Category : Entrepreneurship

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How Many Downloads Does It Take To Be In The Top 25 Apple Apps?

Approximately 38,400 for free apps and 3,500 for paid apps.

To rank in specific categories, this number varies based on competition. For instance Games are extremely popular and it takes approximately 25,000 free app downloads and 2,300 paid app downloads to be in the top 25 for Games.

Entertainment (7,000) – Social Networking (6,000) – Lifestyle (4,000).

It’s been said by some that these number could be a little on the low side, but they give you a good benchmark nonetheless for Apple App downloads in 2012 and how you can crack the top 25.

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Lessons Learned From Steve Jobs

As I’ve reflected on starting this personal site of mine for sometime now (I’ve owned the domain for five years), I’ve also been reflecting on taking a monumental step in my entrepreneurial career.

Guy Kawasaki shared some thoughts on lessons learned from Steve Jobs that immensely helped in clarifying many of the thoughts I have had around this new, rather uncharted endeavor. They are:

  1. Don’t trust experts.
  2. Customers can never tell you what they need.
  3. Biggest challenges beget the best work.
  4. Design counts.
  5. Big graphics, big font.
  6. Jump curves – not better sameness (not 10% better, 10x better).
  7. Works or Doesn’t Work is all that matter.
  8. Value is different from price.
  9. A players hire A players. B players hire C players.
  10. Real CEOs demo.
  11. Real entrepreneurs ship.
  12. Some things need to be believed to be seen.
There is real wisdom in these words. Marinate on them, and watch the video.