The Roadmap

The Roadmap

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The Roadmap episodes

  • #18 Software startup and investor relationship: 
key advice to make it work

    Our latest guest on The Roadmap is Chris Piedmonte, an angel investor with over 30 years of experience. In the first episode with Chris, we talked about what angel investors are looking for in startups when investing. This time Chris shares what happens after an investment has been made and what startup should be focusing on.



    (0:00) Intro

    (3:39) Angel investor expectations
    (6:27) What if things go bad?
    (10:10) Angel investors as business advisors
    (13:33) MVP as a starting point
    (16:30) Using MVPs to discover more
    (21:31) Startup transparency
    (25:37) Tech adviser
    (29:41) Choosing the right technology
    (35:21) Scaling apps
    (38:43) Tech vendors qualities
    (42:38) Wrap-up

    45 min
  • #17 Experienced startup founder shares key steps to building a successful startup

    William Neill, the co-founder and CPO of Basket, a shopping wishlist app, shares his journey of founding a startup and handling business challenges along the way.


    0:00 Intro
    (1:20) About Basket
    (2:31) Getting the idea for Basket
    (6:31) Building the MVP
    (10:50) Choosing the technology
    (12:58) Learning from the MVP
    (17:38) Handling the data
    (19:24) Marketing and launch strategy
    (25:41) Finding and retaining customers
    (33:45) Product roadmap
    (39:29) Seamless User experience
    (44:53) Lessons learned
    (52:28) Full-remote company

    57 min
  • #16 Fintech expert explains the future of 
digital banking and software privacy

    What's the future of our IDs? According to the European Commission, by 2030 around 80% of EU citizens should have digital IDs.

    The long journey to digital transformation of our IDs, which can be both beneficial for our privacy and using various apps and software is explained by Robert Ilijas, the CEO and founder of Identyum.



    0:00 Intro
    (3:47) Fin-tech trends
    (5:21) About Identyum
    (8:16) Using digital IDs
    (10:20) Institutional approval
    (12:54) Finding a market niche
    (15:46) ID wallets as a solution
    (22:09) Future of digital IDs
    (25:37) Integrating software with digital IDs
    (27:50) Security and privacy of customers
    (32:46) Threats to user privacy
    (34:42) GDPR compliance
    (36:47) Closing thoughts

    40 min
  • #15 Software team lead explains how to adapt to enterprise-level projects

    Working on enterprise-level projects is quite different from working on smaller projects. Codebase size, coding standards, documentation and many other factors all have to be taken more seriously, as enterprise-level projects have high standards.

    In this episode, Ivan Trogrlic, the Android Team Lead at DECODE explains what’s it like to work on such projects.

    (0:00) Intro

    (4:12) Working on smaller projects
    (9:33) Self-testing
    (12:34) Importance of unit testing
    (19:05) Enterprise level projects
    (22:48) Codebase size and complexity
    (25:43) Coding standards and guidelines
    (30:52) Testing and quality assurance
    (34:42) Documentation
    (39:58) Software development mistakes
    (43:04) Closing thoughts

    49 min

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