It's really inspiring to see an idea go from conception to 'success'! Thanks for sharing your timeline!
Wanelo: The First Million Users
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it relevant that she's female?
That's the real question. It's not like being a female is a handicap or something.
It isn't but VCs have been known to avoid female founders for fear of them not working as hard as men since 'they'll have a baby sometime' or some nonsense like that [1]. Also women face gender discrimination in the bay area. [2]
source: [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/pregnant-founders-response-to...
[2] http://valleywag.gawker.com/this-is-why-there-arent-enough-w...
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#23"I am not tech, but i started with doing tech (website?) stuff". Am i missing something?
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#24Churchill was right. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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#25Deena Varshavskaya (Wanelo) at Startup Grind 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgtHV8DSrgI
Glimpse Conference SF 2013: Fireside Chat - Wanelo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1g4s4HmLIU
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#26Loved a particular slide about how they (she?) did it: "The right people: builders and get-shit-done-ers, pragmatic, non religious about tech, move fast, team over rockstars"
I saw a few projects where "developers" were not religious about tech.. they still using ftp for php files deployment, "BUT HEY! THE SHIT IS DONE!" :).
I don't want be sarcastic, but i think every startup team should have at least one engineer who will know what to do, at every iteration of the project.
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#27This is an entirely bogus history. She had a tech co-founder and cut him out. I met him back in 2009. https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=8860093
Why lie about it?
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#28This is an entirely bogus history. She had a tech co-founder and cut him out. I met him back in 2009. https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=8860093 Why lie about it?
Because that's how you get in the news.
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#29This is a really impressive story. I wish we got more background about the 2010 era, before she hired engineers in San Francisco? Was this site completely freelancer developed initially? How many users did she get before shipping out to cali? BTW, this site is really taking off with young, social-media crazed teenagers, so keep an eye on it! Already at 8MM users, it's similar to pinterest with a business model that r…
According to Wikipedia they passed 10 million users in August 2013, 90% of which are American women.
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#30This is an entirely bogus history. She had a tech co-founder and cut him out. I met him back in 2009. https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=8860093 Why lie about it?
Does anyone have evidence of this claim that doesn't require a LinkedIn account to view?