I didn’t let my peers who were smarter, more experienced, and didn’t have to worry about money bother me. I just put my blinders on and plugged away. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder, Femgineer) I am really bad at quitting. Failing miserably isn’t enough to get me to quit either. For example, when I was a [...]
Posts Tagged "Poornima Vijayashanker"
The Lean Startup: But Lean Doesn’t Mean Lazy
March 26, 2013 – 12:49 pm
Lean methodologies offers a structure where you can perform a series of tests, measure the results, review what contributed to success or failures before moving on… By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder, Femgineer) Seems like everyone has heard the buzz about the Lean Startup movement, which was started over three years ago by Eric Ries. Yet I’m [...]
Conversations Potential Co-Founders Should Have
December 19, 2012 – 7:00 am
Before you get into a partnership, have a conversation first. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) I recently met up with a friend that I haven’t seen since he had sold his last company a year ago. He was really eager to get to work on his next idea. As he was telling me [...]
Do The Hardest Thing
November 29, 2012 – 10:00 am
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, [...]
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 To Find Femgineers (Recruiting/Hiring Women Engineers)
November 1, 2012 – 9:00 am
Sponsor an event for women in tech like Founder Friday or Girl Geek Dinners. Femgineers eat too! By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) My boyfriend, who’s an engineer, and his CEO are part of a prominent Silicon Valley startup that are currently as they say “killing it!” They’ve managed to become pretty successful in [...]
The Number One Reason You Should Build A Product
October 25, 2012 – 11:46 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) I’m not sure they why [...]
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 [...]
