Design Sprint : Web Products for Small Business

Food and drink will be provided

Learn about and design mind blowing web products with local business owners and web developers.

The design sprint will focus on quickly whiteboarding, wireframing and designing a “web app” built into a website.

We define a “web app” as any type of plug-in, extension or drag and drop utility; such as a contact form, blog or social media feed.

Purpose:

SMBs are generally product or service experts. Without having knowledge of their unique industries and markets, they would fail. While they are experts in their individual fields, they sometimes lack the technical expertise that can help bring their product or service to a larger online market

Developers are technical experts. If you provide a direction for there talents, they can basically build anything you want on the web. While Developers are technical wizards, they sometimes have difficulty with product management skills.

Goal:

In the time given, build out small teams of SMB’s and developers who quickly brainstorm new web applications that may not yet exist in any marketplace. In doing so, developers will learn about small business needs and SMBs will learn about what can and cannot be done in a virtual marketplace.

Guest Speaker / Judge:

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Ben Larson - Founders Institute (http://fi.co/)

Twitter: @blarsoninc

Ben is a San Francisco based entrepreneur with a diverse background in technology startups, service-based companies, and SMBs. He's currently a Director for the Silicon Valley Founder Institute, an early stage startup accelerator, and runs global operations for Founder Institute HQ. Prior to starting with FI, Ben co-founded two startups and has consulted with several others. He's also a designer, photographer, and Certified ScrumMaster that loves dogs, cars, burritos, and Sriracha.

About Wix:

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/c/2/4/600_422359492.jpeg Wix.com (http://WWW.WIX.COM) is a leading cloud-based web development platform with over 54 million registered users worldwide. Wix was founded on the belief that the Internet should be accessible to everyone to develop, create and contribute. Through free and premium subscriptions, Wix empowers millions of businesses, organizations, professionals and individuals to take their businesses, brands and workflow online. The Wix Editor and highly curated App Market enable users to build and manage a fully integrated and dynamic online presence. Wix's headquarters are in Tel Aviv with offices in San Francisco, New York, Vilnius and Dnepropetrovsk.

About Event Space:

“Wix.com gives developers the ability to reach an audience of 50 million users and begin monitizing there web apps from day one. Wix also provides a simple and easy-to-use JavaScript SDK to integrate your third-party App into the Wix platform. You can develop on the stack you prefer with any technology you like. Visit the Wix developers center (http://dev.wix.com) to learn more.”

“In San Francisco, Wix also offers the Wix Lounge, a free event and members-only co-working space for web developers. Through the Lounge, Wix helps app and technology creators better understand the needs of small businesses and gives small businesses the tools to make the most out of their web presence.”