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Manan Mehta is the Founder & CEO of Modernizing Processes: Team of 4 Glide Certified Experts specializing in various skills such as design, external integrations, spreadsheet logic and high-level Glide logic. Manan, and his incredible team, are solving small and medium-sized business problems by building fully integrated solutions with a healthy mixture of No-Code and "Code".

Modernizing Processes offers solutions for all business operational activities that can be run from within a single application. Manan will help you significantly decrease your business's operational costs and achieve growth through increased efficiency in only 4-weeks!

If you want to see the pure magic this team can create, see for yourself here!

This is Part II of In Case You Forgot: The Ownership Economy podcast with Andy Wingrave a.k.a THE No-Code Automation Guru.

Or maybe you’re curious about starting a startup (nice play on words there)…

This is one of my favorite podcast episodes, and if you’re not sure if it’s your cup of tea or not, I implore you to listen to the first 3 minutes where Andy shows us his ROOMS full of board games because it’s awesomely awesome (if I can say that!).

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Thank you again to Andy for the amazing conversation and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did! 😉

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Podcast Episode (Part 3) with Andy Wingrave. Andy is one of the top no-code, automation experts in the world and I was lucky enough to spend a few hours talking about his incredible journey. Personally, I learned so much in this conversation, however more importantly, I had such a great time talking with Andy. There is so much you can take away from his experience as a creator and entrepreneur so on behalf of Andy and myself...enjoy!

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The second part (2/4) with Andy Wingrave who is a Zapier Expert, Make Expert, Founder of Saastronmical (check out the video), and Creator. We talk about a bunch of useful tactics for anyone who wants to pursue their own passions, start their own business, become a freelancer, and the best ways to get started so that you don't lose your faith while the "going gets tough". Andy shows us his INCREDIBLE board game collection (seriously, it's ridiculous) and shares his journey on how he got started with his business ventures to where he is at today. This discussion was a few hours although absolutely very helpful for aspiring creators of all kinds (especially those interested in No-Code tools!) and I'm sure you can take away some practical advice that will ensure you give yourself the highest probability of success! (The 2nd and 3rd part will be released in the following two days!).

Thank you, Andy! :)

Andy Wingrave is a creator, maker, and entrepreneur. This is Part I (1/4).

In this episode, we are joined by David Peterson and co-host: Yash Tekriwal. This was a super fun conversation about David's investing thesis, what it's like working with early stage founders, how toolkits are the future of Saas, and so much more! Take a listen if you want to hear from a true thought leader in No-Code and an active investor in the B2B SaaS world.

David Peterson is the second full Partner of Angular Ventures. He leads investments, takes board sets, and works with companies across their portfolio.

Prior to Angular Ventures, he was an early employee twice over (most recently at Airtable, where he built his first growth team and led partnerships), a founder of a bootstrapped software company, and a seed investor at Founder Collective. Angular Ventures is a specialist, first-check venture capital firm focused exclusively on B2B, enterprise, and deep-tech companies across Europe and Israel.

Yash Tekriwal, is an executive coach, a teacher, a management consultant, a data scientist, and a career coach. He loves solving difficult but important problems. Over the years, he come to believe that "education" is at the core of solving many of the world's most pressing problems. He also believes that income inequality, racial injustice, sustainability, mental health, health care, and food insecurity can all be improved through better communities, connection, and learning.

Missing this episode means missing some great thoughts from David and Yash 🤦🏻, so you better check it out now! :)

“The product is important in so much as it reveals the thoughtfulness of the founder, founding team, and how they're thinking about approaching the purging the problem which, which is another way of saying it's, it's all about, like evaluating. Yeah, it's all right. Again, it's all about the people and how they're thinking.” - David Peterson

Highlights:

[02:53] Building a no-code business and getting acquired with Airtable

[04:49] Jumping to venture capital world

[06:15] Airtable's influence on David's investment philosophy and "operator principles"

[08:34] How Airtable and Zapier help non-developers

[11:29] How did the market change in the last two years

[14:57] The impact of the COVID pandemic and the evolution of venture

[21:56] The best way to increase optionality as an early-stage Founder

[28:09] The Biggest Expense That You're Going to Incur

[32:35] How to get in the mind of the next investor

[33:03] Best practices with allocating to product vs the team behind the product

[39:39] Individual checks: Why is it becoming more common?

[54:04] Growth pillars: The advantage of people who have deep product sophistication

[01:10:18] Prediction for Notion and Airtable in the next few years

[01:14:06] Crypto's impact on the no-code, maker-focused software industry

[01:19:00] What is a Phantom Founder?

[01:21:16] The most overlooked variables when investing in B2B, Enterprise SaaS space

In this episode, I am joined by Darzan Mihai, the Co-Founder of PROCESIO.

Mihai was born and raised in Romania and has 11+ years of experience in software engineering and SMB management, focusing on growing high-performing teams in the B2B software industry.

Mihai and his co-founder bootstrapped PROCESIO — from their company Ringhel — which provides ERP & CRM software for power & gas companies on the Romanian market since 2011. Having identified a need to develop integrations and automation faster using pre-built components for their own clients, they decided to take it a step further and create an enterprise-grade platform that any company or individual with zero to advanced programming skills could use.

In the Summer of 2020, PROCESIO raised their first seed funding round which allowed them to build the MVP. In Spring 2021, they raised a bridge funding round and launched the platform in private beta mode. Then in August 2021, PROCESIO was launched publicly, and their team has grown to 16 members.

Aside from PROCESIO, Mihai is involved with a ton of other startups and angel investments. In 2019 Mihai joined Sparking Capital as LP and Board Member, as well as, TechAngels Romania and Angels Den Funding. Since 2020, he's also been a Partner at Smart Impact Capital.

PROCESIO standardizes how you create, monitor and maintain processes across applications. Technical and business teams can build integrations collaboratively without having to code applications from scratch.In July 2020, PROCESIO set out to raise a $400,000 round to fund their vision for their No-Code Platform-as-a-Service for non-technical people, empowering companies to adjust faster to market changes, with lower costs, using existing business personnel.

PROCESIO successfully raised over $500,000 from 74 investors — far exceeding their goal.

Enjoy this great conversation I had with Darzan Mihai! :)

"We envision our technology to be a core productivity tool used by any company or individual, the default choice to build software integrations and automation."

Highlights:

In today’s episode of In Case You Forgot: The Ownership Economy podcast, I'm joined by Stackby Founder and CEO: Rachit Khator.

Back in 2016, Rachit was working for a Fortune 500 company in the United States, and like many of us, struggling with spreadsheets to manage his day-to-day work. He was using spreadsheets in every way possible: left, right, up, down, and center, but nothing helped him manage all of the company's internal workflows like everyone wanted and wished was possible (at the time!).

So...

With an eye out to better organize data, collaborate with team members, and automate business processes, Rachit exhausted every tool from spreadsheets and CRMs to the plethora of project management tools - only to realize that none of these tools allow you to customize your workflows the exact way you want for your business.

After talking with over 500 professionals across a wide array of industries, Rachit concluded that most people - from Analysts to CEOs - still heavily rely on spreadsheets to organize their work (except their work isn't really that organized!).

With that, an idea emerged:

"How about we build a tool that is as easy to use as a spreadsheet but empowers non-technical users to create their own software the way they want?"

And that's exactly what he did!

Tune in to this podcast episode and learn how Stackby grew from an idea to one of the most popular no-code tools in the world and has already enabled over 10,000 companies across 150+ countries to create their own (super meta - I know!) no-code tools & manage their work in a much better way...

Highlights:

[05:42] What is Stackby?

[09:25] The History of Spreadsheet

[15:24] A problem in 2017 not just for the emerging profession but the rest of the world

[18:20] Things you should know about API’S

[26:40] How Stackby is different from all other table platforms

[01:00:20] How Stackby started and the influences behind it

[01:20:00] The advantage of having the right people in the right place

[01:28:00] Sacrifices made for Stackby

[01:28:00] How Rachit keeps his people motivated

[01:34:14] Stackby’s Approach in hiring, partnerships, content collaboration, and co-marketing

[1:57:35] What you should look forward to from Stackby

Quick Question:

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Thank you for listening! :)

Show Notes Tom Brady is retiring today (officially) and here is Pat McAfee (who if you remember struck a huge deal with FanDuel about a month or two ago for $120 million!) take on Tom Brady retiring https://youtu.be/tg5Pv8MZGyA (0:00 - 2:14) Joe Burrows speech after the Bengals win at Kansas City this weekend on their way to the Super Bowl, take a listen - https://youtu.be/-vSL1-36lcw?t=28 (0:28 - END) Hulu video from S1E1 of Dopesick with Big Pharma introducing the miracle drug: Oxycontin - https://www.hulu.com/watch/48ccc382-71f4-49cb-9f37-394311790a9b Ottawa Canada Freedom Convoy - Whole Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyb1EEKwJC8 Pauly D on if Jersey Shore was scripted - https://youtu.be/uW9WhG5N0JA?t=1207 (20:07-21:12) NFT market is exploding with Opensea’s revenue of $5 BILLION in January for MONTHLY SALES highest since August 2021 - https://youtu.be/-vSL1-36lcw?t=28 (0:28-1:36) MFM with Ryan the Founder of Bolt attacking Y Combinator and Stripe being the Mob. NFT market is exploding with Opensea’s revenue of $5 BILLION in January for MONTHLY SALES highest since August 2021 - https://youtu.be/-vSL1-36lcw?t=28 (0:28-1:36) OVERTAXED - Busy season is here — but some public accountants aren’t - https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22903016/public-accountants-big-quit-memes-reddit - By Elizabeth Lopatto@mslopatto 1:10:34 - 1:12:28 - MFM - How Dao’s will change the world with Ryan Breslow “DAO’s are going to change the world” Elon Musk calls Joe Biden a “damp wet sock” on Twitter - Whole Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lM68lXL9nU Elon Musk’s plane is being tracked with Twitter account and 19-year-old Jack Sweeney wants $50k to stop - article on engaget Substack(s) referenced: https://pursuitofhappiness.substack.com & https://rpa.substack.com & https://ownershipeconomy.substack.com