How To Find a Great App Development Partner

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Our Vice President of Marketing explains the criteria for picking the best app development partner for your business.

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HOW TO BECOME A GREAT APP

DEVELOPMENT PARTNERElliotte Bowerman,

Vice President of Marketing

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1. You have an app idea but don’t know how to bring it into reality

2. You made a basic MVP, now you need to put the big app pants on 3. You can’t/don’t wish

to hire internal employees

4. You need a lot of help FAST

5. You’ve gotten funding at LAUNCH Festival to take your app to the next level

YOU KNOW YOU NEED HELP WHEN…

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Good

Fast Cheap

Fast + cheap will lead to a very different development partner vs. fast + good.

Decide on your priorities.

PICK TWO

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BUDGET

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Your budget is a major filter when working with development partners. A fixed-cost system vs. an hourly rate both have their pros and cons.

VARIABLES

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Because every app is unique, ranges will vary, but keep in mind that “You get what you pay for” is very true in mobile app development.

COMPARING

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Marketing Development Design

Great development partners support your BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT and always keep the bigger picture in mind.

AVAILABLE SERVICES

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Are you impressed with their work?

Research & evaluate their • website• portfolio• reviews

TALENT & EXPERIENCE

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• Where are YOU?

• Where are THEY?

• Frequent in-person/hands-on time with the team?

• Any language requirements/cultural familiarities?

LOGISTICS

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• Do you LIKE the people you’ve met?• Are they passionate?• Is there mutual respect?• Would you have a beer with the team?

THE PEOPLE FACTOR

NINJAS VS. ZOMBIES

Operations Lead Mani Farr mani.farr@sourcebits.com

Director of HR & Recruiting Navpreet Kaur navpreet.kaur@sourcebits.com

Finance Naveen Ramaswamy naveen.ramaswamy@sourcebits.com

Legal Counsel Rajwinder Sandhu rajwinder.sandhu@sourcebits.com

Finance Manager Yagamurthy S yagamurthy@sourcebits.com

IT

vs

Zombies will build exactly what you want - but only that

Ninjas will BATTLE for your success

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Budget

AvailableServices

People

Zombiesvs. Ninjas

Talent &Experience

Logistics

SUMMARY

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Our unique co-founding partnership model means we’re involved every step of the way, from product ideation, design and development, launch marketing strategy, business planning, securing investors, and long-term growth.

PRODUCT STUDIOS

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NEVER EVER

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QUESTIONS

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