MyPad: How A Mobile App Contended With A Giant Like Facebook – with Cole Ratias

Cole Ratias, MyPad, Bootstrapping, Mobile Apps, Social Media

How does an entrepreneur get 10 million users to download his Facebook app? (And what happens when Facebook competes with him?!)

Since it took Facebook a long, long time to launch its own iPad app, today’s guest created Facebook app and got it into the Apple App Store.

Cole Ratias is the creator of MyPad, which today allows anyone to interact on Facebook and Twitter.

Cole Ratias

MyPad

Cole Ratias is the creator of MyPad, which today allows anyone to interact on Facebook and Twitter.

 

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