If glamour is defined as working on something you are passionate about, looking forward to Mondays, and truly enjoying your job, then yes, Silicon Valley is glamorous. By Samihah Azim (Lead Product Manager & Designer, BizeeBee) I’m often pinged by people outside of technology that are looking to transition into working in the tech field [...]
Posts Tagged "BizeeBee"
Why I Picked Astia In The Jungle Of Startup Accelerators, Incubators
June 12, 2012 – 6:00 am
“I made new friendships with CEOs from around the world building products solving a variety of problems.” By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) When I left Mint.com to start BizeeBee, a number of startup incubators approached me about joining. While I liked the concept of having focused time to think, learn, and mentors who [...]
To Really See Your Startup Vision, Leave The Building.
June 9, 2012 – 11:00 am
“I told her who I was and she announced to the group, ‘This is the woman who came up with BizeeBee, it runs my business!” By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) One day ago I was supposed to get on a plane to Paris for a 3 week vacation in the South of France, [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Helping Small Business Owners
June 8, 2012 – 12:31 pm
Here are useful tools for small business owners built by women entrepreneurs. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Starting your own business comes with a unique set of challenges. Early-stage startup entrepreneurs are no stranger to these challenges. These notable women entrepreneurs, each equipped with a background in computer science and penchant for [...]
Book Review For “Secrets Of The Rockstar Programmers”
May 30, 2012 – 7:00 am
“…There were no female programmers interviewed!” By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) For my summer software reading I choose Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers by Ed Burns (yes I know the title is a bit cheesy…). The book contains interviews with several male programmers, who have been in industry for at least 10 years, [...]
How Poornima Vijayashanker Fell In Love with Building Software
May 25, 2012 – 8:00 am
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Semil Shah (Operations, Votizen) “In the Studio” continues this week with an engineer who began programming at the end high school, double-majored in CS/EE in college, dropped out of Stanford’s graduate CS program to become the second employee at Mint.com, and after spending some time at Intuit [...]
Why Aren’t There More Tech Women?
April 30, 2012 – 10:30 am
Join Poornima Vijayashanker of BizeeBee and Alexa Andrzejewski of Foodspotting on Thursday, May 10 for a Startup Triad event on “Fearless Female Founders” at AirBnB in San Francisco! By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) I usually don’t like to debate issues of gender or race, but the with the tech community buzzing about the [...]
A Steady Approach To Building A Tech Startup In Silicon Valley
February 6, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) A slow and steady approach to startup building… in Silicon Valley? Bah hum bug! We have to go fast! We need to raise capital, build product, acquire thousands of users daily, analyze metrics, recruit… go go go! What if we paused, just for a second, to take a [...]
On A Culture Of Constraints In Product Development
December 5, 2011 – 5:15 am
By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) In 4 days, it will be the 1 year anniversary of launching BizeeBee my second startup. When I started BizeeBee, I was determined to put in place engineering principles that I hadn’t been able to at previous companies. I also wanted to avoid a lot of bad practices [...]
Want More Female Engineers? How Do You Retain Engineers?
September 23, 2011 – 1:37 pm
By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) Looking back 21 years ago I never would have fathomed I would have become a femgineer. At the age of eight, I had decided I was going to be a lawyer, writer, and professor, because I loved to read, write, and speak. I spent the next 10 years [...]
