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Media
Press
- Rebelle Society Women Who Rule The Web: La Femgineer November 2, 2012
- BizeeBee Startup of the Week American Express Open July 30, 2012
- CNN Money For entrepreneurs, are incubators worth the trouble? April 20, 2012
- SV411 Q&A Poornima Vijayashanker, CEO of BizeeBee April 16, 2012
- Daily Beast 13 Women Who Rule the Internet
- New York Times Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley April 17 2010
- Mint Team Spotlight Poornima Vijayashanker June 28. 2007
Videos
- Girl Geek Dinner @ Atlassian
- In the Studio: How BizeeBee’s Poornima Vijayashanker Fell In Love with Building Software Interview with TechCrunch
- Learnings on Running a Startup Interview with Rah
- BizeeBee and Founder Brought to you by Brian Castellani
- Duke Angel Pitch Event (April 2010)
- What is BizeeBee? Brought to you by UC Berkeley Startup Fair (2010)
- Will it Launch? Part 1 & Part 2 Brought to you by Women 2.0 (February 2010)
- Femgineer on her second startup Brought to you by Women 2.0 (February 2010)
Yoga
- Its All About the Yoga Demonstrating Bikram Yoga Competition Poses (March 2011)
- Northern California Bikram Yoga Competition (January 2011)
Stop the Protectionist States of America
Dear Femgineer Readers,
For those of you who want to learn more about what Protect IP and SOPA are, here is a video on the topic:
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
If you are interested in stopping the the government from continuing to take away more and more of our liberties you can also sign the petition at the end of the video.
Sincerely,
Poornima Vijayashanker
Coder with Conviction
Chocolate World Tour: Fran’s Seattle, WA
Aside from coding, yoga, and travel, I’m a HUGE chocoholic. I prefer daily intakes of dark chocolate in bar form, nothing less than 70% will do, but I also make truffles, and occasionally indulge in making dark chocolate crème brûlée.
You can find me on Saturdays at the Chocolate Garage in downtown Palo Alto, sampling bars of dark chocolate from around the world.
I’m starting a new series of visiting chocolate shops across the world and posting video tours of my visits for others to enjoy.
Today I visited Fran’s in downtown Seattle, WA near Pike’s Place. Fran’s has been open since 1982 (coincidentally the year I was born). Originally Fran was into making confections, and would hand out truffles to people who were standing in line waiting to buy her confections. But then people started mainly coming for the truffles so her business shifted from confections to making mostly truffles. My favorite is the Single Malt Whiskey Truffle. If you’re not fortunate enough to live near Seattle you can order some of her amazing truffles online.
Enjoy! 
P.S. Thanks to Lyndi Thompson for introducing me to Fran’s!
Reading List
The femgineers are avid readers with eclectic tastes who enjoy fiction while vacationing and traveling, non-fiction while eating a meal, and technical books in the evenings and on quiet weekends.
Here are some of their recommended reads:
Current Reading List
Queued Up
Fun
Business/Entrepreneurship/Career
- The Mesh – Lisa Gansky
- Good Boss, Bad Boss – Robert I. Sutton
- Street Smarts – Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham
- Word of Mouth Marketing – Andy Sernovitz
- Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
- Making Ideas Happen – Scott Belsky
- Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh
- Mastering the VC Game – Jeffrey Bussgang
- The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company – Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel
- Great Demo! – Peter E. Cohen
- Brand Sense – Martin Lindstrom
- The Secret – Ken Blanchard & Mike Miller
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
- The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton M. Christensen
- Made to Stick – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
- Never Eat Alone – Keith Ferrazzi
- Positioning – Al Ries & Jack Trout
- Basic Black – Cathie Black
- Secrets of Six Figure Women – Barbara Stanny
- Getting to Yes – Roger Fisher & William Ury
- Getting Things Done – David Allen
Programming/Design:
- Design for Hackers – David Kadavy
- Smart & Gets Things Done – Joel Spolsky
- Agile Development with Rails – Samy Ruby & Dave Thomas
- Mental Models – Indi Young
- Building Social Web Applications
- Clean Code – Robert C. Martin
- Rockstar Programmers – Ed Burns
- Test Driven Development – Thomas Hammell & Tom Snyder
- The Laws of Simplicity – John Maeda
- Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman