Ship it and Sip it

If you've ever had these questions pop into your head, this show's for you.

Our guest Jay Unwin brings 10+ years of experience in fitness and stress management to uncover what's causing us stress today and what we can do about it.

Here's what you'll learn: 💡 How to de-stress in winter & make better resolutions 📱 What to about stress from social media 🚰 Where stress comes from and how to handle different sources 😴 What recovery on the day to day looks like

So if you're feeling a bit frazzled, pop in your earbuds and head out for a quiet walk in the snow and enjoy the show ❄️

Alexandra is the product manager on the VeroSkills team, a role she grew into thanks to her innate curiosity, organizational skills and customer focus.

In this show, we uncover the balance between product and people that makes product management just work.

Along the way, Alexandra shares:

⚒️ how she facilitates amazing team meetings

🤖 the automation process that cut VeroSkills onboarding time in half

💪 what motivation means in a startup team

And a lot more about her journey to PM + her perspective on goals and how to reach them herself and as a team.

Enjoy the show 🫶

PS: For more about VeroSkills, check out Episode 67 with founder Daniel Walsh!

​​Today we have an interview with Lera Kuntsevich, founder of Clipwing.

She's an ideal guest because she has helped tons of other founders during the Nano Grit and Bootcamp challenges earlier this year — and now she's striking out on her own as a founder of Clipwing — the tool to make shorter clips out of longer video content.

Lera is open and radiates positivity among the Build in Public founder community. But she's also transparent about the challenges she's faced along the way and how she tries to overcome them.

We explore: • Lera's journey from designer to founder • what happened in Momentum With Paralect and Igor and Nano Grit • building Clipwing in the Nano Accelerator • the build in public community and how it helps Lera as an open founder.

“I built Clipwing for you even if you're not my target audience — still for you because just I love the build-in-public community. We grow in this community, we learn from each other. I'm building Clipwing because I see how other people without any tech experience — they also built some products and it motivates — if there were no build-in-public community, I'm sure that there wouldn’t be Clipwing because I wouldn’t find any motivation to do it.”

As always the show is made possible by Paralect and if you have a moment after listening to this show please do go check out Clipwing.pro make a few short clips from your longer content and share them with the rest of the internet.

"Oftentimes people do competitor analysis, but it's a one and done thing and it's not being referenced after that. But there's so much value in understanding how your competitors are growing and how they're adjusting to their market"

Uma’s an Entrepreneur in Residence at Wizard Ventures and we uncover:

👀 Why competitor monitoring matters for startup success

🧐 How it’s different and more useful than one-off competitor analysis

🧭 Uma’s journey from University in the US to Wizard Ventures in Berlin

🚀 Tona’s launch and GTM strategy

Uma and the team create fantastic content around all things startups and we’re glad to have a look behind the scenes to understand how it all works.

Check out Tona.so to find out more about competitor monitoring and Wizard Ventures for more of Uma’s work in the wider startup/venture space.

"Your stories, your scars — physical scars or the scars on your soul — they are important for you because they're the evidence of sometimes difficult, or sometimes very sad stories.

These scars make you beautiful because they make you strong."

Today's guest Olya Kolyada brought a new level of openness to the show. As the host, I'm sincerely grateful for her courage to frankly share her journey, challenges and all.

In part one, we dive into the QA program at Startup Summer where Olya served as a mentor and QA team lead on Moodahub, including:

* The student selection process to find the best 6 students to join the course

* How the lessons prepared the students to join product teams in just 2 weeks

* What challenges the students faced building and testing the Accelerator products.

Part two takes a personal turn as Olya opens up about her paragliding accident while on holiday and her long, uncertain journey to recover and return to ‘normal life’.

As her medical leave stretched to two years and the number of repair operations mounted, Olya shares who and what kept her spirits up.

And how the experience has impacted her perspective on work, life and the scars we all carry.

Thanks Olya and everyone who offered her support through it all 🫶

Tune in as 3 founders of sporty startups share their stories of inspiration and upsets along their journey to launch 🚀

On the show we have:

• AR Bell from GameTime Hero

• Tanja Kropf with Adults Play Sports

• Wyatt Gustafson at Refr Sports

"The word I'd prefer to use over communication is just connection. There's a huge industry in sports with connecting people — whether that be referees or players or teams. It's so antiquated and there are not proper technologies in place to just connect people." – Wyatt

Each of these founders has taken a unique approach to solving problems for their sports communities. Game on!

“Marketing is the only department inside a company that everybody thinks they know something about. You’ll never hear sales people or marketers or HR walk up to DevOps and say ‘Yeah, you shouldn’t use Docker, switch to Kubernetes.’”

Founder Frank Diepmaat opens up about his journey in launching the very new Pink Bird Marketing agency.

Based in Helsinki, but serving startups and founders worldwide, Frank brings broad and deep experience in tech to focus on helping us market better.

We got into:

• What Frank loves about marketing vs other tech roles

• How he’s structured the agency’s go-to-market in the first few months

• Where founders get stuck with their marketing

• The tools and MarTech stack he uses to stay efficient with this side hustle

And of course we talked shop on #BuildInPublic and generative AI.

Check out PinkBird.net to learn more about Frank and the team and schedule a free consultation call if you need a fresh perspective on your current challenge 🤝

"We share our expertise — I can share my knowledge about video or animation creation and others can share their expertise in UX or UI. Sharing your knowledge is really important and helps you to improve your own skills."

Fresh off the launch of the uptempo fitness apps Spot and Carousel Boxing, Sergei Laptev joins the show to chat about his approach to product and motion design.

Find out what he thinks about:

💪 Designing health and wellness apps with less friction so people can focus on their health goals

🤜 Making promo videos and appealing to users with motion design

🚀 Learning new skills and sharing with the design community on Twitter and Youtube

🧂 What's going on at Salt & Bold design studio

Right now, Sergei's working with the team at goLance on a fresh update and we can't wait to see the new features for the freelance community.

Check out Spot and Carousel Boxing if you need a great workout app!

Serial startup founder Jeff joins the show to share his team's journey from a successful exit with Path a few years ago through the growth of their current SaaS platform Pearly.

Jeff's perspective is pragmatic and seasoned with experience — we dive into:

⚒️ The drive to build startups and solve real pains

🔎 How he learned to focus on what matters more with his 2nd startup

🤝 Their 2-time co-founder journey and how their working relationship keeps working

🚀 Pearly's go to market strategy + growth flywheel

And what he's learned after successfully fundraising initial rounds for 2 SaaS startups in health-tech.

"Being able to get over the hump of demonstrating value and having referenceable customers and having that real trust in the product — that was a big thing for us."

Enjoy the show!

It's hard to summarise everything she's into and her energy for making great products with the Indie maker community is equally boundless!

But we get into all we could in just one show:

• Why making better UX is at the foundation of all her work

• How she partners with so many folks + us at Nano

• What she and I think Nano will be and how she's clarifying that on the new site

• What she's learned from recent Product Hunt launches

And a lot lot more.

At the heart of it all is people, community and trust.

Follow her work on X to see the lovely projects and products she's impacting.