Abhinav Gupta - App Trillionaires: How To Become An App Developer: Enjoy Life, Make Money, and Live Your Dreams!

App Trillionaires:

How To Become An App Developer

Enjoy Life, Make Money, and
Live Your Dreams!

Abhinav Gupta

iUniverse, Inc.

Bloomington

App Trillionaires: How To Become An App Developer

ENJOY LIFE,MAKE MONEY,AND LIVE YOUR DREAMS!

Copyright 2013 Abhinav Gupta.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013900222

ISBN: 978-1-4759-7043-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4759-7041-8 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4759-7042-5 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 1/9/2013

Table of Contents

This book contains a plethora of practical tips and gives a great overview of the apps business. But its essence is really the philosophical approach that is something way more important than technical tricks. For that reason, I highly recommend this book for everyone that would want to take the apps business train, including experienced developers.

Nicolas Peri, CTO of Stonetrip ( http://www.stonetrip.com )

Abhinav uses his real world experiences in breaking into the App development business to great effect in this book. For those just getting into the field, youll find dozens of pearls of wisdom, with tips and pointers on all that you need to get started making and marketing great mobile Apps.

Russell Hansen, Synaptic Bytes ( http://synapticbytes.com )

Abhinav Gupta has created a truly amazing collection of development tips, insights and advice summarized into an easy to read book. Even I myself, a long time professional, found some new ideas to try while reading this well organized journey into the world of mobile app development.

Attila Beke, 3D Magic LLC

Being an App Developer and App Business Owner is a challenge and there are many times when everyone will not understand you or may not understand HOW you are able to do what you do. Out of frustration, anger, jealousy, envy and even greed, many will try and reduce your dreams or belittle you either because they themselves have given up on their own dreams, or they have not taken the risks to achieve success in their own lives. In any case, keeping a positive mindset and having a strong faith in a greater power is key to success in this business.

For this reason, first and foremost, this book is dedicated to God who has helped me through some of the toughest times in my life when the whole world was against me and said I was crazy to believe that I could achieve success. Id also like to thank my wife Seema and my kids and family who have stuck by my side through the good times and the bad times. Id also like to thank my team around the world who helped me out in building this business, especially Amit Niraj who also kept a positive and loyal mindset when things just seemed down.

And to my valued readers and supporters, thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your constant support and interest in the creations I have made. I pray and hope you will continue to purchase and enjoy the many works I create.

Abhinav Gupta

Lead Developer and CEO

Game Scorpion Inc.

http://www.gamescorpion.com

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

My name is Abhinav Gupta, a person who was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. My ancestry is of South East Asian (Indian) decent, and even though I can speak the Indian languages fluently, I have only visited India 2-3 times in my life. Canada has and always will be my home, but knowing how I got here is also very important as well, and for this reason I celebrate my ancestral culture as well as my Canadian roots. One of the best things that I love about Canada is the fact that I can walk down the street and say hello to people in their own languages. Its the way the world should be in my opinion, a place where all human beings work together and celebrate their differences and love each other and respect each other.

Im an App Developer, App Business Owner/Trainer, a Father to two beautiful children, married to a wonderful wife with a cute little Maltese dog and a very strong believer in God and the Bible. Im a graduate of Computer Science from Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Ive been in the IT field for well over 10 years.

Since I was a young boy, making and playing video games was always a love of mine and since then I wanted to learn how I could do that for the rest of my life. I have always loved to create things and so creativity and innovation have been a driving force for me.

You may have been wondering WHY I decided to write this book. If I know how to make money and can show others how to make money, wouldnt I want to just hide the secret and keep it all to myself?

It started back in 2008 when the recession hit me here in Canada. I personally believe that it was due to this VERY mentality of GREED. American Corporate and personal greed hit an all time high! Banks were giving out mortgages to people who didnt even qualify for a mortgage, just to try and make even more money. PUBLIC COMPANIES had CEOs making MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of dollars while their staff barely could make ends meet! The American market collapsed and the whole world went into a recession!

You may ask why Im bringing this all upWell thats when I lost my computer contract (I was working at the time fixing computers). At that point I owned a house, a car and had a young family (Wife, son and dog) and did not know what to do. I started applying for jobs, and here I was with a Degree in Computer Science (Graduated from Ryerson University in that year) and I could not find a job. To try and keep afloat I opened up a Dollar Store and Computer Store in Brampton, Ontario with whatever little nest egg I had left, and also found work selling a glorified Lint Roller in various Department Stores in Ontario. As the recession had just started and was getting worse, sales in the two businesses were just horrid, and my other side job selling the Lint Rollers was not paying off anythingAnd then at the end of 2008 what I did not think was possible actually happened to melike many people in North America and the worldI went bankrupt.

I begged my parents to move in, it was a very low time in my life, but I kept faith in the higher power and kept believing that God had a plan and I knew I was going to be in a better place. At the time however I did not know what to do and I was a bit depressed. Loosing everything you have is not a great feeling at all.

Time and time again I would look at the news only to see more doom and gloom and many corporations that you thought were too big to fail going bankrupt and dying out! Some of the top banks were just wrapping up and leaving thousands without money! It was a frenzy, people were not sure whether to even trust BANKS! Do you keep your money under a bed now? Like these were at that time SERIOUS QUESTIONS!