Splinter Business Stories

Jun 16 2020
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A witty, sarcastic podcast where we talk about business as it is. No happy Start-up hysteria or stories of success. We are real and we talk about business failures and the ways to avoid them. Splinter Business Stories is about you, the millennial tech community. Here you will find real-life business cases, practical pieces of advice and fun facts about your daily office routine which will blow your mind. Everyone is welcome and everyone is accepted. Your A, Bisou bisou XO

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What was first, product or marketing? A post-corona conversation with Ish Verduzco

Jun 16 2020 45 mins  
The guest of today's episode of Splinter Business Stories is Ish Verduzco: Diversity lead, DJ, author and awesome tech marketer Your fellow IT comrade does her best in bringing resourceful and insightful, smart, and exceptional guests to this podcast. I am happy to share today's episode with a great fellow tech marketer, and a person who has is all done in his way! And he knows how

Start-Up 101 with Greg Shepard: From idea to business exit

Apr 28 2020 51 mins  
This is the second Episode of Splinter Business Stories with angel investor and entrepreneur Greg Shepard.  Probably this is the most insightful conversation in the entire show. If you always wanted to realize your idea, plan investment, and learn about the  "backstage" of start-ups and finance, you are at the right place here and now.  Together with Greg, we follow

A big conversation with angel investor Greg Shepard: How to quit businesses, survive the crisis, and follow your principles

Apr 21 2020 65 mins  
The guest of today's episode of Splinter Business Stories is Greg Shepard, entrepreneur, author, and angel investor. His investment firm, BOSS Capital Partners, helps startups on their seed stage. Today's episode is a profound, funny, and insightful conversation with a person who had multiple businesses and who has seen many companies rise and fall.  We did our best to cover n

For the sake of bygone days: Office tales

Mar 31 2020 11 mins  
In this Episode of Splinter Business Stories, your fellow IT comrade talks about hustles and bustles of working from home. No worries, you can find useful tips for remote employees in your LinkedIn feeds, I am not going to give you this information because: a. It's boring b. you perfectly know how to work from home ;) and if you don't, you'll learn.  In this episode, I gathere

Epic Job Interview Stories You Will Not Believe

Feb 19 2020 15 mins  
In this episode of Splinter Business Stories, I tell you the job interview stories of my friends and LinkedIn connections who were generous enough to share their experiences.  A job interview is never a usual routine, it’s always a nerve breaking process of gathering all the possible achievements you ever had in one successful image of yourself, and this can be tough. So. Th

The Tale of the "Boys' Club"

Feb 11 2020 15 mins  
Hello-hello from your fellow IT comrade who had quite a winter: flu, cold, bronchitis, winter melancholy...I am finally back with a new episode.  In this episode of Splinter Business Stories, I talk about the "Boys' Club" and the reasons we do not see enough females among key decision-makers, managers, and stakeholders. This is my personal manifesto to all the female professio

Automation: the end of our careers or new beginning? A big conversation with automation expert Danilo McGarry

Jan 09 2020 65 mins  
What do we know about automation? It's efficient. It helps in accomplishing goals faster and with fewer resources. And we know for sure that deep inside, we are all a bit afraid that automation of the workflow will take away our jobs and kill ambitions of career growth.  We might be against it. We might support the implementation of automation in the work processes. Still, we

What happens when you get the most epic client of your life and other IT tales of 2019

Jan 05 2020 19 mins  
Hello and welcome. This is the first episode of 2020 and the last episode talking about 2019. We have entered a new decade and I wanted to dedicate this episode to some interesting facts and stories that happened to me back in 2019.  It was a fruitful year, full of ups and downs. I have started many new projects including Splinter Business Stories Podcast. Its been a couple of

Remote employee tales

Dec 10 2019 12 mins  
In this episode, I uncover some of the most contradictory working approaches existing at the moment. Remote vs onsite. What is better for productivity and business efficiency, especially when it comes to tech? Even though there are so many contradictions and endless discussions, the remote is slowly becoming a new standard of work. Whether you like it or not, people need the flexib

Meetings in Tech: Time-consuming Nightmares or Productivity Boosters?

Nov 26 2019 14 mins  
This episode is fully dedicated to the meetings. The inevitable part of our working life which eats hours of our time and sometimes gets on our nerves. Why do people like to attend meetings? For some, it’s a perfect opportunity to train their bullshitting skills and make their empty talks perfect. For others, it’s a great way of spending a couple of hours hibernating and enteri