ACM-S organised their second Webinar ACM-S 1.0 facilitated by the Co-Founder of UniCourt
22-Jun-2020
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) at Sahyadri organised their second Webinar ACM-S 1.0 on “Ideation & Prototyping”, on 21st June’2020. Mr. Prashanth Shenoy Katpady, Co-Founder & CTO, UniCourt, was the Guest Speaker.
Holder of Masters’ Degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Mr. Prashanth Shenoy Katpady co-founded UniCourt to transform an idea from its inception to a SaaS Solution. He also started Hackerspace Mangaluru, a community which holds workshops and talks on technology.
Mr. Prashanth related his journey towards Entrepreneurship and spoke on how to come up with an idea for a start-up. While speaking on the importance of prototyping, he said that it allows having multiple discussions before getting into final development. He also explained how prototyping can be done by defining your main goal of the project.
Key takeaways of the webinar:
• Importance of messaging in Marketing;
• Experience from First Sale;
• Failures are important - Be nimble & learn to pivot;
• Encouragement is really important;
• The prototype is not just the product but the idea (Business).
The webinar was highly interactive and all the questions were clarified.
