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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 playe...

“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,...

"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 t...

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-found...

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...

"I don't ever wanna have this pressure to do something that I don't wanna do just to please some external stakeholder." Is he an indie-hacker or a zen master — a burnt out CTO or a prominent sh*t-poster? This week's guest Stefan Wirth doesn't fit neatly into boxes. We dive into the nuance of making business bets and Stefan's vision of building calm startups without the external pressure and contro...

Sarah Abou Ghaida joins us to describe the inspiration behind her fashion-tech startup Moodahub . She's one of 2 founders who went through both Nano Grit and the Bootcamp and is now working with her MVP team in the Paralect Accelerator to launch Moodahub soon 🚀 We uncover: • What pushed her to start working on this solution now. • Who can learn more about lookin good on Moodahub • Why sustainabil...

"You have to be really obvious in your pitch about what is this huge problem that you're tackling. Our deck starts out with 'We are declaring war on poverty' — like, boom, it hits you right off the bat." This week's guest Daniel Walsh from VeroSkills shares the 3-year journey from the idea to current growth of his mission-driven learning platform. Along the way, we explore: 🤑 The business model w...

If there's one person with the perspective to blast open the hood of product discovery in Nano — it's Kseniya! Now CPO at Paralect, she also joined the first Accelerator batch 2 years ago on team Nudge and still works closely with founder Julie to this day. But Paralect is change, so the same framework we used in Batch 1 doesn't apply anymore 🚀 'Cause now there's: ⚒️ Nano Grit and 🥾 Nano Bootcam...

“The fact is we need more small founders, we need them succeeding — instead of big tech taking away all the money and storing it in tax havens.” We got into: • Why interns specifically are a great fit for small, lean startup teams • How Sachin's Insta brand is different from his brand as Leap Room founder • What insights he brings to building in public as a result of his creator experience • Who's...

This is Pasha's story — a young man who dreamed of building rockets but now leads the long-standing product team goLance and launches his own ideas 🚀 From a hasty student decision to apply to the Startup Summer dev program to joining Buildspace and launching Blitz in 6 weeks. Five years of building, mentoring, leading and teaching — but keeping it fun all along the way. So how did he answer that...

Workouts are all about getting fit or fast or just getting rid of some stress from the day. Then why do so many people spend their workout time glued to a phone screen? It seems counter-productive to me and Carousel Boxing founder Norris Panton. He's just wrapped up the Nano Grit challenge to gain traction for Carousel's audio-driven training sessions. Sound like it could get you moving? Tune in t...

"A lot of these note-taking apps have been implementing AI inside them … I thought it was very interesting, but it seemed like it was implemented as an afterthought or something that's added on. I thought this could be done better — so why not create an AI-first document editor." Catch the full show to find out: • What you can make when text and image generation happen right there in one doc • Why...

"I prefer to visualize everything because this is the fastest way to explain the whole idea, to split everything into tasks and to deliver something." Product Board founder Alexey Yanushkevich joined Nano Grit with the vision to help founders clarify their startup idea as quickly as possible. Together with clever AI tools, founders can use Product Board to scope, validate, and organize their produ...

Founder Vanessa Franz sees a future where creators of all kinds can easily show their value, engage with their audience and carve out their space to grow. And from her chats with them, she knows there is a huge demand and growing interest from viewers. But: • the processes are opaque • returns for creators are hit or miss • and brands expectations don't always align with the creators. Dive into th...

"We have fallen before, we always get up. We don't know how to fail and we don't know how to stop. It's a little bit like that Kobe Bryant Mamba mentality — that's what we have absolutely in common." That's the mindset Brittany and AR Bell bring to their startup Gametime Hero . They're on a mission to build a better digital space for sports lovers to connect, plan or join events and play more, sim...

That awareness and alignment is what Cameron is hoping to enable with FForwardAI . So how can that happen? Well, you could be like Cameron and ask for a decision log after each pull request — but like he found out, that's hard to scale. So FForward's here to automate and slot smoothly into the decision-making process. Have a look, Cameron's been building startups since pre-iPhone days so he brings...

When it comes to health, fitness and diet advice — everyone brings their own experiences and biases to what works. But we're all n=1 in our training journey. That's where Hoku founder Kavita thinks that AI can deliver more personalized support. We chat about how Kavita:• is learning the art of sales and marketing in Nano• believes Hoku will make healthy habits easier and more consistent• thinks ot...

The instant success stories are mostly myths. But Maya's path as a startup founder uncovers the real thing. There are no magic hacks — she set out to build a solution to a problem she and her community experienced. But first she had to learn Bubble, talk through the features and eventually bring InterviewJam to life with a Product Hunt launch this spring. Along the way, she: 🐦 Jumped into the Bui...

Late last summer, we welcomed Alena Lysiakova to our content and marketing team 🤝 During the interview, we asked her what she thought about going public and sharing about the work on social channels. She seemed willing but not overly excited — but this year that all changed 🚀 And now she's flourishing with Copy & Coffee and inspires us on a daily basis 💪 Here's what we got into on this episode:...

This interview answers all those questions and probably some you hadn't thought of. Chris Fernandes and Victoria Antonovich are the guiding forces behind the Bootcamp and the Accelerator. We outline:🧭 the path for founders from Nano Grit 👉 Bootcamp 👉 Accelerator📈 the outcomes from Bootcamp batch 1 + what's better for batch 2📍 what founders will leave each stage with — hint: users, clarity, co...

His entrepreneurial journey started at 16 and now he's dedicated to helping founders find the perfect guidance to reach product-market fit and then scale beyond it. Since PMF is an important, but often mis-understood concept, we went way into it and discussed: * What the common blockers are for founders on the path to PMF * How we can quantify progress towards it * Why founders benefit from fracti...

This week we return to the very start with our first guest Igor Krasnik. "I started writing in my blog, started trying to understand Twitter and Linkedin. The Accelerator launch was the reason why I started building in public and the gains that I got keep me continuing doing that. It's a wonderful way to grow personally and to launch products." – Igor We caught up on:✍️ Igor's evolution from writi...

With simple tools, consistency building in public and grit — the answer is a lot 📈 "It's given me a chance to really focus on the MVP and where that needs to be niched down to. I had the pleasure of speaking to over 200 PTs — the waiting list grew a lot further than I expected." – Sam Cholera, founder of PT Fitness Coach "Talking about this idea in public was a big thing for me — when you go to t...

That's what Ethan Summers and the team at Extelli do — and the solution sits right in Chrome ready to use in a flash. This interview uncovers: 🪜 Ethan's path to entrepreneurship from hardware to software + joining Harmony Venture Labs 🧠 How teams of all sizes use Extelli — from small startups to established orgs 💡 Why it's key to retain workflows, info and know-how in any team — hint: it saves...