{"id":566,"date":"2015-02-26T01:59:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T01:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=566"},"modified":"2015-02-26T02:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T02:02:03","slug":"volunselling-pine-illustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/volunselling-pine-illustrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunselling: Pine Illustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Naming-Nature-Needles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-571 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Naming-Nature-Needles-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"Naming Nature Needles\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Naming-Nature-Needles-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Naming-Nature-Needles.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 259px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 259\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, last weekend was Startup Weekend Education in Pittsburgh. A number of us learned some valuable lessons in sales over the course of the weekend, as professor Sweet mentioned in class, and a few of us affirmed via blog. Let me add to the litany of Startup Weekend lesson posts. I call mine &#8220;Volunselling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The weekend worked as such: A minority of the attendees pitched startup ideas, all voted, and the top twelve selected team members from the remainder to launch their startup. In a way, the majority of the attendees of Startup Weekend were volunteering to help the minority make their ideas realities. I was one of these volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>I worked alongside a team of highly-talented movers and shakers on an app called &#8220;Naming Nature.&#8221; The team was comprised of a developer, a graphic designer, a business-savvy idea person, a researcher, a writer, and a guy who performed the miscellaneous jobs uncovered. I was the team artist, illustrating plant specimens for the app&#8217;s identification system.<\/p>\n<p>Illustration request after illustration request, I filled the 54-hour Startup Weekend time limit. My team was grateful for my hard work and valuable watercolors. So grateful, in fact, that I am now working on the side as a freelance illustrator for one of my teammate&#8217;s businesses.<\/p>\n<p>I have long desired to find a way to sell my artistic abilities. The market at times seems hyper-saturated by good and bad artists alike. It can be hard to stand out. And artwork is certainly no commodity. The &#8220;starving artist&#8221; is a real thing.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteering over Startup Weekend was an &#8220;in&#8221; for me. If I applied to the company of any of my teammates before the event I doubt they would ever have considered me. By volunteering, I was able to get my work in front of some of the big names in entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh without pressure or obligation. Volunselling, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, last weekend was Startup Weekend Education in Pittsburgh. A number of us learned some valuable lessons in sales over the course of the weekend, as professor Sweet mentioned in class, and a few of us affirmed via blog. Let me add to the litany of Startup Weekend lesson posts. 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