Christian Rouffaert is a Digital Entrepreneur, London, working in Information Technology and Services. Discover a viable alternative to putting rubbish ads in your beautiful apps. Get paid to provide valuable data to the large telco companies. It's GENIUS and a must listen to episode for all small teams of developers or solo Appreneurs.

Resources: Website / Twitter  / Linkedin 

1. Ad networks are cumbersome for app developers because of the time intensity to manage them, the SDK integration, the ad blockers and the lack of guarantees over getting paid
2. You can make money from your app selling user data to big telecoms corporations (instead of frustrating ads)
3. The life of a 9-5 corporate employee can be equated to a lab hamster (trended #1 on Reddit) 

Alex Austin CEO/Software engineer at Branch Metrics. Alex takes us through his journey. It starts from building lots of apps and desperately seeking downloads, such as a photo printing app, and ends in building an internal product to cope with deep linking challenges which ultimately has led to the extremely successful Branch. It wasn't an easy journey, with lots of 3 am alerts to cope with server issues.

Resources: Website  / Linkedin 

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1. Starting a startup is a case of 'showing up' every day and figuring it out
2. Success is finding an interesting problem - yet to be solved
3. If you are lucky enough to get traction, expect the biggest challenges to be hiring and scaling 

Benjamin Yee, Founder of EMERGE App has followed a different path, but one which I think is truly inspirational. If only I heard stories like this before leaving myself for University and then following the standard corporate path.

Ben has:

• never worked in a corporate 9-5
• never been to University
• never had a boss

However, he's running his own successful startup focussing on helping small business owners and solo entrepreneurs like us.

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Resources: Website  / Linkedin + Wechat

1. You don't need a University Degree or past Corporate Career to succeed with a tech startup
2. Living in an expensive city is possible as a startup founder - you simply need to be very mindful of your outgoings and make sacrifices (where possible)
3. Find a second income, if possible, to subsidize everything else, so you can continue to work on your dream. 

An app that is changing the way we give money. Listen to what it's like to have an appreneur life filled with a purpose to help change the world for the better. 

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1. Going to a private school and being privileged doesn’t mean you have to follow the standard path into a well paid career. You can still live a purpose driven life doing something completely unexpected by your parents and peers
2. If you live in a First World country (US, UK), you typically have no idea what extreme poverty looks like. It's just like a completely different planet
3. Start with a real passion to turn your app into something that’ll make a real impact. Gret's app provides funding to people in need living overseas and also changes the way people in the first world see how they are making an impact

Ted Fifelski Founder of Gane.io talks us through the opportunity in financial services. At Gane.io, Ted's built a brilliant team of experts in both fintech and mobile which has resulted in a unique mobile wallet solution.

Resources: Gane Website / Twitter  

1. If you are going to be a tech entrepreneur, you really need to know yourself, know your strengths and know what makes you tick
2. To achieve the results you desire, it's essential to add real value to the consumer experience
3. The biggest challenge in your startup could be YOU. In everything you do for your startup, the core should be built around the authentic YOU.

Martijn de Kuijper Founder of Revue talks to us about his rocket fuelled Product Hunt launch which attracted over 1,100 upvotes on Product Hunt. Martijn shares with us his story of the ups and downs of being a maker.

Resources: GetRevue Website / Martin's Twitter  + Linkedin 

1. Any side project has the potential to become a real and successful startup
2. Talk to potential customers before building
3. Here are the top 10 things learned when building Revue which Martijn and I co-authored and was featured on WebDesignerDepot [a website with almost 1 million monthly visits]

Chris Savage Founder and CEO of the video marketing platform Wistia. Chris inspires us about his dream come true: 

having the opportunity to work alongside his friend from University to build a company.

Resources: Website / Twitter  / Linkedin 

• Working alongside your startup co-founder who is happens to be your best friend from University is fun, FUN, FUN!
• Becoming your own customer is a great way to improve your product
• A successful startup takes many years and lots of persistence. In the case of Chris's startup, he slowly reached about 30 customers over 3 years, but this was followed by a breakout resulting in a rapid climb to 500 customers. 

Dmitry Dragilev., founder of JustReachOut.io Dmitry single handedly grew a startup from 0 to 40M+ pageviews through PR and got acquired by Google a few years back. He has published 1300+ articles in press and has written guest articles for most major tech publications. He currently runs a PR SaaS called JustReachOut and PR coaching course PRThatConverts currently used by 3500+ entrepreneurs and startups to find and pitch journalists without the help of PR firms. 

Resources: Website / Twitter  / Linkedin 

Extra resources: 

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2015/02/21/took-startup-0-40m-pageviews-got-acquired-google/
http://www.criminallyprolific.com/press/
https://justreachout.io/
http://prthatconverts.com/

• A good way to reach out to a tech journalist is find a way to add value and start a conversation before pitching anything
• The wrong way to reach out to an influencer is simply emailing something like: "He John, I have a new app launching and..."
• What journalists want to receive in an email: something that’s less than 200 words; subject line less than 65 characters. No PR releases, no attached stuff to it and into the inbox around 8 AM

James Eder Founder & Chief Collision Creator @ Causr.co . James recently launched his app startup, but he already has a user who has generated over $500,000 in business as a result of using his app CAUSR. James is seeking a tech co-founder. Can you help?

Resources: Website / Twitter  / Linkedin 

• Remember, people do business with people
• A clever way to launch an app. (1) Build a quick web app, get lots of feedback and ask questions. (2) Find relevant communities in places like LinkedIn groups. (3) Build the app based on what you learned from your beta test and launch it to your own audience you've built during the testing phase
• Networking through an app is best when the people you want to meet are nearby and the purpose of you nextworking is put into context.

Vivek Chugh, Founder of Listables walks us through his appreneur journey. Leaving a successful career at Zynga, Vivek devotes himself to his app idea. Listables is a collaborative checklist app built on the back of community. Learn from this inspiring entrepreneur as he talks us through the ups and downs over his 18 month app startup. 

Resources: Website / Twitter  / Linkedin / Entrepreneur.com Article (app formerly known as OneHive)

• You can bootstrap your app startup if you simply "put your mind to it"
• Managing costs is essential when you are bootstrapping 
• Finding clever ways to partner with big brands or (in this case) a well known charity can give you much needed exposure outside of the app store