Sheetal Dube is a founder and user experience consultant who has helped companies build technology products. She shares her experience taking her own ideas to the next level by founding AudioName.com. She recommends validating your idea, finding a committed team, identifying your minimum viable product, getting feedback and iterating, staying calm, recruiting advisors and peers for support, and sticking with it through challenges as you take the plunge to turn your ideas into a startup. Portland offers many startup networking resources like Startup Weekend, incubators, and angel funds to support first-time founders.