We recently had the opportunity to speak with Charles Yim about the ground-breaking appearance on Sharktank—the first time that all five “sharks” invested in a single entrepreneur.

There’s a silver lining in everything. Learn from your mistakes (or in this case, learn from someone else’s).

Aside from making sure you have a marketable, moneymaking, scalable idea, beginning your startup takes managing your own finances to make sure at the end of the day you won’t…

Having a technical co-founder is great if you can find one, but it should not stand in the way of building your startup. Waiting on someone that might not show up could stunt your growth.

App store optimization (ASO) is a crucial element to ensure your mobile app ranks highly in the app store’s search results. Here are 5 tips to get found.

Mobile app development is more expensive, time- and money-wise, than developing web apps or mobile websites.

The mobile app market is exploding — and that’s putting it mildly. Gartner says less than 0.01 percent of consumer mobile apps will be considered a financial success by their…

For any non-technical entrepreneur, there’s a high probability that you’ve had a great idea that has fallen flat because you didn’t know where to get started. Chances are that when…

The world is being reshaped by a rising culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. Citing recent Kauffman Foundation research sharing demographic insight into startup innovation, Forbes says “Startup incubators and accelerators…

When the ThinkApps team hit last week’s SF Pitchmasters meetup, we knew we’d hear some good stories from startup founders looking to build teams and find funding for their “next…

iOS vs Android — the defining battle of the mobile age. Here’s some advice on iOS vs Android development. (Or should we say Android vs iOS development?)

So you’ve built a mobile app. Now thousands of users will automatically rush to download your app, give it high ratings, and tell everyone else to download it. Right? Not…

App publishers/developers face an uphill battle of promoting their apps in an increasingly saturated app marketplace. This point is echoed by Distimo’s 2013 report that only 2% of the top 250 publishers…

If you don’t have the budget for widespread ads (or any ads, as the case may be) you need to figure out how to market your app for free. You’ll…

Here are the pros and cons of all the top app monetization strategies, including free vs paid apps, freemium vs premium, in-app purchases and subscriptions.

EasyBiz Mileage Tracker & Vehicle Expense Log launched in January, 2014 for IOS & Android and since has accumulated over 37,000 downloads.   I recently launched EasyBiz Plus (premium version), which…

In this guest post, Leon Barnard, a designer at Balsamiq Studios, shares advice for creating effective wireframes. Even with modern software development methodologies (such as agile software development) the road to building…

In today’s shifting tech landscape, the profession of developers is becoming increasingly crucial. They are both growth hackers and architects of the software future. Given the demand for skilled developers…

Every app entrepreneur faces the challenge of how to gain users once their app is built. Lucky for you we have some little known secrets that can help you increase…

Do you have a creative app idea in mind right now? Is it a unique idea that you don’t see on Google Play or the App Store? Do you think…

Without including analytics in your mobile or web app, you are running blind. You can only guess, but not find issues with user experience or fix them. All too often we…

Mobile Application Performance Management, or mAPM for short, is a solution that can be used pre and post launch to monitor the health of one’s mobile app. It provides key…

Mobile Application Performance Management (mAPM) is a critical component to any successful app. It doesn’t matter if you are the CTO of a Fortune 500 company or building an app…

You may have heard that you can do it yourself. Or, that you need to hire someone with a background in Objective-C. Or Java. You might not know if your…