James Setzer is the founder at DreamBuilders Simple Solutions. We talk about the movement and how we can all do better when it comes to racial equality.

Listen to part 1 on the App Masters Podcast where James shares how he finds profitable app ideas and positions them in a competitive market. Plus two strategies that I absolutely love: 1) how he uses giveaways to get his initial downloads and ratings; 2) how he studies the newest, top grossing apps to see what they are doing right.

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Chuka Ikokwu is the Founder & CEO at Divercity.io. His main focus is on closing the diversity and inclusion gap in tech.

Chuka earned his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Science with honors (~4.0) from the University of Texas at Arlington and is also SAP Certified. 

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Diane and Kevin Hamilton are the founders of Binary Formations, a family run software design and development company based in Virginia. The company was founded with one goal in mind: To build software that solves a problem in our everyday lives with the hope that others would find it useful in theirs as well.

They released our first app, Home Inventory, for the Mac in 2005 and it remains our flagship app. In the years since, it has grown a sizable following, garnered rave reviews, and was chosen by Apple as Mac App Store Best of 2013 and Editor’s Choice picks. They also produce the iOS chore tracking app, Chore-inator (a Macworld 2014 Best of Show winner), Too Phat (a visual weight loss app for iOS), My Reasons (an innovative way to help you build good habits available for the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Watch), and Adam Learns Shapes and Colors (an iPad app for teaching children basic shapes and colors).

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Steve O’Hear (@sohear) is best known as a technology journalist, currently at TechCrunch where he focuses on European startups, companies and products.

In June 2011, Steve took a break from journalism to co-found the London and Prague-based startup Beepl. In his role as CEO, he helped the company raise its first VC round, along with seeing the Question & Answer site through development, private alpha and a high profile public launch. In November 2012, Beepl was acquired by Brand Embassy.

He also wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Silicon Valley documentary ‘In Search of the Valley‘, which was released in September 2006.

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Akhil Chandra is a mobile app entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of Studio Mosaic - an award-winning app marketing and growth agency that has consistently been ranked amongst the Top App Marketing Agencies in the world. He has been recently recognized as one of the "25 Most Influential Mobile Marketing Leaders" and "100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders" by CMO Asia and the World Marketing Congress.

He also runs Epiphany Labs - a self-funded, fully independent app publishing studio that has created StickMe Notes, Dictate4Me and a few other apps in the productivity and business category that have been downloaded over 1 million times on the Apple Appstore, purely through organic and search-oriented methods.

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Suze Yalof Schwartz (@suzeyalofschwartz) is the CEO and Founder of Unplug Meditation, the Unplug Meditation App and Unplug the book.

Unplug Meditation is the first drop in modern meditation studio in the world. Classes are 30 to 40 minutes long. Unplug has been featured in the NY Times, LA Times, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fast Company and more.

Prior to Unplug Meditation Suze worked at Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle and Glamour Magazine where she was the Executive Fashion Editor at Large.

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At the intersection of technology, entertainment, and venture capital, Mariah Lichtenstern addresses social, economic, and environmental equity through entrepreneurship. 

Mariah is the Founding Partner of DiverseCity Ventures and Managing Director of the Founder Institute, Sacramento Chapter. She is a member of UCLA Ventures, and serves as an advisor for CalSEED CleanTech Fund, Berkeley SkyDeck, and Village Capital Finance Forward US 2019.

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Rupert Meghnot, Chief Experience Officer for BGV, was first introduced to game development in 1996 (his first VR project was in 1992). He's since overseen the creation of dozens of titles, on multiple platforms. Recently, he taught project management at Full Sail's Game Design Masters degree program, for 6+ years - his former students of which have managed $billions in-game IP. Other successful endeavors included motion simulation, defense and bleeding-edge tech R&D.

His current enterprise, Burnout Game Ventures, mentors, manages and motivates aspiring video game entrepreneurs to generate ROI in six months or less. BGV has released 11 products on 7 platforms, has a 600+ person talent pool - with 90+ people working on another 16 products for 7 startups, and offers dozens of the top Advisors in the industry. BGV intends to transform the $140 billion video game industry into a more successful environment for indie developers, players, and investors, alike.

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Jorge Diaz is a serial entrepreneur, digital marketer, and product strategist. He created 1App - app targeting the Latin American market and reaching more than 300,000 people and generating 1.5 million clicks to free apps in 1 year.

We talk about how he decides to start new businesses and how much time he gives it before he moves on to a new business.

Plus, why mindset is your biggest hurdle as an entrepreneur.

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- Software Como Servicio

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David Tao is the Co-Founder and Editor of BarBend, a media brand that provides multi-platform coverage of news, analysis, training, and opinion in strength training and sports. One of the largest and fastest-growing fitness sites on the web, BarBend is the Official Media Partner of USA Weightlifting and is also a partner broadcaster for the 2019 Reebok CrossFit Games.

David is a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list maker for Media. A veteran of the health & fitness industry, he has nearly a decade of experience building and running editorial teams in the space.

At the end of the episode, we play weightlifting anagrams.

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