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Female Founders: Two Women Disrupt Shower Head Industry

The Startup Magazine

Vitaclean HQ is a lifestyle product with a sustainability twist. 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. A Vitaclean is a shower head with three levels of filtration for instant soft hair and skin.

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

The Startup Toolkit

Tech businesses theoretically get this for free once the product is built, since most websites can do their thing without you being on call. A related problem we hit is partnering with other companies (which is important for us). But the companies we partner with probably aren’t in the same situation.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I wanted to be able to provide pet information along with cannabis and hemp products to help their pets live better lives, so in 2015 I started VETCBD. It’s very fulfilling to be able to see these brands grow and be able to employ all sorts of people and see how their products have a positive impact on their customers.

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Episode 39: Cash Flow and Niche Focusing with David Knowles and Kacee Johnson

Mike Michalowicz

Before joining Creditsafe, he led the brand strategy for a number of international beer and cider brands in Europe, such as Aspall, Steinlager, Toohey’s, and Iceland’s leading brewer, Vifilfell. Corporate Partners. A graduate of the University of Wales, Knowles lives and works in Cardiff, Wales, from Creditsafe’s U.K.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

US drug powerhouse Pfizer and Iceland-based Actavis were among the bidders in the final round, but Teva beat their offers. Brazil is Israel’s largest trade partner in Latin America. Since 2003 the global market for children’s nutrition and infant formula products has nearly doubled reaching about $23 billion in 2009.

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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. Obviously, I release products at my job. And I think that's very natural.