Hi, my name is Tony
I'm a digital nomad, believer in Blockchain industry, passionate about Brazilian culture.
I manage InsightWhale.com, a data-driven marketing firm and InsightCryp.to, a company helping blockchain ventures with goto-market strategy and fundraising.
My story
My story begins on 12 September, 2012, when I left office job in Moscow and completely changed my life. That was the time when I started to make my dreams come true.
No, I didn't become a monk, just fooling around
5 months in Goa, India, which was a good start to brace up after being stuck in the city doing the same thing, years after it stopped giving happiness. And the first dream of living in another country came true.
5 months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle right after India and my second dream came true. 12,000 kilometers of road meditation.
Somewhere on the road to Bolognia
Starting capoeira which alone makes many dreams come true.
Living a nomad life. Searching for and finding people who inspire me, hunting for amazing stories of lives. Admiring the wonders life has in store for you and the fact how easy to get them.
Working and getting back the happiness work should give. The same happiness I felt when I was starting my first business 10 years back.
In the end of 2015 I went to Brazil to practice capoeira for 3 months... and stayed there for 1.5 years, learning dance called forro.
During those 1.5 years I also learned Portuguese language on a good conversational level.
In 2017, having spent 2 months in Russia after the trip in Brazil, I went to US for the first time. I planned to scale my InsightWhale business there, but I couldn't even imagine how deep will I dive into work. During these 5 months I got deeply involved in Blockchain industry. That led to a new business, which I called InsightCryp.to (helping blockchain companies succeed).
I love discovering anything new. People, emotions, ideas, capabilities of body and mind. New thrills me. When I'm astonished, I feel I'm alive.
About my blog on Steemit
In this blog I will be writing about my view on the Blockchain industry, remote work, nomad life and some bits of my philosophy.
I don't have any sacred knowledge, but I can definitely share what I am learning, once I changed my life to the way I want it to be.
Please share any of your thoughts and ideas when reading reading my blog.
Also you can read/listen to some more details of my nomadic lifestyle and remote team management here:
- ReStation podcast "Winning your first remote clients with Tony Simonovsky"
- domain.me blogpost "Meet Tony Simonovsky: Digital Nomad Working As a Web-analyst"
- CryptoCoinNews article "My Top Lessons About Marketing In The Highly Volatile ICO Market By Tony Simonovsky"
- Dynamic Yield article "Why Most Businesses Aren’t Happy With Their CRO Results"
- CrazyEgg blog: "Using Heuristics to Increase Your Ecommerce Conversion Rate"