Bits, Bytes and Business

This week's podcast trailer is with Bella Bardswell and Tim Beattie the co-founders of Stellafai: https://www.stellafai.com/

This is a special "meet the team" podcast where we introduce Fritz Lowrey our Head of BD for the Americas who is also a virtual CTO

This week we are talking to mentor, business advisor and Head of Techops for Test Card, Selby Cary.

Selby is a serial entrepreneur that has scaled businesses and in this podcast we talk about his experiences of scaling and the challenges that lie therein

We cover the following areas:

- What do we mean by scaling?

- When do you feel the growing pains?

- How hiring changes as you scale

- Dealing with technical debt

- How you maintain culture as you scale

- How product development changes as you scale

- Sweat equity

- The challenges operationally when you scale

This week's guest is serial entrepreneur, advisor and Head of Techops for Test Card - Selby Cary. This week we will be talking about the challenges of scaling

This week the podcast is coming live from Croatia where we talk with Davor Culjak and Svjetlana Vukic from Resonate and Davor Bagarić from Beap about their experiences starting and growing businesses in Croatia

We talk through a number of topics:

- What made the founders move from full time employment to founding their own business

- The challenges of hiring and maintaining culture

- The pros and cons of starting your own business

- The importance of having other co-founders

- Work / life balance and the difference between working on your business rather than in your business

To learn more about the companies visit:

https://beap.co/

https://www.resonate.digital/

This week the podcast is coming live from Croatia where we talk with Davor Culjak and Svjetlana Vukic from Resonate and Davor Bagarić from Beap about their experiences starting and growing businesses in Croatia

In this podcast we talk with Frank Oelschlager from Ten Mile Square, a company that specialises in solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups

With Frank we talk about all things a non-technical founder needs to know about building a product, we discuss the folloing:

- What are the important things to keep in mind when you are designing a product

- Technical debt

- Teasing out what features are most valuable to your customer

- How much you should automate early on

- When should you customise your product for a customer

- The role of a CTO in an early stage business

- What is more important design or usability?

- How you should organise your team

- The value of a product owner

- Do you really need to scale a tech team?

For more information on Frank visit:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankoelschlager/

https://tenmilesquare.com

This week's podcast guest is Frank Oelschlager from Ten Mile Squared - a company that helps businesses solve complex technical challenges

For more info on Frank visit:

https://tenmilesquare.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankoelschlager/

This week's podcast guest is Mark Peacock - the Price Maker

Mark is a repeat guest and has come out with a new book called Pricing for Success

In this podcast we talk about all things pricing and what businesses should be doing to maximise their pricing

For more info visit Mark's website: https://www.pricemaker.co.uk/

This week's guest is Mark Peacock, the Price Maker who has written a new book called Pricing for Success