First-time founder Kate Novoselova — life in Portugal and building a community-first app

"Let's say you relocate, or go to Portugal on a business trip. We wanna build the app for people who are traveling a lot and change places a lot — you don't know people there but you want to somehow have a quality time." – Kate Novoselova This week's show explores a bunch of fun topics with our teammate Kate. Mostly they revolve around the theme of community and its many forms, including: How her perspective on our relationship with founders has evolved Finding and developing connections with early-stage investors Working as a team in Portugal and meeting digital nomads there Throwing events that bring the startup community together And how she's bringing her experience of helping founders into her own founder journey together with Victoriya Antonovich. "For us, it's our problem — so we are solving our problem first and we do understand so we will use this app. We discovered when we did this offline event in Lisbon — for people it's very difficult to make connections, to make new friends. Our idea is to make it give the feeling of the vibe of the person." If you're in Portugal, keep an eye out for new events from Kate and Vika and enjoy the show 🍻 Check out their app — Altos here: altos-app.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shipandsip.substack.com