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From An Idea to A Growing Startup, Cal Students Make The World Safer

From An Idea to A Growing Startup, Cal Students Make The World Safer

11 July 2011 | Uncategorized

By Jennifer Toney (Founder & CEO, WeMakeItSafer) Thousands of products, accounting for hundreds-of-millions of individual items, are recalled each year for safety defects; yet, historically, only about 20% are ever returned or fixed. Most people simply do not...
Survey Monkey and Amazon Mechanical Turk Validated My Startup Idea

Survey Monkey and Amazon Mechanical Turk Validated My Startup Idea

17 June 2011 | Uncategorized

By Lindsay Harper (Founder, Swayable) So you have your genius idea that you just know everyone is going to love, why on earth would you need to do user testing? After all, since the idea is genius everyone is just going to “get it” from the first visit...

Women's Digital League: First All-Female Virtual Startup in Pakistan

6 June 2011 | Uncategorized

By Maria Umar (Founder, Women’s Digital League) Two years ago, I launched a startup called the Women’s Digital League. It’s a virtual firm that provides basic digital administrative services to clients around the world that I often describe as proudly owned and...
Women’s Digital League: First All-Female Virtual Startup in Pakistan

Women’s Digital League: First All-Female Virtual Startup in Pakistan

6 June 2011 | Uncategorized

By Maria Umar (Founder, Women’s Digital League) Two years ago, I launched a startup called the Women’s Digital League. It’s a virtual firm that provides basic digital administrative services to clients around the world that I often describe as proudly owned and...
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