Loading...

Clarity

Yossi Mlynsky

Johannesburg

Hi there.... a bit about me
★ Founder @ Alt Tab Mobile (www.alttabmobile.com)
★ Designing & Building awesome mobile products for startups
★ Solid Product Management background in both startup and corporate environments including Product Manager @ Macquarie Bank (Online Share Trading)
★ Great at bringing together a team and building a business on a shoestring!
★ Husband & Father of 4
★ Looking for Advisors and guidance of how to take my business to the next level.
★ Would also like to help startups in any way, especially around development processes and mobile related stuff

See my full profile on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/ymlynsky

Free

Yossi donates to charity: water ($0.00)

8 Calls

18 Reviews

—

Avg. call

Start-ups Startups Product Management User Experience Android iphone E-commerce PHP Mobile Technology Mobile Devices

Answers 2
Reviews 18

Answers

Yossi Mlynsky answered

What tips would you provide for existing entrepreneur who's about to become a father for the first time, and wants to continue growing their startup?

Hey,

I am a father of 5 children, the youngest 5 months and the oldest 8 years.

During this time, I started my own company 3 years ago. I have also recently been working on a new product that is just about to be released to market. 2 months ago, my 5 year old was diagnosed with Leukaemia (don't worry, he is doing fine), This involves spending a bunch of time in the hospital with him etc.. I know a bunch about managing a family while running a business. Some of my tricks:
- I choose to work with people who also understand the important of family time
- I work hard, but play hard too, happy to work 18 hours straight. But also expect to be able to turn off completely when needed.
- Manage people expectations. Book meetings and never miss them, not even 1 minute late. But if your workmate/client downs
- I work from home most of the time, so can quickly go inside and read the kids a quick story or drink a glass of wine with my wife.
- I use Asana, a great project management tool to run my business. I turn off notifications and when I have time to focus, I can process all tasks for all the projects I am working on.
- I am passionate about what I do, and somehow have been able to convince my wife in the same. I suppose without this point, you might have an issue. You need to be able to justify that spending some time away from the family is worth it.
- Realize that the first year is going to be pretty hectic, but you are not as important and needed as your would like to think you are. With all my kids, my deeper relationship kicked in from the age of 2 and above when I could take them to all sorts of cool places.
- Some advice for later. Keep sunday free for just family time, and take the kids to cool places!

Schedule a call • Share • Flag

Entrepreneurship

Parenting

Yossi Mlynsky answered

Is changing my personal name (or use another name) good for business?

I would say the following
- If is is hard to pronounce or spell, I would adapt it
- I would NOT go for a totally americanized name like Mike, that is craziness.
- My name is Yosef, but I go with Yossi to make it easier. With my name Yossi Mlynsky - SEO of my name is great!
- I love the name Misha = stick with it.
- You can create a company or LLC for clients to send checks to.

Schedule a call • Share • Flag

Branding & Identity

Marketing

Business Strategy

Reviews

I would have to say that I have always had a lot of confidence in Yossi's work, both at Shindig People and other environments I have seen him in. His professionalism is solid, as is his drive to get a project finished and delivered at various stages to clients. He is an ideas man, both from a Technical viewpoint and a Business vantage point.

I would recommend him to any firm.

Shimon Friedman Source: LinkedIn

Yossi showed good initiative and thought in getting to the bottom of a problem or issue. His knowledge and perspective that he brought to the project where greatly appreciated.

Tony Nguyen Source: LinkedIn

Yossi got on very well with the business and did a great job putting together the business requirements and business process mapping documents. He also coordinated the training and user acceptance testing and made a valuable contribution to the daily scrums.

I'd happily work with him again.

Richard Measures Source: LinkedIn

Yossi has an amazing ability to focus on the technical detail while never loosing sight of the bigger picture. When it comes to online marketing and web consulting, Yossi delivers outstanding value by uncovering ALL the possible opportunities, leading to better results and returns for clients.

Martin Scicluna Source: LinkedIn

First rate problem solver and true team worker.

Jeremy Guth Source: LinkedIn

Highly focused, with a keen attention to detail. Always strives to deliver first rate work. Easy to work with, honest and communicable.

Jeremy Guth Source: LinkedIn

Yossi is a focused Business Analyst, problem solver and the guy you go to when you need requirements from stakeholders to be drawn and accurately documented. Highly Recommend.

Richard Elmes Source: LinkedIn

Yossi has been an instrumental part of the success of the Macquarie Edge platform. Yossi has been able to fill the gap between marketing and IT to ensure business requirements are captured and adapted into a technical spec that can be implemented.

Yossi's product, marketing and IT knowledge has been invaluable. I thoroughly recommend Yossi.

Kristi Barrow Source: LinkedIn

Yossi is an innovative thinker with a passion for online. His skills span online development, online marketing, prospect conversion, SEO and online forms. Yossi is always across leading industry trends in Australia and overseas and he challenges the businesses he works with to compete with global leaders. Yossi also has a strong project management skill set and collaborates well with diverse stakeholders.

Darren Moglia Source: LinkedIn

Yossi is great at getting things done. He is flexible in his approach, takes feedback onboard and focuses on what’s achievable in the time available.

Helen Raadts Source: LinkedIn

Yossi was the project manager/ scrum master for BTOnline refresh project. He is very professional and has got good expertise in Agile projects, He is good at planning, has got great problem solving capacity, easily builds good rapport with his team members, flexible and very helpful. His role in setting up the Refresh team from scratch and delivering the project successfully was very much appreciated. Yossi will be the best candidate for any projects which requires strategic thinking and realistic approach.

Ramya Varadarajan Source: LinkedIn

Member since December 2012