Ship it and Sip it

"This team will be experts who can do everything on their own — essentially, founders are getting a cool service that is working better and faster." – Art Garadecky Better and faster is Art's thing. This week on Ship it and Sip it, he and John dive into: 🤖 Sales and lead-gen automation 💡 Improving the problem and idea validation process 🛠 Building skills on internal products for our community An...

"You should understand the target audience, their psychology — how they see you and look at you as a brand." – Helen, Designer at Paralect No matter what your startup or small business or established company sells, compelling visual design is a must-have. This week on Ship it and Sip it, John and Helen explore the challenges and opportunities in modern brand design — find out: 🤩 Where she finds i...

Ever wonder how venture capital funds analyse startups and decide which ones they back 🧐 "Startups are making a lot of common mistakes … the key reasons for investing are the team, exit strategy, business model, problem they are trying to solve, and their competitive advantage is extremely important." – Michail Lapidus, Business Analyst at Paralect John brought one of our newest team members to k...

Today's episode of Ship it and Sip it is one of the most unusual. 🗓 Firstly, this is the final episode of the first season of the show. But don't worry! Season 2 will launch in 2022 and that's right around the corner. 🤫 Secondly, in this episode, we turned the tables with a guest host and pulled questions from all the guests we've had so far in season 1. ⚡️ And thirdly, you'll get to know what J...

“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 🚀 Paralect Launch Ecosystem — what does it mean? 💥 What makes Paralect Acce...

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 🔎 Natalia told us all about:...

"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 👉 Want to know more about .NET development? 🚑 Or building a healthtech product? 🔏 Or understand HIPAA compliance? Then this episode of Ship it and Sip it is just for you. Over his 5+ years at Paralect, Sergey has led our...

"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: 🔹the transformation from CTO at Paralect to CEO at DEIP and Veda 🔹updates and upcoming events of Vedai and DEIP 🔹NFTs and the evolutio...

"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: 📝 Her pivot from journalism into business analysis 🤝 How mentorship from...

"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 dove into m...

"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 🚀 This product discovery and design phase includes: 🎉 Design and launch of the VISXA website with sign-up forms 💡 Refining the pr...

"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 🚀 Find out: ✨ What special t...

This week's episode of Ship it and Sip it is fresh and cool like a perfect gin and tonic on a hot day 😎 John got fellow vlogger and front-end code-maestro Mike Gagarin in to chat: 💡 How he moved from design to development 🤔 What one important concept he teaches to new engineers 🙏 Why Paralect is still exciting and engaging for him after almost 5 years And, of course, his (relatively) new video...

Time for Episode 7 of Ship it and Sip it with special guest Victoria Barouskaya 🤝 We explore 🧐 🧭 her journey into project management and Paralec 👉 how she dealt with imposter syndrome at the beginning 💪 and how she's involved with growing the startup ecosystem at her University "I'm really grateful to our team of developers at that time because whenever I had questions about the tech side — t...

Happy Friday, friends! Time for Episode 6 of Ship it and Sip it 🚀 This week Alena Timofeeva, Head of Marketing at Paralect, joined the show to talk brand positioning and more 🤝 From organizing our distributed team to her ideal home office setup to how we can best connect with new and ambitious founders around the world, John and Alena covered a lot over their cuppa tea. Enjoy this sneak peek int...

"I wanted to build a product to help people follow their dreams — how do you find people who really have your best interest at heart and are qualified to help? And I wanted people to give first, to get into that habit of giving before they ask for something." – Julie Landeroin, Founder of Nudge 🤝 Meet Julie, another founder in Batch One of the Paralect Accelerator 🚀 Right now, she's working with...

“The mentality here is different — you’re always looking to not waste a minute, focusing, understanding the plan — what’s the next step? And always happy to help, which I find much more interesting. It’s like building a win-win situation." – Mohamed Abosbanab, Founder of VISXA This is the first of a series of discussions with our founders in Batch One of the Paralect Accelerator 🤝 Right now, they...

Welcome to episode 5 of Ship it and Sip it 🚀 This week, John sat down with Margo to have a look at finding new ideas, making connections with founders around the world and the importance of an inclusive workspace for us at Paralect. Thanks for watching and have a lovely weekend ☀️ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, v...

Ever wonder what goes on 'behind the scenes' in the design dept of those cool tech startups 🤔 Who are these artsy folks in black t-shirts? John invited Paralect's Head of Design Victoriya Antonovich to Ship it and Sip it to dig into product design and our approach to beautiful, intuitive solutions 💡 They focused on the early stages of product discovery, the tools we use to turn ideas into mockup...

🍻 Friday's here and so is episode 3 of Ship it and Sip it 🎉   This week John invited Nikita to the show to talk about his experiences with Paralect Startup Summer and his latest interest in blockchain and crypto 💎 🙌   Nikita's the perfect guy to ask about Startup Summer since he enrolled in the course at the start of his career and was a mentor and teacher last year.  And he'll be back for thi...

Hey friends, today we're happy to have Vladimir Panteleev join Ship it and Sip it 🍻 "For me as a PM, I like happy customers — it's my main motivation. Processes, reports, meetings — I like to see happy faces when I share these things." – Vladimir In case you don't know Vladimir, he's been a long-time project manager and shining light at Paralect for almost 6 years 💪 We discussed: 🤔 Why he likes...

Welcome to Episode One of Ship it and Sip it 🍻   This week our guest is Paralect CTO Igor Krasnik 😎   In our first episode, we dove into a lot of topics including: 🎉 The new insure-tech product and website iMitig8 Risk 👉 www.imitig8risk.com ⚡️ Igor's exploration of no-code and low-code website builders like Webflow, Notion and Tilda 👉 igor.paralect.com 🤩 The 'creator economy' and Igor's mov...

Welcome to a new series from the Paralect Studio 🍻 In our world and the tech world, things happen fast — a dizzying flood of newness from startups and tools and products for all parts of our lives. Sometimes — perhaps in the waning light of a Friday afternoon — you just gotta sit down and dig into it all with a friend or colleague. To see what they think beyond just messenger snippets and emoji r...