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Female Founders: Two Women Disrupt Shower Head Industry

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Vitaclean Founders Sara and Kristina. Vitaclean is also releasing a Shimmer, Coffee Coconut scrub in partnership with Solyna , a foundation that fights against human trafficking in Cambodia. Watch this space for more… The post Female Founders: Two Women Disrupt Shower Head Industry appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Tired Of Your Job? Do Something Different With Escape The City

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Past “escapes” included managing a beach lodge in Mozambique, trekking across the Gobi desert, running a post office in Antarctica, or even clearing land mines in Cambodia. More fun that watching icons on your computer screens squiggle, for sure. “Ultimately I lost trust in the whole financial system.”

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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

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Founder: Dennis Chim. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . I grew up in Houston, TX and come from humble beginnings; my mom was a single parent and refugee from Cambodia. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? Company: Influencer Direct. And your least?

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My Water Pilgrimage:

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Right: Umesh, Founder of NEWAH. Almost half of its working-age population are unemployed, and the latest United Nations Human Development Index ranks Nepal at #144 out of 188 countries, coming in behind Cambodia (#143), Zambia (#139), and Iraq (#121). I packed some Imodium and a sleeping bag, and I was on my way to Kathmandu.

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How to Find Hundreds of Business Ideas

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Founder Nick Woodman had recently been been on a surfing trip to Indonesia. Like something you might stumble across in Cambodia, perhaps? And, there’s the added bonus of encouraging people to drive better. Very clever. I’ll leave you with one last example. Ever heard of GoPro? They’re a camera company that got started in 2002.

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VC Cafe Turns 9

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Related to that, my post on ‘ Lean Market Research ‘ was a summary of a talk I gave to entrepreneurship students at London Business School and is a good first step when you’re entertaining a startup idea as a founder or investor.

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

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I sat down with David Spandorfer , co-founder of Janji , a running apparel company, to talk about the intersection of an everyday need, water, and an act of physical activity that almost everyone can do, running. This past fall we did Libya, the season before that we did Uganda, and we’re going to be doing Cambodia in 2019.

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