ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: How to build a Billion Dollar app? | George Berkowski | TEDxCityUniversityLondon

ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: How to build a Billion Dollar app? | George Berkowski | TEDxCityUniversityLondon

Here’s Great Tip: How to build a Billion Dollar app? | George Berkowski | TEDxCityUniversityLondon


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Apps have changed the way we communicate, shop, play, interact and travel and their phenomenal popularity has presented possibly the biggest business opportunity in history. George gives you exclusive access to the secrets behind the success of the select group of apps that have achieved billion-dollar success.

George Berkowski is an entrepreneur who has built businesses in manned space flight, online dating, transportation and mobile apps. His new venture is IceCream ~ a Camera app that never runs out space (and a lot more fun features).

He is one of the minds behind the internationally successful taxi hailing app Hailo where he led the product team until September 2013. George studied rocket science and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and business at the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. He was Chairman of MIT’s Enterprise Forum in the UK and is heavily involved in the UK and US startup scenes. George now divides his time between London and Silicon Valley.

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30 Replies to “ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: How to build a Billion Dollar app? | George Berkowski | TEDxCityUniversityLondon”

  1. People…. Tedx is independently organised by local communities. Of course video and audio quality is going to vary GREATLY depending on the location. I would almost guarantee that the team capturing the event is volunteer and therefore most likely fairly untrained. 99% of the time people only care that you have touched a camera or microphone at least once in your life for them to ask you to video/record events for them. "Billy has a camera, why can't he just film it for us?" Because Billy is 10 and hasn't had the necessary experience to do a good job. Its the same with many professional industries, money saved > quality. Trained, professional technicians would cost additional money, most of which is likely being used to primarily account for the speaker. I am also confounded by how important stereo sound is to people. This isn't a feature film with a dynamic range of frequencies and beautifully mixed dialog and score, its a Tedx talk. If you don't have the mental capacities to handle a mono signal why are you even watching (supposedly highly intellectual) videos like Ted talks??

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