You might be wondering, who is this guy? If you are not wondering that, feel free to skip this session. Otherwise...

Hi, I'm Jeremy Olson (@jerols on Twitter). Five years ago I had an audacious goal: figure out how to build successful apps. Since then, I feel very fortunate that my little app company Tapity has released three major apps: Grades (2011 Apple Design Award), Languages (reached #5 overall in the App Store), and Hours (#1 top grossing business app at launch).

To learn more about me, this Iterate podcast interview, this MyAppventure interview, and this Tuts+ text interview cover my story pretty well.

I by no means have all the answers but I have learned a few things over the years, so I felt I owed it to the community to distill everything I learned into this course. The cool thing is that I also went out and interviewed 9 of the top app makers and app journalists in the world and have sprinkled in their knowledge throughout this course. You can also find their full interviews at the end of the course.

They are great people. Let me briefly introduce you:

• Mark Kawano-Former Senior Designer and User Experience Evangelist at Apple, founder at Storehouse
• Rene Ritchie-Editor-in-chief, iMore.com
• Marc Edwards-Founder and Lead Designer at Bjango (iStat, Skala)
• Ellis Hamburger-Reporter at the Verge
• Michael Flarup-Founder and Lead Designer at Robocat (Haze, Thermo, Outside)
• Julian Walker-Director of Software Engineering and Co-Founder at FiftyThree (Paper)
• Harold Emsheimer-Co-Founder and Interface Designer at Overcommitted (Recall, Entries)
• Shane Crawford--Founder of Blue Lightning Labs (Mathemagics)
• Denys Zhadanov-Marketing Director at Readdle (Calendars, Printer Pro, PDF Expert)