Women Who Startup #BasecampPHX - bites App for Foodies, Local Chefs and Farms

Welcome to our Women Who Startup Basecamp Phoenix!

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Interview Featuring Foodie Founders - Roza Ferdowsmaken and Chef Krystal Harris

Bites.mobi (http://bites.mobi/) - a marketplace for foodies, local chefs, and farms to come together…a trifecta of wins!

ChefKrystal.com (https://www.chefkrystal.com/)- Featured Chef on the Bites App who provides catering and meal planning services......

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Roza Ferdowsmaken is a technology & business attorney who works exclusively with technology founders, startups, and small to mid-sized tech companies. She doesn't care for how the legal profession is practiced by and large and has broken the mold with her uniquely collaborative, team-oriented approach to providing legal strategy and advisory services in a midtown Phoenix warehouse called Softwarehouse.

Roza is also an immigrant and single mom of a 7-year-old. It's her passion for creativity and the parallels she's uncovered between the world of technology and art that has led her to become the founder of not only Softwarehouse, her workspace where she engages with tech founders on legal and business matters, but also to become the founder of warehouse apps, the company she set up to create apps that impact the people and planet in beneficial ways. Her first such app is a community-based marketplace mobile app (called bites.) set to release in beta form to the metro Phoenix community on July 1st.

Chef Krystal’s journey with food several years ago, she found herself leaning towards a vegetarian diet and lifestyle that came relatively easy, and she enjoyed eating that way for a couple of years. Later she reintroduced meat back into her diet. Then she was introduced into a new style of cooking that contained a small amount of animal products if any at all. Finally, she made the leap to a total plant-based diet and has never felt better in her life. Now she feels called to educate others on how to obtain the same energy, and vitality, she has discovered through a plant-based lifestyle.

More recently, Chef Krystal has been working privately with local celebrities and pro athletes in their homes as a personal chef. She has traveled the country and had been given a divine appointed opportunity to work with, and be mentored by, a top macrobiotic and vegan cuisine chef for several weeks over the course of a year. Working in these up-close and personal environments has given her the ability to tailor food needs to each family she has cooked for based on their dietary needs and restrictions. Chef Krystal has learned a vast number of techniques, but more importantly, she has sprouted a passion to encourage and educate people to get the knowledge of what it means to eat well, and BE well, inside and out! She recently felt called to leave her post as an exclusive personal chef to start the venture and turn her company into an all plant-based baking company and now is a fully functioning catering company that has a healthful twist! She recently won two awards from ASU's E+I Department through a program called PREPPED! She is excited to share her love for life through food and help the communities who are starving for nutrient dense food!

ChefKrystal is also our food and beverage sponsor for this event. So you will get a true taste of her healthful bites!

Event Agenda

5:30 - 6pm Drinks, Snacks and Connecting

6pm Welcome message from Kristina

6:15pm - 7pm featured women entrepreneur's interview - Roza and Krystal

7pm - 7:30pm Open Q&A

Hosted by Kristina Hallberg RDN, Co-Organizer, WWS Basecamp Phoenix.

Kristina Hallberg is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and founder of KristinaHallbergRDN.com (http://kristinahallbergrdn.com/), helping founders, techpreneurs, professionals and sports professionals live life deliciously healthy and happy by providing personalized nutrition coaching. She delivers meal plans and motivation through The Delish Menu Concierge. Her signature workshop is the AmIHungry?™ mindful eating program which teaches people to drop the diet and feel awesome.

Presented at Galvanize in Phoenix
Galvanize is the front door to the tech community and provides workspace, education and events for the tech community and women startup professionals. Ask to schedule a tour (http://www.galvanize.com/campuses/phoenix-warehouse-district/) before the meetup.

What is Women Who Startup?
Women Who Startup is a community driven platform to celebrate, connect and empower female entrepreneurs in Colorado and beyond. Follow us @WomenWhoStartup (https://twitter.com/womenwhostartup) Learn more about us: womenwhostartup.co (http://womenwhostartup.co/) -- Join the global innovator and learning network here: app.womenwhostartup.com

Who Founded Women Who Startup?

Lizelle van Vuuren is a serial entrepreneur, innovator, and marketer who loves to turn ideas into amazing human experiences. She believes that entrepreneurship is the key to solving the World's biggest problems. She's the Founder and CEO of Effectively Labs and Women Who Startup. Reach Lizelle on Twitter (https://twitter.com/lizellevv).

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Basecamp Phoenix Annual Sponsor

Big Thanks to our 2017 - 2018 Annual Basecamp Phoenix Sponsor RareLabs.io (http://www.rarelabs.io/) for bringing WWS Basecamp events to Arizona! Empowering women in tech and startups!

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And another Big Thanks to the WWS-Premier Annual Sponsors (http://www.womenwhostartup.com/sponsors/)

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CHANGING THE FACE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, TOGETHER.

From Colorado and beyond, where the entrepreneurial scene is almost as varied and spectacular as our landscapes. With businesses of all sizes and all kinds launching almost daily, the opportunities for women with an enterprising spirit are endless.
Women Who Startup is dedicated to building a platform for women who are innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs, developers, educators, community members and more, with community, a powerful network and resources to fuel your current or next innovation or entrepreneurial endeavor.