The world’s first citizen science campaign to sequence the human microbiome has raised almost $200,000 from 1500 people in over 30 countries in less than three months on Indiegogo – the largest successful citizen science project in history. How did we do it? By Jessica Richman (Co-Founder, uBiome) The microbiome are the bacteria that live [...]
Posts Tagged "Product Design"
3 Lessons On Crowdfunding From uBiome, A Citizen Science Startup That Raised $200,000 In Less Than 3 Months
January 29, 2013 – 7:00 am
Designing For Passion
September 12, 2012 – 6:00 am
Some have argued that successful apps cater to at least one of the seven deadly sins By Lauren Bacon (Author, The Boss of You) In recent years, I’ve been asking the people and organizations I work with a critical question: What are people going to love about your product1? I chose the word “love” carefully. [...]
Don’t Miss Google I/O Session “Sexy Isn’t Always Pink” Featuring Women 2.0 On Friday, June 29 @ 9AM (PST)
June 28, 2012 – 3:24 pm
On Friday, June 29 at 9AM (PST), don’t miss the panel on designing for inclusion at Google I/O. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Aside from the unveiling of Google’s new 7-inch Asus-made Nexus tablet and Project Glass‘s skydiving demo at Google I/O yesterday – don’t miss Women 2.0′s own Director of All [...]
Partner Event: Innovators Of The Web Conference (July 21 In SF)
June 24, 2012 – 9:00 am
CASCADE SF is hosting Innovators of the Web Conference on July 21 in San Francisco. The lineup is stellar with speakers including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Developer Estelle Weyl of Standardista speaking on “Select this” and mobile-focused front-end developer Tomomi Imura speaking on “Creating Mobile Apps with HTML5″. Top talent in the industry will cover [...]
Take A Digital Health Deep Dive With Rock Health Summer School
June 13, 2012 – 8:00 am
Learn about the healthcare landscape, and how to launch and manage a startup in the field. By Amy Puliafito (Research & Marketing Manager, Rock Health) Looking for a way to spend those chilly San Francisco summer evenings? We’ve partnered with Skillshare to produce a weekly summer workshop series, Rock Health Summer School, beginning June 20. [...]
Are You A/B Testing Your Designs? Quantifying Design Success
December 21, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Laura Klein (Principal, Users Know) The other day, I posted something I strongly believe on Twitter. A few people disagreed. I’d like to address the arguments, and I’d love to hear feedback and counter-arguments in the comments where you have more than 140 characters to tell me I’m wrong. My original tweet was, “I [...]
Developing Consumer Products Using Design-Centric Approaches
July 30, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Karen Zeller (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) As a female entrepreneur who has successfully sold her second boutique consumer goods company, Dante Pauwels is always on the move for solving design related challenges. She has recently sold her share of her second company, originally “Dante Beatrix” now Beatrix NY, a New York based children’s accessories [...]
