruiting cost per hire by over 75%.Basically, it’s their job to find the best fit for each company with speed and efficiency.In this episode, Robb breaks down the challenges of the hiring process, and some important things to keep in mind so that you’re hiring the best candidates for your startup.---Learn more about IsoTalent here: https://www.isotalent.com/ Follow Robb on LinkedIn here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/robblifferth/ ---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you’re following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/ 

Welcome back to How To Build An App!Today’s episode may be a little shorter than usual, but it packs a punch!We got together with Darius Mora, the Chief Marketing Officer of the app Reflectly.If you haven’t heard much about it, Reflectly is an AI journaling app that has gained tens of millions of users and seen massive growth over the last 3 years.Not only is it the world’s biggest journaling app, Reflectly also won the Google Design Award for Innovation and is consistently in the top 10 Health & Fitness iOS apps in the US. So how did a simple, one-feature journaling app find this level of success?In this week’s episode of How to Build an App, you’ll get the inside scoop with some great takeaways for your own app startup.Stick around for an info-packed discussion of several different marketing strategies for organic AND ad-based growth intermixed with Darius’s wealth of knowledge and experience in high conversion marketing. ---Learn more about Reflectly here: https://reflectly.app/ Follow Darius on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@darius.mora?lang=en Follow Darius on LinkedIn here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/moravcik/?originalSubdomain=pt Subscribe to Darius’s Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfaxmVZDN-hqV6HfMbcCOwA ---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you’re following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/ 

Welcome back to How To Build An App!As much as we’d all love a step by step roadmap as entrepreneurs, there is no exact formula. There’s no exact formula for building a successful startup, or a company that you can have a successful exit from. Being an entrepreneur is unpredictable and you have to be ready to forge your own way and solve problems that you won’t find the answers to on google.This week’s episode is all about breaking the mold and forging your own path to success.Our guest this week is Scott Paul, a repeat startup founder, angel investor, youtuber, and self-proclaimed hairfluencer!Having already founded 5 companies, Scott wanted to get in on helping to fund and mentor new founders, so they started HyperActive, seed capital for fellow founders. Since then, they’ve invested in over 65 startups, primarily in tech.We’ve quickly learned that an experience with Scott is always out of the box and against the grain—just how they like it.As Scott says, “Out of chaos comes greatness.”In this episode Scott shares the hard truth of being an entrepreneur and the mentality you need to succeed.---Learn more about Wooly here: https://www.wooly.com/ Learn more about HyperActive here: https://hyperactivecap.com/ Follow Scott on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottpaul2/ Follow Scott on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/scottycoin ---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you’re following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/

Welcome back to How To Build An App!This week, we’ve got John Mayfield on the show with us.He’s the founder of a venture capital firm called Album VC, that invests in early-stage tech ventures.They’ve invested in over 80 companies and have grown to the point that their average investment is $1.5 million.You might recognize some of the big names they’ve worked with here in Utah, like Podium, Homie, and Divvy—which just sold for $2.5 billion by the way.You’re about to get a whole bunch of dating advice from John.And by dating advice, we mean advice on how to secure early-stage funding which is a process John relates to dating.Finding an investor isn’t just a one and done deal where they write a check and you‘re done with them.It’s a partnership that will go on for years, so you’ve got to make sure your vision is aligned, that you work well together, and things click.In this episode, John dives into the “courtship” process of finding an investor.He’s got some great insight on the do’s and don’ts of approaching investors, what will make you stick out as a founder, and what working with investors actually looks like. ---Learn more about Album VC here: https://www.album.vc/ Follow Harlan on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmayfield/# ---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you’re following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/