Innovation Spotlight

“Splitting the co-founder shares fifty-fifty is the worst thing you can ever do,” says Peter Maslik, co-founder and COO of the real estate crowdfunding platform Investown. Why does he think so? Equal voting rights is just one reason. That's why Investown was founded by five co-founders. What are their plans, where do they want to expand, and how is Česká spořitelna's Seed Starter helping them? Get the answers to all these questions and more in the next episode of our podcast.

“When you decide to have a startup, you decide to pursue the growth,” says Zdeněk Němec, Co-founder and CTO of Superface–⁠a framework that turns complex APIs into easy-to-integrate use cases. He also talks about the pros and cons of non-financial investors and how cooperation with Applifting helped Superface in the beginning.

“Technical debt is similar to any other debt,” says Nick Barbariyskiy, head of Applifting Enterprise—a tribe specialized in complex software solutions and architecture. He adds that, unlike financial debt, companies sometimes fall into the technical one knowingly. Why? And is technical debt always a result of choice between cost and quality and speed? Find out the answers to all these questions and more in the next episode of our podcast.

“You have to acknowledge that you’ll be sacrificing your personal life and basically everything else for work.” And that’s just one ingredient the recipe calls for when creating a successful startup and working a full-time job, which Vojtěch Šanca reveals in the next episode of our podcast. He told us how his company Dio was founded, what helps him stay sane, and many other fascinating insights into the life of a working startupist.

“GetSnack helps companies manage their snackbars by automating basic processes such as stock control, transactions and consumption settlement at the end of the month,”  Martin Srb from the mobile department describes Applifting’s very first own commercial app. Together with Roman Vuchtrl from the product team, they reveal the story of its creation. They talk about the development and shaping of the idea, product validation, and much more.

“Minimum viable product is basically a means of testing the most crucial hypotheses about your users, their behaviour, and product on the real market,” says Roman Vuchtrl, member of the product development team in Applifting. In the second part of our podcast, Roman explains in detail what an MVP is and what it is used for. Learn what its benefits are and why you shouldn’t expect MVP to generate profit.

“Prototyping is a way to make your product ideas more tangible.” says Roman Vuchtrl, member of the product development team in Applifting. He talks about methods of prototyping, useful tools, fake door technique, MVP, and much more. Do not miss this episode–you will learn how to figure out if your ideas have the potential to work in the real world.

“Na BankID je skvělé, že vám umožní se podívat na fungování vašeho byznys modelu z jiné perspektivy a třeba i s jeho pomocí vylepšit a zefektivnit interní procesy,” říká Vratislav Kalenda z Appliftingu ve speciálním díle našeho podcastu. Tentokrát jsme ho pojali trochu jinak - jako zvukový záznam ze semináře, který jsme pořádali spolu s Bankovní identitou. Zjistíte vše o zabezpečení, mechanismu přihlášení nebo zda je pro vaši firmu BankID dobrou volbou.

“Some time ago, we were asked to share our internal snack management solution, and that was the starting point for its transformation into a commercial product,” says Martin Srb about the reasons for creating Applifting’s first in-house product. The Fridge app helps companies and teams to manage snack bars easily and effortlessly. Learn more about the product work or the controversial fake door method we decided to use.

“Musíte přesvědčit ostatní, že váš nápad vede k úspěšnému byznysu. A to nejde udělat úplně zadarmo,” říká v dalším díle našeho podcastu Honza Minárik, expert na produktový vývoj. Dozvíte se třeba to, jaké možnosti investování do tvorby produktu startupy mají, jak získat investici nebo jak vstup investora mění kritéria úspěchu celého byznysu.