How to turn ideas into products- lesson from Apple, Amazon, Mint, Airbnb, Zappos
Join us for our Speaker Series & Networking Event with Andrew Romans, VC at Rubicon Venture Capital and author of two best selling books on venture capital:
Our panel will share lessons and tips from working for and doing case studies on some of the biggest companies and startups in the world – Apple, Amazon, Mint, Airbnb, Zappos, HP, Nokia, Intuit, Yahoo, 500 Startups, etc.
Some of the questions the panel will answer revolve around the following topics:
If you are a startup or entrepreneur, this is a talk you do not want to miss!
Agenda
6:00pm – 6:45pm – Dinner and networking, demo/sponsor tables
6:45pm – 7:00pm – Intros, demo/sponsor tables mentions
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Speakers program and Q&A
8:30pm – 9:00pm – Meet the speaker, networking
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Date:
Tuesday, 01/19/2016
Time:
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location:
Founders Floor
2 North 1st St., 5th Floor
San Jose, CA 95113
COWORKING ACCELERATOR
Interested in taking your startup to the next level?
Discussion Topics
How to validate your idea before you start spending time and money?
How to involve users in developing your products?
What tools are most useful when designing and developing a product?
How to define what goes into MVP?
How to get a prototype quickly and inexpensively?
How to decide what features to build and how to prioritize limited resources?
When does a startup need a product manager and what skills they should have?
How to speak with the development team when you don’t have a technical background?
How to build, test, iterate fast? (lean startup tips)
How to monetize various features of your product?
And much more…
Other topics included:
– How to raise funding from corporate VCs
– How to partner with corporate VCs and big companies
– Landmines to avoid that can be disastrous for startups and other VCs involved
– How to position your startup to be acquired by a large corporation
– How corporations can use venture capital to access startup innovation, a steady pipeline of partnerships, investments and ultimately M&A opportunities
– And much more…
Speakers
POORNIMA VIJAYASHANKER
founding engineer
Mint
Poornima was the founding engineer at Mint where she helped build and launch Mint, scale it to 1.5 Million users and sell it to Intuit for $170 Million in just 2 years.
She is a frequent guest speaker at many events organized and hosted byTechCrunch, TedX, Andreessen Horrowitz, SXSW, University of Michigan, Wharton School, Lean Startup Conference, Startup Grind, Stanford Public Radio, etc.
Poornima runs corporate workshops at Fortune 500 companies, is a frequent contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine and has authored two books – How to Transform Your Ideas into Software Products, and Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public Speaking with Karen Catlin.
Poornima was EIR at 500Startups and has also lectured at Duke University. Poornima is also the founder of BizeeBee, a CRM solution for the fitness industry, and Femgineer, an education platform for tech professionals and entrepreneurs.
She is a graduate of Duke University with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIKE FREIER
Founder
Product Management Consulting Group.
Mike has over 15+ years of product management/marketing/product development experience and is the founder of Product Management Consulting Group.
He is Advisor and past President of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association and speaker at many product management events including Product Camp Silicon Valley.
He is an Executive Committee Member at MIT/Stanford Venture Lab andMentor at Clean Tech Open.
He has an engineering degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Ray
CEO
Sprimo
Ray is currently the CEO of Sprimo, a “Nest for air purifiers” that partners with Plug and Play IoT.
Previously he was VP of Products at HandScape which was funded 305% on Kickstarter.
He was also Director Product Management at Livescribe, the digital pen company recently sold to Anoto and Director of Products at Lytro camera (which raised $140 Millionto date).
Throughout his career he held various product management positions includingDirector of Products at Memeo, which sold 70 million software licenses worldwide and was recently acquired, Sr. Product Manager at Amazon Labs, Product Manager atPalmSource, Palm and Tapwave.
He is Principal Consultantat RC Consulting Groupand part of theBoard of Advisors at The Harold Frank Entrepreneurship Institute at Washington State University.
Matt
Founder and Managing Director
Founders Floor
Matt is Founder and Managing Director of Founders Floor, a co-working accelerator for startups and entrepreneurs located in downtown San Jose.
Previously Matt was CEO and Founder of InStore Logic, a video analytics software company and SocksSelect, an e-commerce company.
He was also Founder and CEO of Consumer Tech Media, a leading digital media advertising agency with clients such as SanDisk, Kingston, Jabra, Philips, Casio and Bonzi.
He also served as VP of Sales and Marketing at BCSI, a video surveillance software company and has held various management and business development positions at 24/7 Real Media, PhotoPoint and Cybereps.
A graduate from the University of Northern Iowa, Matt holds a B.A. degree in Marketing with an emphasis in Marketing Research.
DEA WILSON
Founder
Lifograph
Dea is the founder of Lifograph, the crowdsourced encyclopedia of people and companies in Silicon Valley and beyond.
She is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Silicon Valley Incubator. She is also Venture Partner at Founders Floor Accelerator.
As an Executive Director at The VC Network and LifographTV, Dea interviews many prominent VCs, angels, executives and founders in Silicon Valley and tech.
She has a Master Degree from University of Washington and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania).
Free street parking
Abundant street parking is available for free after 6:00 p.m. in downtown San Jose. Streets closest to Founders Floor with free street parking are Santa Clara St., North Market St. and St. John St.
Free parking garage
Founders Floor will provide a 2 hour free parking voucher to the Market & San Pedro Square Parking Garage. This garage is only one block away from Founders Floor. It’s located at 45 N. Market St., between W. Santa Clara St. and W. St. John St. Upon check-in at the Founders Floor event, make sure you ask for the 2 hour free parking voucher.
Public transportation
VTA Light Rail is right outside our building, and runs every 20 minutes making public transportation fast and easy. Both the Mountain View-Winchester and the Alum Rock-Santa Teresa VTA light rail stop at the Santa Clara Station(s) which is located just a block away.
Refund Policy
You may request a refund up to 48 hours before the event. Unfortunately, any refunds requested less than 48 hours before the event cannot be honored. Thank you for your understanding.
Disclaimer
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