MaxCast

In this episode Max and Yalim talk about Yalim's move to US, Estonia e-residency, Brexit, the closing window of opportunity for European startups, Turkey's amazing success in exporting TV shows , Apsiyon, a successful startup from Turkey and the importance of finding its niche for a startup.

In this episode of MaxCast, we talk about the E2 visa option to move to US , how recent events in Turkey effect the local startup ecosystem, migration of talent and immigration in Europe, Farmeron's acquisition, the Prisma app and alternatives to the Sunrise app.

In this episode of MaxCast, we talk about Product Hunt as a distribution channel for Podcasts, Twitter's questionable value as a social network, Google's new app Spaces vs. Postly, every big company competing with everyone on every category, the rise of niche companies, Balaji Srinivasan's webinar about Bitcoin and machine to machine payable web and Tim Cook at a government run startup event in Europe.

In the 14th episode of MaxCast we talk about Sunrise the calendar app and the fate of startups after acquisition, Viv the new AI company and potential business models of AI companies. and angel investing.

In this episode of Maxcast, we talk about the beautiful city of Bologna, the login conference in Lithuania (including an interview with Andrii Degeler about start up public relations), the importance of speaking colloquial English to participate in the new globally connected world and the state of artificial intelligence.

In this episode of MaxCast, we talk about the business culture in Silicon Valley, the new European startup Testlio and Yalim's plan to move his company to US.

In this episode, we talk about Solu, a new kind of computer, webinars, chatbots, coursera, udemy, iPhone SE, Apple as a luxury brand.

In this episode, we talk about Kickstarter, Google's Project Fi, Apple's cloud troubles with photos as Google Photos comes to the rescue, 16GB iPhones, Apple Stores only selling Macs with minimum configuration, Twitter's missed opportunities, Revue the website to publish newsletters and Donald Trump.

In this episode, we dig the cliche "Apple doesn't get the cloud" and come up with actual examples, discuss the war that's starting to heat up in the Enterprise Cloud business between AWS, Microsoft, Oracle and IBM and the future of venture capital market for startups.

In this episode of MaxCast, we talk about Max as a World citizen, the value of meeting people face to face, how Internet can replace the trust built with face to face meetings, Balaji S. Srinivasan's talk about opting out, founding a new country as a start up , fragmentation in messaging apps and their potential as the next big application platform, Spotify's and other music streaming services' odd business models.

In the 7th episode of MaxCast, Max and Yalim talk about benefits of traveling all the time, how the President of US spend his salary, if it makes sense for startups to have a booth at big conferences, Yalim's adventures while inviting people to present at his monthly webinars, Monument the smart photo management device,  Otto Radio the personal radio for commuters, FaceTime as the killer feature of an actual Apple TV set,  the overly complicated sticker game in the Swarm app and Rego the private Swarm-Foursquare alternative.

In this episode of MaxCast, Postly co-founder Aron Beierschmitt joins us to talk about Postly and its place in the social networking space. Next Max and Yalim talk about Max's new job at Cross Border Angels, Max's trip to Moldova for a startup event, the Wikipedia game,  Apple Music's launch in Turkey, Uber's redesign,  LinkedIn's missed opportunity and Twitter's challenge to bring back users who abandoned the service.

In this latest MaxCast episode, Yalim says he's committed to building the Wikipedia game we discussed in episodes 03 and 04. Max talks about his latest startup travel, this time to Moscow as a judge of Eurasia Mobile Challenge, where he met teams from 7 different ex-USSR places. Yalim and Max also discuss low-end smart watches, comparing Vector Watch to HP's Isaac Mizrahi series. Yalim also found a new company that does online PR for a fee; Max is skeptical, he thinks that paying for startup PR masks early product problems.

In the forth episode of MaxCast, we talk about apps built on open data sets such as Maps.me and Inquire, the beauty of Wikipedia, why Twitter would be better off as a non-profit, Max's great Wikipedia game,  Prototyping apps Creo and Framer, startup valuation crunch, Uber's amazing valuation, famous people talking about startups and Davos

In this episode of MaxCast, we talk about Max's travels, Arab Mobile Challenge, Netflix, the recent Bitcoin debacle, the terrible design of Apple TV remote, the iOS features we just gave up on, Yalim's prediction for Apple, Foursquare's new funding round and Postly the app we use to prepare for this podcast

In the second episode of MaxCast, we review Fred Wilson's new year predictions, Spotify's success despite Apple Music, Bitcoin, Paul Graham's article on inequality, webinars and Twitter's new 10K character limit.

In the first episode of MaxCast, we talk about Max's travels around the world, the startup communities in Balkans and Egypt, Prezi, Spotify and Peter Sunda's latest blog post called Put Yourself On Fire.