Lessons From Digital Crafting

Lessons From Digital Crafting

Join us as we chat with founders who have turned their early ideas into successful product launches, sharing invaluable lessons learned along the way. Lessons From Digital Crafting is a podcast by Z1, hosted by Michelle Reid and Héctor Giner.

Episodes

June 18, 2024 44 mins
In this episode of Lessons From Digital Crafting, we chat with Chris Castig, who has developed dozens of digital products for seed-stage startups and top brands. Experienced in growth and strategy, Chris has a successful track record of launching digital products that customers love. 

Today, we spoke with him about his role as co-founder of Console, an all-in-one community-building platform with Web3 features developed in partnershi...
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In this episode of Lessons From Digital Crafting, we chat with Matt Stein, an environmental engineer from Stanford who built the app Wheeli while having a full-time, high-level executive job.

We cover:
  • How to balance time and attention when building off the side of your desk.
  • What are the best collaborative tools.
  • How to not get lost in an iterative process.
  • How to plan each milestone around specific budget constraints to get to th...
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August 3, 2023 34 mins
In this Z1's Lessons From Digital Crafting episode, we share some of the pains and some of the excitement a solo founder finds in her journey. From detecting a real problem to be solved to crafting the first version of an app to solve that specific problem. We talk about:
  • The importance of finding a partner you can collaborate with in building your business. Not someone who just follows your instructions, but someone who underst...
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In this episode of Z1's Lessons From Digital Crafting, we talk with Eric Mayville and Andrew Haynes, CEO & CoFounder, VP, Executive Creative Director, from Fairgame, about how they crafted a digital solution that transformed their love for golf into their business.

You’ll learn:

- How to craft a digital solution for an industry related to your personal life.
- What are the main challenges of finding and translating the complexitie...
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In this first episode of Z1's Lessons From Digital Crafting, we talk with Stuart Winchester, CEO + Founder, and Adi Sundar, CTO of the NY-based fintech startup Marble.

Listen to this episode to learn:
- what research activities are appropriate while first validating an early idea
- how design and engineering teams work together to translate "analog" processes (insurance is full of them) into digital
- or how to balance maintaining a ce...
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