Amanda Spann is a highly accomplished marketer and app entrepreneur who is committed to helping emerging founders build and accelerate their brands. She is one of the co-founders of Tiphub, an innovation community that provides support to entrepreneurs in Africa and the African Diaspora. In addition, she has served as the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Blerdology, a tech social enterprise that offers assistance to the black tech community. Amanda's expertise has been recognized and featured in various publications, and she has received prestigious honors such as being named one of Business Insider's 30 Most Important Women in Tech Under 30 and one of BET's Blacks on the Brink of Greatness.
Amanda is available as a speaker and offers a diverse range of topics, including bootstrapping, starting up while still employed, building tech products as a non-technical founder, and more. She also conducts workshops on brand building and app development.
When it comes to building tech-enabled solutions, it takes both programming and non-technological skills to produce a comprehensive, cohesive product. Yet communicating with your opposite-brained colleagues can often feel like a hurdle to project success. In this talk, Amanda leverages her experience in corporate communication and instructional design to provide success strategies for speaking, collaborating and connecting in terms your teammates can understand.
Your ideas have value, even if you don’t believe you have the expertise to execute them yourself. As a tech founder who’s built a portfolio of app without ever writing a line of code Amanda knows a thing or two about overcoming technical limitations to achieve success. In this talk Amanda will outline the tools, resources and know-how you’ll need to acquire when starting up as a non-technical founder and provide you with insights on how best compliment the skills and expertise of your technical partners.
Whether you’re hoping to cut through the clutter of a journalist’s inbox or garner the attention of an investor, this in person or virtual workshop guide participants through the process of formulating a business pitch that clearly articulates their vision and provides them with applicable strategies, tips and tactics to help them resonate with their intended audience.
