No Office Nozbe

You've got to listined to this episode if you've ever been caught up in great stories about startups and entrepreneurs who raised venture capital got lavish in luxury!Michael Sliwinski the CEO of Nozbe talks to Rand Fishkin, the cofounder and CEO of SparkToro and MOZ (2001-2018) and author of Lost and Founder.
⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:
- Why Venture is wrong to almost everyone but it is marketed to all of us…- What to do if you really want to earn a lot of money vs. what to do if you want to stay independent and call the shots.- What you have to prove to your customer to get their support and trust- Why you want to develop your company based on core values that are important to you- …and how Apple is compromising their core values on the App Store.
🔥 Highlights: 
- 99.9% companies ane entrepreneurs should not go raise ventrue capital. - 15-20 venture-backed companies still exist after 5 years - a huge amount go bankrupt. Listen to learn why.- If you want to make money, get a job in Amazon, Facebook, Google and get promoted a few times. If you want to stay independent, call the shots, take the meetings that you want to take - venture is not for you either.- The number of folks who make millions of dollars from an acquisition of a venture-backed startup is vanishingly small - less 1 in 1000 companies that try to raise venture will get to that scenario…

🔗 Show notes

Rand's books: Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
Rand's company: SparkToro
MOZ - Rand's startup acquired by iContact Marketing Corp., 17 years after launch
How Michael dealt with rising prices of Nozbe

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Creators & Guests


Michael Sliwinski - Host

Rand Fishkin - Guest

(00:00) - 🎶 INTRO
(00:49) - 👯‍♂️ Online friendship
(07:11) - 🥽 Vision Pro
(27:17) - 💜 Nozbe
(29:54) - 🤯 Is Vision Pro a revolution?
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Michael Sliwinski - Host

Augusto Pinaud - Guest

Tadam! Michael and Rafal are back. In this episode, our hosts talk about interviewing customers, which every company or product owner should do to grow their business.
⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:
- Why you should talk to your customers- How to conduct the interviews with people who use your products or services- What information you want to get from these online meetings with your customers- Why is it essential to use the 5 Whys method and dig to the source of the problem customers mention.- How new Nozbe time parameters work and what other new features we've recently introduced in Nozbe.
We try to avoid meetings in our company. If we allow them to happen, they should be: optional, regular, and well-prepared. And so are the meetings we have with our customers. See in what way.
⏭️ Chapters:


(00:00) - 🎶 INTRO
(00:28) - 📈 Podcast and data
(01:17) - 💛 Feedback from customers
(04:07) - 🤝 Meetings with customers
(16:13) - 🧘‍♀️ Work Life Balance in Nozbe
(18:27) - 🆕 New Features 🎉
(26:03) - 💪 #MightyFriday

🔗 Show notes

New features in Nozbe
Meet your customers
Book a demo of Nozbe

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Michael Sliwinski - Host

Rafał Sobolewski - Host

Here is a reunion of David Allen, author of the GTD methodology and Michael who created the first GTD-based productivity app. They talk about the post-pandemic reality in organizations and try to figure out the best way to introduce holocracy and GTD in a team.  


(00:00) - 🎶 INTRO
(00:33) - Guest Introduction
(02:48) - GTD after pandemic
(05:45) - Weekly Review
(12:47) - Holocracy and GTD
(26:52) - David's work today
(30:10) - Outro
"GTD"! Sounds familiar? If so, then get the latest updates and tips from its "father" - David Allen himself. If no, then get to know one of the best productivity methodologies and find out what it takes to get organized.
Michael wants to know about GTD for teams… David always emphasizes that:
1. capture, 2. clarify, 3. organize, 4. reflect, 5. engage
—are the steps that successful teams do to maintain control and focus.
Find out what other tips he offers and how he thinks holocracy works in companies and how to introduce it in an organization.

🔗 Show notes

David Allen on GTD in a team 
What is holocracy
Mighty Fridays at Nozbe

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Michael Sliwinski - Host

David Allen - Guest

Why bother with the time and expense of live conferences while there are so many great ways to improve your skills these days? Rafal will tell you about it based on his latest experience of the Product Camp conference.
🍏 Our host will also tell you about their WWDC 2022 delights: Stage Manager, External Monitor support for iPad, Shared Photo Library, New Home app, Custom Lock Screen and more.
⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:
- 🏡  Strange customs we have in Nozbe - 🙋  Why would you go to a in-person conference- 🍏  Best features announced at WWDC 2022 keynote

🔗 Show notes

Product Camp
WWDC 2022
Back pack we branded with the Nozbe logo

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Moving from your office to another place where you can do your job or associating a given place with a particular type of work can help you beat procrastination and help you find focus. Listen how!
⭐️ Key things you will learn from this episode:

📆 Changes to our podcast recording frequency
🏡 Does NoOffice approach means only working from home?
👋 How to beat the weekly review-related procrastination
👉 Ideas and tips for changing work environmen
🔗 Show notes

A chapter from Michael's No Office book
Nozbe vlog - how we run weekly review in Nozbe
AirPods Pro
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