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Female Founders: Two Women Disrupt Shower Head Industry

The Startup Magazine

Sara (Australian and Icelandic) and Kristina (Bulgarian) met while working for fashion content powerhouse INDIGITAL GROUP in London when the concept of Vitaclean was born. After scouring the internet researching water softening systems, they came to the conclusion that most were expensive, hard to install and cumbersome.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

This was borne out of my personal frustrations in scouring the internet and needing to stitch together my own half-baked solutions. I then partnered with other PR firms in the US to assist and grow their client base and in turn, grew mine as well. I started off with 8 clients and it quickly grew to 30 in one year. 19- From a dream.

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Megaupload and the Future of Multi-tenant Services

Feld Thoughts

This is a draft post by Dave Jilk, a long time friend, business partner, and CEO of Standing Cloud. While I was in Iceland a few weeks ago, there was a set of discussions driven by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures about trying to make Iceland and “Internet Neutrality Zone” similar to Switzerland and banking.

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Two years of remote working – hiring, scaling, culture, and the lifestyle trade-off

The Startup Toolkit

A related problem we hit is partnering with other companies (which is important for us). Even if we could fix all our internal issues, we still need to flex toward the our partners’ ways of working. For example, we’ve set up our comms so we can be away from internet for a week or more without negative effects.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : I appreciate you saying that, and we should certainly reserve a moment to say thank you to all of the spouses and supportive partners that have made possible so much of this relief work that we have been talking about in this series of conversations. T omas Pueyo : Yeah. Tomas Pueyo : That's funny, so a couple of things.