No Office

You've got to listined to this episode if you've ever been caught up in great stories about startups and entrepreneurs who raised venture capital got lavish in luxury!
Michael Sliwinski the CEO of Nozbe talks to Rand Fishkin, the cofounder and CEO of SparkToro and MOZ (2001-2018) and author of Lost and Founder.

⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:

- Why Venture is wrong to almost everyone but it is marketed to all of us…
- What to do if you really want to earn a lot of money vs. what to do if you want to stay independent and call the shots.
- What you have to prove to your customer to get their support and trust
- Why you want to develop your company based on core values that are important to you
- …and how Apple is compromising their core values on the App Store.

🔥 Highlights: 

- 99.9% companies ane entrepreneurs should not go raise ventrue capital. 
- 15-20 venture-backed companies still exist after 5 years - a huge amount go bankrupt. Listen to learn why.
- If you want to make money, get a job in Amazon, Facebook, Google and get promoted a few times. If you want to stay independent, call the shots, take the meetings that you want to take - venture is not for you either.
- The number of folks who make millions of dollars from an acquisition of a venture-backed startup is vanishingly small - less 1 in 1000 companies that try to raise venture will get to that scenario…

🔗 Show notes

• Rand's books: Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
• Rand's company: SparkToro
• MOZ - Rand's startup acquired by iContact Marketing Corp., 17 years after launch
• How Michael dealt with rising prices of Nozbe

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Creators & Guests

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Tadam! Michael and Rafal are back. In this episode, our hosts talk about interviewing customers, which every company or product owner should do to grow their business.

⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:

- Why you should talk to your customers
- How to conduct the interviews with people who use your products or services
- What information you want to get from these online meetings with your customers
- Why is it essential to use the 5 Whys method and dig to the source of the problem customers mention.
- How new Nozbe time parameters work and what other new features we've recently introduced in Nozbe.

We try to avoid meetings in our company. If we allow them to happen, they should be: optional, regular, and well-prepared. And so are the meetings we have with our customers. See in what way.

⏭️ Chapters:

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🔗 Show notes

• New features in Nozbe
• Meet your customers
• Book a demo of Nozbe

🟣 Find Us

• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Here is a reunion of David Allen, author of the GTD methodology and Michael who created the first GTD-based productivity app. They talk about the post-pandemic reality in organizations and try to figure out the best way to introduce holocracy and GTD in a team.  

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If so, then get the latest updates and tips from its "father" - David Allen himself. 
If no, then get to know one of the best productivity methodologies and find out what it takes to get organized.

Michael wants to know about GTD for teams… David always emphasizes that:

1. capture, 
2. clarify, 
3. organize, 
4. reflect, 
5. engage

—are the steps that successful teams do to maintain control and focus.

Find out what other tips he offers and how he thinks holocracy works in companies and how to introduce it in an organization.

🔗 Show notes

• David Allen on GTD in a team 
• What is holocracy
• Mighty Fridays at Nozbe

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Why bother with the time and expense of live conferences while there are so many great ways to improve your skills these days? Rafal will tell you about it based on his latest experience of the Product Camp conference.

🍏 Our host will also tell you about their WWDC 2022 delights: Stage Manager, External Monitor support for iPad, Shared Photo Library, New Home app, Custom Lock Screen and more.

⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:

- 🏡  Strange customs we have in Nozbe 
- 🙋  Why would you go to a in-person conference
- 🍏  Best features announced at WWDC 2022 keynote

🔗 Show notes

• Product Camp
• WWDC 2022
• Back pack we branded with the Nozbe logo

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Moving from your office to another place where you can do your job or associating a given place with a particular type of work can help you beat procrastination and help you find focus. Listen how!

⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:

• 📆 Changes to our podcast recording frequency
• 🏡 Does NoOffice approach means only working from home?
• 👋 How to beat the weekly review-related procrastination
• 👉 Ideas and tips for changing work environmen

🔗 Show notes

• A chapter from Michael's No Office book
• Nozbe vlog - how we run weekly review in Nozbe
• AirPods Pro

🟣 Find Us

• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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See how to organize your work, to direct your endeavours and boost your productivity thanks to regular weekly reviews.
The purpose of the review isn’t to try and fit more into your schedule. It’s about figuring out what is and isn’t working for you and how you can work better!

⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:

• What are the benefits of doing regular weekly reviews
• What issues people usually have with weekly reviews and how to cope with them
• How to run the easiest and the best weekly review

🔗 Show notes

• A chapter from Michael's No Office book
• Episode 22 about Core hours

🟣 Find Us

• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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When your brain isn't busy remembering everything, it works better, your creativity skyrockets and your stress level goes down. Writing things down is the first and most important tip you should try to implement in your team to boost your productivity. See why.

⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:

• ✍️ What are the benefits of writing stuff down
• 💻 What tools you can use to have everything written up
• 💰 How you can get and give away $15 just like that 😀

🔗 Show notes

• A chapter from Michael's No Office book
• Nozbe Referral Program
• Nordace Siena - smart backpack
• Fridays at Nozbe
• Journaling
• Touch typing
• Interview with Sarah
• Typefully
• Cleanshot X

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Future is hybrid. Now it is for sure.  Office used to be a tool for the company management while it should be a tool for employees to get their work done in the most efficient way. Hybrid work is all about it. We share our ideas and the best tips to arrange the hybrid work in your company.

💪🏼 What companies should do to make hybrid work… work:

• Allow employees to choose when they work from home and when they come to the office
• Allow flexible working hours - so that people can skip the rush hours
• Make sure meetings are virtual only - all of them - so that no-one is disadvantaged
• Go for asynchronous communication and ensure the materials are accessible safely from anywhere
• Provide people with the well set-up laptops and additional screens for home offices 
• Think of extra chargers - one for home and one for the office

🔗 Show notes

• Rafal's monitor - Philips Momentum 329M1RV
• Rectangle app for managing windows on macOS

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
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After a serious introduction involving the war, Ukraine being invaded by Russia and the disinformation we must fight, Michael and Rafal tell you everything about the 4-day workweek in the Nozbe company and our Mighty Fridays.

⭐️  Key things you will learn from this episode:

• 🇺🇦 Why many Russians believe Russia is right now saving Ukraine
• 🫂 How the Nozbe company is trying to support Ukraine
• 💪 How remote work lets push projects forward despite the tragic situation and emotional exhaustion
• 🌈 What are MIGHTY FRIDAYS/ 4-day workweek in Nozbe
• 💪 How was the Mighty Friday policy born

🔗 Show notes

• Nozbe helping Ukraine
• Fridays at Nozbe

🟣 Find Us

• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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