Ever wonder what goes on 'behind the scenes' in the design dept of those cool tech startups 🤔

Who are these artsy folks in black t-shirts?

John invited Paralect's Head of Design Victoriya Antonovich to Ship it and Sip it to dig into product design and our approach to beautiful, intuitive solutions 💡

They focused on the early stages of product discovery, the tools we use to turn ideas into mockups and clickable prototypes, and how our design team supports each other despite being on different product teams 👍

Enjoy the show 🍻

Want to know more about our design process? Check out paralect.com/design to learn more.

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🍻 Friday's here and so is episode 3 of Ship it and Sip it 🎉  

This week John invited Nikita to the show to talk about his experiences with Paralect Startup Summer and his latest interest in blockchain and crypto 💎 🙌  

Nikita's the perfect guy to ask about Startup Summer since he enrolled in the course at the start of his career and was a mentor and teacher last year.  And he'll be back for this year's edition to teach a lesson (or two) to the students 👍  

Hope you've had a great week and enjoy the show 🙏  



Topics and links we discuss:

fluencyscore.com

wynter.com/post/wynter-1-year-retrospective

startup-summer.paralect.com

youtube.com/paralect-workshop

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Hey friends, today we're happy to have Vladimir Panteleev join Ship it and Sip it 🍻

"For me as a PM, I like happy customers — it's my main motivation. Processes, reports, meetings — I like to see happy faces when I share these things." – Vladimir

In case you don't know Vladimir, he's been a long-time project manager and shining light at Paralect for almost 6 years 💪

We discussed:

🤔 Why he likes people more than computers.

🍸 How a project manager compares to your favorite bartender.

👨🏻‍🏫 His goals as a teacher at RollingScopes and TeachMeSkills.

🤬 What he loves most about PM software.

🦾 The potential for machine learning in product development.

And a lot more.

Grab a beverage, dive in and enjoy 🙏

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Welcome to Episode One of Ship it and Sip it 🍻  

This week our guest is Paralect CTO Igor Krasnik 😎  

In our first episode, we dove into a lot of topics including:

🎉 The new insure-tech product and website iMitig8 Risk 👉 www.imitig8risk.com

⚡️ Igor's exploration of no-code and low-code website builders like Webflow, Notion and Tilda 👉 igor.paralect.com

🤩 The 'creator economy' and Igor's move into building in public

🚀 Igor's vision for the Paralect Startup Accelerator program 👉 accelerator.paralect.com  



And a lot more.   



To stay hydrated during our chat, we enjoyed New Riga's Puzzle IPA series — a simple, refreshing single-hop beer.   So grab a cold one and enjoy ❤️

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Welcome to a new series from the Paralect Studio 🍻

In our world and the tech world, things happen fast — a dizzying flood of newness from startups and tools and products for all parts of our lives.

Sometimes — perhaps in the waning light of a Friday afternoon — you just gotta sit down and dig into it all with a friend or colleague. To see what they think beyond just messenger snippets and emoji reactions.

This is our goal for Ship it and Sip it.

We'll talk about small and big victories, about challenges and adaptations to the progress around us and about what keeps us excited to work creatively in this field.

Less of 'this new shiny thing is so cool' and more light-hearted investigation into the whys and hows of it all.

“Personally, I can't wait to have these chats with so many of my teammates and share them with our wider audience 🙏” – John McTavish

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