My business model is the way it is because of the fact that I work with early-stage start-ups. In this episode, I am going to explain why it is so important that your service providers, partners, and vendors have a similar operating model to your business! If you found value Read more…
This image is from sunny and windy Cancun. 🏖 Since you have followed me for some time, you realized by now that I am always on the move. During the last 3 years, I worked from Singapore, Cran Canaria, Austrian spas, rain forests of Costa Rica, Mexican beaches, Mallorca, vineyards of Read more…
Today I wanted to give you a quick overview of the concept of international sanctions, how they work and how they may impact a FinTech company, especially from the standpoint of technical implementation and tools. Warning: this is not compliance training. 😉 There are so many conspiracy theories, wrong interpretations, Read more…
How much harder do I need to try to make this work? Listen as Tom and Yana discuss when it’s time to stop trying to make something work and move on to another project. Tom believes that many startups don’t take the metrics game seriously enough, and they pay for Read more…
What is the difference between just in case and just in time? Listen as Tom and Yana speak about the difference between iterate or architect, how much time we need to get from an idea to a product, and what ontology means. They also share the much-awaited name of their Read more…
Do you feel freedom as an entrepreneur? Listen as Yana and Tom discuss this and the four liberating examples Yana and her friend came up with and how they relate to freedom. Tom and Yana also share their predictions for the economy in the next few months, and as strange Read more…
Listen in as your hosts Yana and Tom discuss the third phase of their digital project. They speak about distractions and what qualifies as one. Yana and Tom also chat about improvising and having uncommon scenarios that you want to achieve and whether or not that is a good thing. Read more…
When should a new startup become profitable? Listen as Tom and Yana discuss 4 key steps to profitability in this episode of the Hole in the Whole podcast. Their views on this are different as usual but entertaining nevertheless. Yana lays out a 4-phase pricing ascension model for new startups, Read more…
Welcome to episode 19 of The Hole in the Whole. Your hosts Yana and Tom with a guest Nina Portier Reinhart talk about how kids being exposed to entrepreneurship early in their lives can make a difference. If you enjoy this episode, please share it with friends, leave comments, and Read more…
