I’ve programmed myself to do the hardest things in life, but they’ve also brought me the greatest joy! By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) Instead of doing what’s easiest, I always chose to pursue the hard path. Even after dropping out of my first computer science class, I forced myself to take summer school, [...]
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Key Takeaways From The Atlassian Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner
November 19, 2012 – 4:57 pm
BizeeBee’s Poornima Vijayashanker suggested that “women need to get more comfortable with making the ask.” By Emily Gonzales (CTO, Bookigee) The panel at the 29th Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner hosted by Atlassian was an impressive mix of admirable women drawn from the online media, venture capital and SaaS sectors of technology. Rather than focus [...]
Where UX Meets Code: Get Started On Web & Mobile Development
October 26, 2012 – 2:48 pm
The front-end web and mobile development is where UX meets code. By Frances Advincula (Software Engineer, Accenture) When I was young, I wanted to be a fashion designer. But then I grew up and realized I actually have to be able to eat food and pay rent, so I became a software engineer instead. Fast [...]
Here Are Two Reasons Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) Fail
October 19, 2012 – 10:00 am
Come to Poornima’s workshop at General Assembly in San Francisco on October 27 for an Introduction to Product Development class to learn the process for picking features to create a viable MVP – register here to save 15% as a Women 2.0 member. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) Everyone wants to start validating [...]
3 Reasons You Need A Product Roadmap
October 11, 2012 – 9:00 am
Create a product roadmap for so each feature launched accomplishes one of three major business goals: customer acquisition, engagement, monetization. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) The lean startup movement has been great about touting how you should “fail often” and “fail fast”, do market research with landing pages and by buying AdWords to [...]
How To Build A Self-Sufficient Team
September 18, 2012 – 7:00 am
I’ve been running a little experiment with my team at BizeeBee, which I’ve code named Poornima’s Paris Plan, or “PPP”. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) It’s easy as a founder to just do everything, especially if you’re technical. But just because you can do everything doesn’t mean you should. Doing everything not only [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Women Entrepreneurs From Astia
September 14, 2012 – 6:00 am
Deadline to apply to join Astia’s fall global entrepreneur program is Monday, September 17, 2012. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Wikipedia says “Astia is a genus of jumping spiders” but here in the tech world, we are familiar with Astia as the non-profit that accelerates women starting high-growth high-tech ventures, offering programs [...]
Managing Engineering: How To Keep Your Startup Engineer Sane
September 10, 2012 – 9:00 am
Solving technical issues with your engineer. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) You worked hard to attract that so-called rock star engineer, thinking that they would be the golden goose who could bring your vision to reality, but now things have gotten rocky. Iteration cycles are taking too long, buggy code is being shipped, [...]
What Is A Design Product Manager?
August 26, 2012 – 7:00 am
Design Product Managers sit at the intersection between technical and business (engineers and marketers). By Samihah Azim (Design Product Manager, BizeeBee) This is a question I’m often asked. Sometimes we’re labeled as Product Designers, other times it’s Product Managers, and even other times we’re Product Managers of User Experience. But labels are just that – [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Women With Solid Technical Chops – And Own It
August 10, 2012 – 8:48 am
For a thorough list of technical women founding companies (CTOs, CEOs, VPs of engineering and more), check out this list. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Of the five finalists for Entrepreneur Magazine’s ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR award, there is a female founder – Limor Fried. The MIT-educated electrical engineer (pictured) started electronics [...]
