Ship it and Sip it

"If someone is building a product, they want this product to be cool and to be built and work as they expected. And that's why it's easier to communicate with founders." – Kseniya Tsyganok, Business Analyst at Paralect

In Episode 10 of Ship it and Sip it, John and Kseniya talk about Paralect's pop-up office in Georgia and:

📝 Her pivot from journalism into business analysis

🤝 How mentorship from Irina Latushkina helped (and still helps) her succeed

💡 Being a BA on established products vs a brand new MVP

And a lot more!

"For me the main challenge is how to make these abstract things more or less stories —  understandable to me and the people I'm talking to."

Enjoy the show and check out our BA openings on join.paralect.com 👀



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"We still want to think in terms of the one single offer for the founder. To the person who'd like to start their own business … and go all-in with the product." – Dmitry Schetnikovich, Founder and CEO of Paralect.

We got Dmitry into the Ship it and Sip it studio to dig into Paralect's history, understand his perspective on launching products and explore his vision for our future 💡

We dove into many topics — Dmitry's pre-Paralect days, the 5th year of Startup Summer, growing through failure as a founder, and what our concept of a venture studio looks like.

"The stories everyone shares on this show are all enabled by the culture, teams and people that make up Paralect. Even the inspiration to start Ship it and Sip it came from Dmitry's podcast." – John McTavish

Enjoy the show 🙏

"We keep trial and error — we have a couple sets of ideas, then we change it, we test them and make sure this is what we need." – Mohamed Abosbanab, VISXA founder

We caught up with Mohamed to see the progress the team has made in phase one of the Paralect Accelerator 🚀

This product discovery and design phase includes:

🎉 Design and launch of the VISXA website with sign-up forms

💡 Refining the product requirements for the MVP

🤝 Talking with potential partners and users to improve the solution(s) VISXA brings to the travel and immigration market

"I've gone to talk with the partners and people who'd like to relocate to try to see how we can — when we build the MVP — actually help them. And I've discovered that the market is changing rapidly. When you design something, you should be flexible — you can pivot — and you have to keep learning." – Mohamed

Enjoy this clip and stay tuned for more from VISXA 🙌

"We made sure that everything there had a purpose, that the flow was seamless between the screens, and we tried to tackle edge cases as much as possible. So I feel like for the developers it's going to be a lot easier to work on this." – Julie Landeroin, Founder of Nudge.

We caught up with Julie to check in on Nudge's progress halfway through the Paralect Accelerator 🚀

Find out:

✨ What special touches Victoriya Antonovich’s design team added to the website and app

✍️ How Kseniya Starodubova and Pavel Prata helped refine Nudge’s value proposition

💡 What ideas came from prospective users that helped shape the MVP

🤔 Why Nudge is designed with every user in mind

👉 How Nudge supports the transition towards workplaces every Millennial dreams of

Nudge is flying towards its launch and we can't wait to get more feedback from the early user community to make it even better along with Julie 🙌

This week's episode of Ship it and Sip it is fresh and cool like a perfect gin and tonic on a hot day 😎

John got fellow vlogger and front-end code-maestro Mike Gagarin in to chat:

💡 How he moved from design to development

🤔 What one important concept he teaches to new engineers

🙏 Why Paralect is still exciting and engaging for him after almost 5 years

And, of course, his (relatively) new video series Bukhlonautica 🍻 where he shares recipes and secrets behind famous and up-and-coming cocktails.

Shake yourself a tasty beverage and enjoy!

Time for Episode 7 of Ship it and Sip it with special guest Victoria Barouskaya 🤝

We explore 🧐

🧭 her journey into project management and Paralec

👉 how she dealt with imposter syndrome at the beginning

💪 and how she's involved with growing the startup ecosystem at her University

"I'm really grateful to our team of developers at that time because whenever I had questions about the tech side — this was a whole new world for me — everyone was really understanding and eager to help me with anything I wanted to know." – Victoria

We hope you enjoy this chat as much as we enjoy working with Victoria 🎉

Happy Friday, friends! Time for Episode 6 of Ship it and Sip it 🚀

This week Alena Timofeeva, Head of Marketing at Paralect, joined the show to talk brand positioning and more 🤝

From organizing our distributed team to her ideal home office setup to how we can best connect with new and ambitious founders around the world, John and Alena covered a lot over their cuppa tea.

Enjoy this sneak peek into Paralect Marketing and have a lovely weekend 😎

"I wanted to build a product to help people follow their dreams — how do you find people who really have your best interest at heart and are qualified to help? And I wanted people to give first, to get into that habit of giving before they ask for something." – Julie Landeroin, Founder of Nudge

🤝 Meet Julie, another founder in Batch One of the Paralect Accelerator 🚀

Right now, she's working with our business discovery team (Product Manager Pavel Prata, Business Analyst Kseniya Starodubova, and Designer Viktoria Antonovich) to establish the MVP design, features, and scope of Nudge.

In our first interview, Julie shares:

💡 How she discovered this problem 8 years ago and the challenges she's had trying to build the solution.

💪 The support system for startups and founders in France

🙏 Why the pay-it-forward approach is Nudge's core feature and competitive advantage.

With her background as an entrepreneur and the depth of customer research she brought into the Accelerator, we are confident Julie's got an idea that can thrive. And we're eager to turn it into a valuable, beautiful product together with her 🙌

“The mentality here is different — you’re always looking to not waste a minute, focusing, understanding the plan — what’s the next step? And always happy to help, which I find much more interesting. It’s like building a win-win situation." – Mohamed Abosbanab, Founder of VISXA

This is the first of a series of discussions with our founders in Batch One of the Paralect Accelerator 🤝

Right now, they're going through the business discovery and design phase with our teams to get a clear view of how their idea will transform into a product this summer 🚀

Find out:

💡 Why Mohamed wants to transform legal services for travelers, nomads and immigrants?

🤔 What challenges he's faced in pivoting from lawyer to founder?

👉 And how his vision of VISXA is taking shape with us in Phase 1 💪

Enjoy, we'll be back with more founder interviews soon!

Welcome to episode 5 of Ship it and Sip it 🚀

This week, John sat down with Margo to have a look at finding new ideas, making connections with founders around the world and the importance of an inclusive workspace for us at Paralect.

Thanks for watching and have a lovely weekend ☀️