An accessible step-by-step guide to building an app-based business—essential reading for anyone who has an idea for an app but is unsure of where to start 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. InHow to Build a Billion Dollar App serial tech entrepreneur George Berkowski—one of the minds behind the internationally successful taxi hailing app Hailo—gives you exclusive access to the secrets behind the success of the select group of apps that have achieved billion-dollar success. Berkowski draws exclusively on the inside stories of the billion-dollar app club members including Instagram Whatsapp Snapchat Candy Crush Square Viber Clash of Clans Angry Birds Uber and Flipboard to provide all the information you need to create your own spectacularly successful mobile business. He guides you through each step from an idea scribbled on the back of an envelope through to finding a cofounder building a team attracting (and keeping) millions of users all the way through to juggling the pressures of being CEO of a billion-dollar company (and still staying ahead of the competition). If youve ever dreamed of quitting your nine to five job to launch your own company or youre a gifted developer seasoned entrepreneur or just intrigued by mobile technology How to Build a Billion Dollar App will show you what itreally takes to create your own billion-dollar mobile business.