Startup Architects

Justice Mvemba is the Founder of Dekoloniale Stadtführung, a Berlin based city tour community. In this episode Justice shares with us her experiences founding a company as a person of colour in Germany. We also have special guest co-host this week - Rahaf Abu Alhassan - a long time friend of the show and host of her own podcast D.O.P.E Talks. This episodes sheds light on world of racial bias in the startup world and the difficulties minorities can face as founders. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Tim Noack is the Founder of Non-Profit-Project Mantahari. An organization with the goal of removing plastics from the worlds oceans. In this episode Tim talks to us about how to organize and run a non profit organization, how he got started, the challenges he faced along the way and advice he has gained to share with other founders. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Cilia Laug Co-Founder of Tribu Berlin, Entrepreneur and Angel Investor. In todays episode we talk about how Cilia has launched her companies and some of her war stories so far. We also take a dive into the investing and how to find super users for your product. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Mustafa is the Founder and CEO of Preflight - an intelligent NoCode testing tool. Preflight is a YC funded start-up. In this episode we talk about how Mustafa built and structured his teams and has managed scaling over the years. Mustafa applied to YC several times before securing funding and he shares how this application process was for him and gives some advise to anyone thinking of doing the same. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

John Britton is a tech evangelist, community builder, investor and entrepreneur. Formerly of Twilio, GitHub and Microsoft, John is the current the Founder & CEO of Raise.dev and is in the process of building his new project, YesCode. In this episode we take a dive into what YesCode is and the potential YesCode tools have to change the developer experience. We also talk investment, John's experience in finding funding as well as becoming an investor himself. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Noam Gerstein is the CEO & Founder of Bina, a transnational primary school, delivering precision primary education at scale. In this episode we explore how Noam came to launch her company, how she identifies problem that need solving and how you can decide when an idea is worth building a company around. Sign up for the Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Lilith is the Co-Founder of VisualMakers, a learning platform for Low and No-code tools. Their mission is the democratize tech by making technical tool accessible to everyone. In this episode we take a deep dive into the No-code movement, the tools available and their advantages and disadvantages for young start ups. For 20% off VisualMakers Masterclasses (Bubble and Make) use the code: Codesphere20 You can find the masterclasses here: Bubble: https://www.visualmakers.de/bubble-masterclass-online-training Make: https://www.visualmakers.de/make-integromat-masterclass-online-training Sign up for the Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

José Velez is the Founder & CEO of detech.ai, a reliability intelligence platform. In this episode we explore what reliability intelligence is, why it is so important for start-ups to implement and why it is still over looked by young companies. Sign up for the Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Emil is the former CPO & Co-Founder of store2be, he is now the head of product at Workwise and a startup mentor specialising in product management. In this episode we talk about what the role of a product team/manager should be, when a startup may want to bring in a product specialist and how to build your product with effective research and development methods. Sign up for the Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Jakob Knutzen is the CEO & Co-Founder of Butter, a holistic workshop and collaboration meeting platform. In this episode Jakob shares how they launched their MVP within just a few weeks, how to build and manage a fully remote international team, and some of the tools Butter has used along their journey to facilitate their successful growth. Sign up for the Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Jonas Menesklou Managing Director and Co-Founder at askui, a UI testing automation tool. In this episode we take a dive into testing automation, how to effectively implement it on your platform and why it is so important to adopt the right testing methods. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

John Edgar is the former Director of Community at DeviantArt and VP of Strategy at DigitalOcean. In this episode we talk about how to build and maintain a community around your product, what leadership means and how to grow your brand. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Clara Jungblut is a branding and UX/UI designer. Clara specialises in helping Startup's build their brand with her company Youngblood studio. In this episode we talk about the biology behind communicating the why of your product before the how and what, how to speak to speak to your users and how to build a successful brand. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Jonathan Farrow is a Technical Product Manager for Silverfin and formerly a Senior PM for PlayStation and Rolls-Royce. In this episode we discuss how and when start-ups can incorporate deep learning and machine learning into their product development cycle. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Marius is Co-founder and CEO of heyvie, entrepreneur and all-round product specialist. In this episode we talk about how to identify, target and communicate with your target audience. Why is it important to find them and how do you maintain good relationships? Lets ask Marius... Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Roman Frolov is a Co-founder and Engineering Manager at Codesphere, he is also the former CTO and Co-founder to TAU. In this episode we talk about how to pick the right tech stack, building dev team culture and smart deployment processes. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Michal Gornisiewicz is the Chief Architect at Codesphere, Michal spent 10 years as a software engineer at Google working on many of their products, in this episode he shares the wisdom he picked up along the way. We also dive into the developer experience, how it has (or hasn't) changed over the years and what the future may hold for cloud developers. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

Elias Groll is Co-founder and CEO of Codesphere, he is also a former Google software engineer and a founding engineer of Vectornator. This episode is all about how to get a startup off the ground, validating your idea, getting funding and finding MVP... Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn

In this pilot episode we talk about what to expect from the Startup Architects podcast, who we plan to speak to and how you can use the knowledge to build your startup the right way. Sign up for Codesphere here: https://codesphere.com/ Stay connected: LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook Dan Parry LinkedIn | Twitter Tim Stephens LinkedIn