I am a designer who lives in code, entrepreneur, and an idea incubator driven to make our world a better place.
His name: Christian Owens. His age: 16. He made his first million dollars in two years, “inspired by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs”. This is how he did it.
Reblogged from soupsoup
Currently there’s a race to the top (or bottom depending on how you view it) to churn out a large quantity of iPhone/iPad apps at cheap prices to break into the top downloads. Rather than focusing on how to break into the top downloads iTeleport worked to maintain their quality and kept their app at a premium price of $25.
How did we get here? We believe it’s a combination of creating a high quality product with great support in a well-defined market with significant demand. This doesn’t sound too different from classic definitions of how to develop a successful software business, and it’s not. … That, combined with offering something people really want, and are willing to pay a premium for if you give them distinctive, useful, hard-to-find features in return.
I’m blown away by the results that this video shows for selecting hair in Photoshop CS5. Between all of the new features Photoshop CS5, After Effects CS5 and Flash CS5 I’ll be upgrading my Master Collection to CS5 as soon as possible.
Reblogged from Andy Taylor
via Daring Fireball