How to Build an App

Strides Development

This is a podcast for first-time app founders to help them refine their idea, build an insanely useful app, scale it up, and change the world.

  1. Building Acorns, the Micro-investing Platform with Walter Cruttenden (Acorns)

    12/22/2021

    Building Acorns, the Micro-investing Platform with Walter Cruttenden (Acorns)

    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/

    39 min
  2. Hiring Faster and Smarter with Robb Lifferth (IsoTalent)

    12/15/2021

    Hiring Faster and Smarter with Robb Lifferth (IsoTalent)

    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/

    38 min
  3. Organic and Ad-Based Growth Tactics with Darius Mora (Reflectly)

    12/08/2021

    Organic and Ad-Based Growth Tactics with Darius Mora (Reflectly)

    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/

    44 min
5
out of 5
10 Ratings

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