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Things To Expect As A Woman Founder When Starting A Tech-Based Company

YoungUpstarts

I pitched to 86 investors before getting the green signal from only 5 of them. It is necessary to involve the rest of the family members and distribute this workload amongst them, at the end of the day, even superwoman can use some help. Making Balance Between Personal and Professional Life. Dealing With The Fear of Failure.

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Scaling Solutions to Climate Change — A review of John Doerr’s “Speed and Scale”?

Reid Hoffman

The decision to ramp up pre-approval production on multiple COVID-19 vaccines so they’d be ready to distribute if proven effective was a classic blitzscaling tactic. Over the last few years, I’ve also come to realize there are much broader applications for a blitzscaling approach. Then, there’s climate change.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Rickshaw drivers in India have cell phones as do camel drivers in the remote Rajasthan desert. Farmers subscribed to daily updates via SMS on weather and crop prices.

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Twitter Link Roundup #224 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Klyati Trehan , a design student from India created a phenomenally impressive project, combining science and typography to visually represent 26 inventions that have changed the world. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. Find Out How – crowdspring.co/1j0S8nO.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

(Company) a good place to find good technical co-founders? Where can I find co-founders who understand distributed systems and databases? How have non-technical founders found technical co-founders? Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? Rockstar v. Yes I agree too.