Introduction (26 minutes)
  • Course Overview
  • Join our community on Slack!
  • 7 reasons to start a mobile app development business
  • The Sprintkick story
  • Section 1 review material
  • Review sheets & resources - all in one PDF
The Essentials (56 minutes)
  • The startup timeline
  • How does this work as a programmer / non programmer?
  • iOS versus Android
  • Native versus hybrid
  • Build yourself or contract?
  • In-house hiring or out of house?
  • In country or out of country?
  • Section 2 review material
Setting up your presence (65 minutes)
  • Focus on 80/20 solutions for your online presence
  • Looking at other studios
  • Going further in-depth looking at studios
  • Picking and configuring a template on Templatemonster
  • Picking and configuring a template on ThemeForest
  • Selecting a name
  • Advanced: Upgrade your presence with custom design
  • Section 3 review material
Finding subcontractors (66 minutes)
  • What makes a good long-term partner?
  • Intro to Elance
  • Intro to Elance 2
  • Intro to Upwork
  • Intro to Upwork 2
  • Intro to Freelancer
  • Finding freelancers elsewhere
  • Section 4 review material
Building a portfolio (22 minutes)
  • How important are portfolios?
  • Use these tricks to grow your portfolio faster
  • Thoughts about portfolios
  • Buying testimonials and case studies
  • Section 5 review material
Getting clients (71 minutes)
  • Strategy: Email scrape and blast
  • Strategy: Offer adjacent services to those hiring in-house
  • Strategy: Discount offers to groups
  • Strategy: Use your affiliations
  • Strategy: Tag your work
  • Strategy: Sell things that require maintenance
  • Strategy: This sucks let me fix it
  • Strategy: The perpetual discount
  • Strategy: Build something and give it away
  • Strategy: Making tutorials strategy
  • Section 6 review material
Building proposals (79 minutes)
  • Our technique, in-depth costs of everything
  • Types of proposals
  • Components of proposals
  • Tools for getting proposals done faster
  • How much do you customize?
  • Ballpark estimate versus exacto
  • Strategy: Introduce ideas and see if they stick
  • Section 7 review material
Managing clients (64 minutes)
  • Keeping the right distance
  • Confidence is key
  • Just enough jargon
  • Sniffing out their budget
  • Speed is important
  • Client budgets and the difference they make
  • Do you deliver what's good or what the client likes?
  • Don't talk about problems, say what's happening
  • Is the client always right?
  • Section 8 review material
Best Practices (102 minutes)
  • Should you submit the app for your client?
  • Under promise, over deliver
  • What is agile? Should I use it?
  • Price per project, price per hour
  • Should you worry about competition?
  • Hedging your launch date
  • Beautiful design makes beautiful development
  • Running without contracts
  • Red flags for bad clients
  • Rich clients versus successful clients
  • Tell when you're getting fizzled
  • Don't quote off the top of your head
  • Meeting in person
  • Is there a benefit to delivering early?
  • Repeat customers are the best
  • Avoid assumers
  • Section 9 review material
Internal management is crucial (44 minutes)
  • Intro to Asana
  • Getting more in-depth with Asana
  • Making Asana work for you
  • Turning Asana inside out
  • Section 10 review material
Free documents & resources
  • Our $4k NDA. Yours free.
  • Our standard Development Contract Template
Bonus Section