Pimp my bike!

So its been a while since the last post and even though a lot of things have happened since then, probably the most interesting has to do with this last week being entrepreneurship week. It was only last friday when we thought about doing something - it wasnt until Sunday that we decided to go through - and not until Tuesday that we set up shop and started doing what we wanted to do - we wanted to paint bikes and attach rubberbands to them to increase the value of the rubber bands (that was the goal of the innovation challenge) - but it turned out painting bikes was wayy more successful than attaching rubberbands and so we stuck to painting bikes and came out with some pretty nice pictures that you can check out here - http://picasaweb.google.com/menon.harsh/PimpMyBike

We also had to make a video which you can see here - (kinda cheesy, but oh well) -




Even though we didn't win, it was a lot of work and a lot of fun - which makes it really hard in deciding if I want to do this again next year. Feel free to complement/criticize our work - any suggestions will be appreciated.

Girl Geek Dinner @ Google

So yesterday I went to Google HQ with a few friends (I'm not sure if they want to be named so I'll use initials - M, A and K) and it was interesting. This was part of the Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner series. The food was good, there was an open bar and there was good company...Essentially there were a panel of 4 women talking about their lives and their experiences as women entrepreneurs -
- Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google
- Rashmi Sinha, CEO, SlideShare
- Leah Culver, Lead Developer & Co-Founder, Pownce
- Sumaya Kazi, Entrepreneur & Social Media Manager, Sun Microsystems
- Katherine Barr (moderator), Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Katherine was asking the others questions while the audience watched. Each one of those women was unique in her own way- some were too young, some too arrogant, some very humble and family oriented and some just easy going and carefree. I went and talked to a few of them after the discussion was over but didn't really get too much out of it. Probably the highlight of the night was when Leah mentioned the computer science geek's pick up line - "Whats your language?" I have to try that sometime lol.

The time after the panel was spent trying to acquire as many google goodies as possible - the priority being a google umbrella since it was raining pretty hard last night. But despite our irrestible charms and dashing good looks, we couldn't get an umbrella. So much for that.