Poornima Vijayashanker

Unconference

How to Ship Your Ideas Workshop

This workshop is an extension of the How to Ship Your Ideas Talk. It is recommended that participants attend that talk before attending this workshop.

In this workshop, Poornima will walk participants through a series of exercises, to help them:

• Hone their pitch to potential customers, teammates, and investors
• Design a landing page that conveys their idea to attract potential customers
• Identify their ideal early adopters
• Create a launch plan

Talk

How to Ship Your Ideas

Are you busting at the seams with ideas for that next great software product, but feel overwhelmed trying to figure out how to bring those ideas to life? Perhaps you're feeling stuck and bombarded by the questions in your head asking things like, "Is this idea really any good?" or "Will it attract paying customers?", or "How in the world do I go about recruiting the right talent who can successfully help me ship a product?".

Entrepreneur, engineer, author, and speaker, Poornima Vijayashanker, will teach you how to tackle these questions and beyond. Channeling her experience as the founding engineer of mint.com, and launching BizeeBee and Femgineer, Poornima has developed a proven step-by-step process for successfully shipping the idea or ideas you’ve been dreaming about. She has shared her expertise and insights with entrepreneurs of various backgrounds around the world, lectured at her Alma Mater, Duke University, and served as the Engineer-in Residence for 500 Startups, a top accelerator in Silicon Valley.

From her book, How to Transform Your Ideas into Software Products, Poornima will teach you how to:

• Validate your idea before you spend time and money on it.
• Talk to prospective customers without feeling awkward or pushy.
• Hire talented people to build your product for you .

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