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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

The startup was launching its product there, and as part of the promotion plan, we were to go into bars in the evenings and sign people up to use their service. The manager of the promotion knew me from having worked on another promotion at the previous year’s SXSW festival for State Farm, and she liked my work. How did I get the gig?

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

In addition to entrepreneurship, she has a background in chemical engineering, supply chain management, biomedical engineering research, microbiology research, and new product development for U.S. Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland). and Indian companies. The majority of our $2.9M