How To Be Moderately Successful.

Welcome to the 'how to be moderately successful' podcast, I'm your host Mike Scott and I am also the co-founder and CEO of Nona Digital.

This podcast is all about helping you to build better businesses, better tech products and a better version of yourself.

Today’s episode is sponsored by ourselves, Nona Digital. 
Nona Digital helps funded businesses accelerate their software projects.  With an impressive track record of delivering scalable beautiful software for clients around the world we are a great choice of tech partner. You can get in touch at [email protected].

Today my guest is Paul Galatis who is a super impressive guy.

Paul was one of the original directors and now non-executive director of Yuppiechef.com which is the most awarded e-commerce business in South Africa. 

Paul was part of the leadership that took this business to a team of 3 to a team of 200. After 10 years of online-only, moved into physical retail space and now have 7 stores around South Africa.

Paul’s current focus is namesandfaces.com. They make visual directories for organizations that have more people that one can comfortably remember.  

Namesandfaces.com is a Y Combinator, Accel and Slack Fund backed company.

Paul was born and raised in South Africa but now lives with his family in SanFrancisco and his team is split between South Africa and San Francisco so Paul knows a thing or two about running remote teams and cultures. 

Paul is a super nice guy a great storyteller and an impressive entrepreneur. 

Welcome Paul, super excited to have you on the show today.

You can get hold of Paul here:
Twitter: @paulgalatis
email: [email protected]

If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project or an episode, please do:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
[email protected]
 https://www.nona.digital
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Today my guest is Rob Rawson who is one impressive guy.

Rob and I explore bootstrapping to scale, insourcing vs outsourcing your tech team, the value of remote work, building products that solve real problems, and a lot more.

Rob studied and trained as a medical doctor and practiced for 3 years in Australia. While still studying and living with his parents Rob got his first taste of being an entrepreneur and there is a story about this coming later.

Rob has built many businesses some of which include a competitor to WhatsApp, a site to help people improve their lie detection skills, an advertising agency and an SEO agency.

Rob is also a real estate investor in the US market. 

He has experienced many failures and much success and one of the things that struck me when I first met him was his humility and calm demeanour despite an obviously impressive track record and capability. 

Robs’ main focus now and for the past while has been timedoctor.com, a SaaS business that helps with time tracking and productivity for remote teams. Rob has built this business to revenues of over $10m more than  8000 customers and with growth of over 100% in the past 12 months and he has done all of this with no outside investment. Pretty damn impressive.

Rob is a veteran tech entrepreneur and has got significant experience with building offshore global teams, across marketing, sales, and software development.

You can contact Rob at [email protected] and be sure to check out their conference at www.runningremote.com.

If you'd like to get in touch with me to discuss a tech project or an episode, please do:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
[email protected]
 https://www.nona.digital
https://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam

Today we will be exploring product design and whether there is a right or a wrong way to design your product from a process perspective.

My guest today is Gord our head of design at Nona and also one of my co-founders so we have been through a lot together.

Gord is an award-winning product designer and has worked on over 200 design projects in his career. He’s also got an Impressive beard and tattoo collection.

Gord recently gave a keynote that was very well received and the topic was around the pitfalls of process when it comes to design.

If you enjoyed this episode want to get in touch:
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 https://www.nona.digital
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Today we are going to be exploring the very current topic of whether to insource or outsource your tech team.

My guests today are not really guests but rather two of my business partners and they also happen to be brothers of the Irish variety.

Ed is my co-founder and COO of Nona and has worked on over 200 software projects over his career around the world. 
He also holds a degree in Actuarial science and identifies strongly as a ginger.

Dave is the older brother and is the CTO of Nona. 

Dave has been programming since ‘91 and has worked with some the worlds leading brands.Dave holds a computer science degree with honours in Semantic Computing.

Dave is my royal straight flush, he gives me the ability to say that I see you and raise you when it comes to tech capability. He makes me look good.

These are two of the smartest and most interesting people that I know and their combined experience is massive so I know that we will get some great value our of today's conversation.

Welcome guys and may the best brother win!

If you enjoyed this episode and want to get in touch:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
[email protected]
https://www.nona.digital
https://dribbble.com/nonadigitalteam