Sponsored by: Procopio & SV Forum Present: Building & Scaling the Minimum Viable Startup in Palo Alto and San Francisco. By Roger Rappoport (Partner, Procopio) The startup world has developed a vernacular of its own, which for those of us whose daily lives are spent immersed in startups, seems like a first rather than second [...]
Posts Tagged "MVP"
How to Start a Business: Rinse and Repeat
March 12, 2013 – 10:00 am
Anyone, no matter how young or old, can be an entrepreneur. You just need to have ideas, perseverance, and an iterative framework to test your ideas until you find one that makes money (ie. creates revenue). By Jennifer Arguello (Co-Founder, Latino Startup Alliance) Think about an app or gadget you love to use. Is it [...]
3 Startup Lessons Learned From Hukkster’s Founders
December 27, 2012 – 6:00 am
You know the best way to dive into something? You dive all in. By Erica Bell & Katie Finnegan (Co-Founders, Hukkster) One year ago today, with the holiday shopping season upon us, we were frustrated. We had insanely busy jobs. (But who doesn’t?) We had recently both left our positions at one of the world’s [...]
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 [...]
How To Win A Hackathon (iOSDevCamp 2012)
July 31, 2012 – 8:00 am
Foodspotting, the leading app for rating dishes at restaurants, made its first public debut at iPhoneDevCamp 2009 when Alexa Andrzejewski pitched the idea in search of co-founders and won Best Social App. This year, Alexa returned and led her team, including Foodspotting’s own IOS developers, to win “Best Open Source,” a top honor at iOSDevCamp [...]
PITCH 2012 Conference: Women Talk About Shipping Products, Not Shopping For Products
February 16, 2012 – 12:33 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) On February 14, Caterina Fake delivered the opening keynote at Women 2.0′s PITCH Conference stating the need and opportunity to “humanize technology before it dehumanizes us.” She underlined that “the Internet is built on a culture of generosity” and fear of missing out, urging the audience to [...]
The Zynga Method Of Market Testing (“Ghetto Testing”)
December 28, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Ramit Sethi (Author, I Will Teach You To Be Rich) One of the things you learn in my course on the best ways to make money on the side is how to fail fast and test things rapidly. Compare this to people who say things like, “Yeah… I need to get my website up… [...]
11 Lessons Learned From Women 2.0 Startup Weekend
November 27, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Audrey Fischer (Participant, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011) Editor’s note: These are 11 tips & tricks direct from a Startup Weekend attendee. As always, the freshest startup advice is picked daily here at Women 2.0. Brainstorm before before you arrive. Think about how you can contribute. I initially thought Startup Weekend was all about [...]
When An Idea Has Legs: appSmitten Off to a Running Start!
October 31, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Ellen Pack (Co-Founder, AppSmitten) The three of us sat around the table. We were pretty excited, but would we still love our latest startup idea in the morning? Well it turns out we did, this one had legs. The idea had come to us naturally. We were hanging out with our smartphones, excitedly sharing [...]
How To Get Tweeted By Dave McClure
September 27, 2011 – 5:30 am
By Alicia Liu (Participant, Founder Labs) It all went down exactly a week before demo day. 4:00pm: our team was getting ready to present our progress taking part in Founder Labs to Dave McClure, of 500 Startups, and John Malloy, of Blue Run Ventures. We were 4 weeks in, with only 1 more week to [...]
