2. About Me
- My name is Dorai
- Technology entrepreneur (since 1980)
- Built 30 products over 30 years
- Part of the founding team of 4 companies - 2 in India and 2 in the USA
- Love technology and track emerging trends
- Help students and startups
- I believe small is beautiful
5. Application Skills
In addition to Software Skills, you need to:
1. Understand requirements
2. Create software design
3. Implement the design
6. Product Skills
In addition to having Application Skills, you need to be able to:
1. Come up with ideas
2. Research Ideas and select a few
3. Prototype ideas
4. Validate prototypes
5. Constantly improve and Iterate
7. Product Skills - Why?
1. Refines you in multiple dimensions
2. Helps you understand the bigger picture
3. Makes you a Creator/Builder - Seeing your ideas come to life is cool
4. Gives you a path to better career
5. Paves your path to entrepreneurship
8. Product Skills - How?
1. Get good at developing your software skills
2. Solve many identified problems to develop your application skills
3. Start small - come up with simple ideas and build micro-products
9. How Do You Get Started?
1. Attend as many hackathons and code competitions as you can
2. Take part in online competitions - Kaggle, TopTal and other similar ones
3. Join our Build2Learn Community
4. Learn - Build - Iterate
5. Keep a Learn Log (your internal use)
6. Blog - Share your learning with others
7. Build your brand
10. Resources
Start/Participate in Discussions - http://www.askdorai.com/discussion/
Join http://www.build2learn.in/
Check out https://www.facebook.com/groups/chennaigeeks/
Connect with me on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/doraithodla/