VINE welcomes Luke Rabin of BLDR

As cofounder and product lead of BLDR, Luke Rabin has had the rare privilege of getting to spend his career in the very earliest stages of tech startups. With a background in economics and music, he has a unique perspective on how to craft new products and companies that both the market and real people value. Though he's learned most of his lessons as a product manager and architect the hard way inside some of Richmond's most heavily funded ventures, Luke gets to share the new techniques that BLDR created from those experiences with their portfolio of cofounded companies as well as through their blog and podcast.

Luke will give an overview of BLDR as well as discuss The Serial Method (their way of validating a product/service through the lens of economics)

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Virginia Innovators Network is a not for profit, educational organization. We exist to support innovative Virginians who are pursuing bringing their unique products and services to market. There is NO CHARGE to attend VINE monthly meetings -- Thank you to our generous sponsors who make the pizza, water, & beer possible. Our sponsors are Spark Product Development (https://sparkproductdevelopment.com/) and Patent Law of Virginia, PLLC (http://patentlawva.com/).

Our primary approach to providing this support is through membership meetings. These meetings serve two purposes: networking and education. Aspiring entrepreneurs have the ability to meet inventors and entrepreneurs who have successfully launched unique goods and services or professionals with subject matter expertise that is pertinent to launching of these products and services. The speakers at the meetings have direct expertise in one or more of the areas related to bringing ideas to market.

In addition to the meetings, our website contains references and information to help the innovator research and make appropriate contacts with subject matter experts.

VINE generally meets on the 2nd Monday of every month. Our meetings start with general networking and free pizza at 5:30, followed by a brief VINE business meeting from 6:00 to 6:15. Typically, our speakers will present from 6:15 to 7:30. Following the presentation, there is time allowed for individual questions and/or additional networking.

VINE attracts top regional and national speakers who provide meaningful content to our meeting attendees.

VINE Members will have the opportunity at each meeting to share news about their invention/product if desired and if appropriate. Members will also have the opportunity at each meeting to give a 45 second (MAX) “elevator speech” to get feedback (feedback to be given after speaker).