The Roadmap DECODE

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

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

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

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

In this episode we are joined by, Munawar Ahmed, who is a partner at Oliver Wyman, a global consultancy firm based in New York. Together with Munawar, the CEO of our company shares his insights on the effects of context switching in software development.

In this episode, we are joined by Luciana Gasser, Co-founder and CEO of Cheers Contracts, a platform for managing legal documents. Luciana shares her story about how she and her partner founded a startup and tackled problems along the way.