Today's episode of Ship it and Sip it is one of the most unusual.

“Paralect Venture Studio is an organization that systematically builds, launches, grows, and funds new startups, using our internal resources, network, and expertise. I think that in the near future, we will become more product-oriented, rather than just technically-oriented.” – Pavel Prata, Managing Director at Paralect

What's it take to build a high-quality product?

"You should find a very good team and you should invest in building a strong relationship within the team … If you have a good team with good communication, they can solve anything." – Natalia Puzikova, Head of QA Department

This week on Ship it and Sip it, we took a deep dive into quality assurance for startup products

"To make it super simple, it's like building something out of constructor blocks. It’s just a game for a boy — the boy just grew up and the game has changed.” – Sergey Lukashov

"Unlike the current economic model where it's the capital in the center, we put the creator in the center of the model."

Meet Alex Shkor — CEO of Vedai: education crowd investing platform and DEIP — Creator Economy Protocol.

In this interview Alex told us about:

"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:

"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 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

"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

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