Novice No Longer Podcast: Escape Novice-dom And Build The Life You Want With Dann Berg

It’s a seemingly simple problem — tell the user what time it is in different countries around the world — with an endless number of solutions. There are a few questions you need to ask yourself before even touching pencil to paper: What’s the best way for humans to manipulate time? And really, what is time? SFCD […] The post 034 : The UX of time travel with SFCD Agency first appeared on Novice No Longer.

awake. head throbbing. vision blurry. So begins one of the most unique games to ever hit the App Store. What follows is an experience that takes the player through a dystopian world that starts with the simple gathering of wood and slowly grows in scope to places you’d never expect. Amir Rajan discovered the original web-based […] The post 033 : Bestselling indie games with A Dark Room's Amir Rajan first appeared on Novice No Longer.

What is one of the biggest mistakes made by aspiring app entrepreneurs? Confusing a product with a business. If you build and release an app, you’re selling a product. What happens when sales dwindle? Do you have a plan for sustainable revenue? Dan Counsell is the founder of Realmac Software, creators of applications such as RapidWeaver, […] The post 032 : Building an app business not just a product with Dan Counsell first appeared on Novice No Longer.

In 2011, Hunter Gray turned his app idea into the capital needed in order to get the product built. In this episode of the podcast, he shares exactly how he pitched his idea for the original version of Klutch to investors, and how the venture capital world has changed in just a few short years. […] The post 031 : How to raise money to fund your app with Hunter Gray first appeared on Novice No Longer.

It’s easy to look at somebody like Jeremy Olson and think, “wow, this guy came out of nowhere and just dominated the app scene!” His created his first app, Grades, while still in college, and it won him Apple’s prestigious Design Award in 2011. From there, he founded Tapity, an app development company that just […] The post 030 : A carefully crafted app launch with Jeremy Olson first appeared on Novice No Longer.

I was still working retail when I truly felt what it was like to be a novice. I was just starting the second chapter of a book on Objective-C (after two other books and a video course couldn’t help me) and the words were beginning to sound like gibberish. I just couldn’t make it any farther in my […] The post 029 : Novice No Longer goes back to apps first appeared on Novice No Longer.

Storytelling has been a part of the human experience since the beginning of history (one of the reasons that we even have history). Our brains are wired to respond to stories — whether it’s an urban legend told to us around a campfire as a child, or the tale of an obese man who lost weight with […] The post 028 : Better products through storytelling with Donna Lichaw first appeared on Novice No Longer.

The growth tactics you use when your company is just starting out are different from when the company is a few months old. They change even more as the company grows to handle more and more users. Applying the wrong growth tactics, at the wrong times, can be just as bad as not acting at all. […] The post 027 : Growth hacking Guides.co with Franco Varriano first appeared on Novice No Longer.

You have an idea for an app. Maybe you’ve even made some sketches or you have the full wireframes done. Now it’s time to hire a developer…but you don’t have any idea where to begin. In this episode of the podcast, I share exactly what you need to do to get an app in the […] The post 026 : How to hire a coder without learning code first appeared on Novice No Longer.

How many unread emails do you have in your inbox? If you went all the way back to the very oldest unread email, do you think you’d actually need it? If not, why is it still there? When are you going to do something about it? Email itself first came on the scene circa 1993, alongside Windows NT […] The post 025 : From Crash Bandicoot to a smarter inbox with Dave Baggett first appeared on Novice No Longer.

I first met Scott Britton when I took his in-person Skillshare class titled “30+ Life Hacks to have more money, time, energy, and well-being.” Since then, he’s built himself an empire, building his blog Life-Long Learner into an amazing resource for people wanting to build the life they want. On this week’s podcast, I talk […] The post 024 : Becoming a life-long learner with Scott Britton first appeared on Novice No Longer.

When I was talking to my friend Andrew about joining him to help co-found TripExpert, I was handed a big stack of legal papers to trudge through and eventually sign. As I was reading them, my eyes began to cross. I thought I understood most of it, but I had no idea whether anything in there was […] The post 023 : An entity's warm blanket with Matthew Moisan first appeared on Novice No Longer.

In this week’s podcast episode, I share how I escaped the retail world and got into tech journalism. It’s all because of a little personal website I started. I also explain how you, too, can benefit from starting your own website — even if you don’t want to get int journalism — and how to […] The post 022 : Why you should have started a blog yesterday first appeared on Novice No Longer.

When I was in high school, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I ended up taking a theater class as an elective freshman year (my mother’s suggestion) and loved it. I took more and more classes until I was eventually staring in almost all my high school plays (oh […] The post 021 : Pitching, press, and passion with TechRadar's Joe Osborne first appeared on Novice No Longer.

Have you ever gone to an event and thought it was just “meh”? Maybe you signed up because of the awesome lineup of panelists, but the questions posed by the moderator were just boring and there wasn’t any opportunity to ask questions. Or maybe the food sucked and all you wanted was a drink. Laura […] The post 020 : Gotta keep hustling with Laura and Sara of DigitalFlash first appeared on Novice No Longer.

Most people think securing passive income is all about releasing a killer online product that generates a boatload of income and will continue to sell itself in perpetuity. With this mindset, people will often sit around doing nothing, waiting for the “perfect idea” to strike. Or they’ll spend years tweaking their product, making small changes with every […] The post 019 : Passive income through YouTube and Kindle with Brian Yang first appeared on Novice No Longer.

This episode of the podcast is a little different from the others. Usually my guests share their entrepreneurial stories, step-by-step, in order to help you on your journey. But sometimes we need to step back and take a look at the bigger picture. This episode is all about ideas. My guest today is Daniel Howley, […] The post 018 : Peering into the future of tech with Dan Howley first appeared on Novice No Longer.

I was really into zines when I was in high school. I spent almost all my time on alt.zines, spent way too much time hunting for old issues of Urban Hermitt, and constantly found myself browsing the fantastic zine section at Tower Records. Almost all my money went to Microcosm Publishing. But whenever I’d browse […] The post 017 : Using apps to fund apps with Bobby Gill first appeared on Novice No Longer.

I love talking to programmers who no longer spend majority of their time writing code. Having a background in software development bring such a unique and analytical perspective to even project, and that’s definitely true of this week’s podcast episode. My guest is Lis Hubert, the user experience consultant behind Hubert Experience Design. She was […] The post 016 : When the consultant gets interns with Lis Hubert first appeared on Novice No Longer.

The Novice No Longer Podcast is getting meta. This week’s guest is the talented Steve Young, post of the Mobile App Chat podcast. I’m so excited to have another podcaster on the show because we get to talk about one of my favorite topics ever: podcasting. Steve walks you through, step-by-step, how to create your […] The post 015 : Podcasting for business and pleasure with Steve Young first appeared on Novice No Longer.