Paul Graham says in the how to start a business, in my company, almost everyone is a beast. My Sales Director, the woman was as stubborn and even let me on her phone of potential customers feel sorry for. You can feel their struggle is now the head phone, like a fish on the hook, but before the Agency, they will not get any chance of escape. These women have more powerful, if you want to listen to their start-up stories.
Three years of y Combinator Demo Day, we could see a woman, and this Demo Day, 66 in venture companies, six companies have at least one female entrepreneur, or all women. Here are the great women of the y Combinator (also missed two, then make up, they are the PlanGrid Tracy MedMonk and Youn Somaira Punjwani of
1）Nikki Durkin
Company: 99Dresses
When she was only eight years old, he wrote his first business planning department, born in Australia of rural girls, eager to get a horse, due to pray out, riding her people to local cooperatives, asking prices of Hay, calculated about spending, wrote an analysis of income and expenditure. She said: “from then on, I was very good at understanding how to get what I wanted. ”
At the age of 15, she and her 13-year old brother began their first online business–KultKandy. Design their own t-shirts, produced in China and direct shipment. When I was in College, she also made clothing Exchange concepts and ideas on the Facebook, friends told the Sydney, less than three weeks, 20,000 women registered in the world. Durkin says: “really have no intention of this project was a big success, but it was caused by the resonance, the girls love. “20 years of Durkin said.
She is, like the establishment of a women can post photos and wardrobes for clothes Exchange, sellers can set the price and shipping, buyers do not have to use real money, it is a virtual currency “Buttion”, enable buyers to create the illusion of a free goods. Each Buttion now $ 1.
Less than four months time, upload 4,500 women dress sold 3,500 items, prior to the recognized business consultant Matt Barrie, she did not even know that y Combinator. Durkin said: “I told him I wanted to enter the United States market, but I can’t get in touch with any of the technical team. “Later, cooperation, and another co-founder, bring the company out of Australia moved to the Bay area. Kurkin, where more opportunities.
2）Olga Vidisheva
Company: Shoptiques
After the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Vidisheva from Kyrgyzstan ran over to the United States, also minor, she could not even cover their own living expenses or cannot afford Wellesley College tuition, living on so she can work as a part time model, wearing binsheman clothes, endorsements vacuum cleaner ads.
Even her own surprise, several years later, her experience has paid off. She founded the–Shoptiques e-commerce site, a high-end boutique shops open to the Internet. Even the day before Demo Day, there will be three Silicon Valley’s top venture firms rushing into the company, including Benchmark Capital and Greylock Capital,Andreessen Horowitz.
Vidisheva have modeling experience, she knows how to display merchandise to her customers and produce high quality clothing pictures. Shoptiques your own selection of boutique clothing, take pictures, make a directory, in the tidal waves of men women who select and purchase online, Shoptiques is responsible for all logistics and provide tracking and analysis services, billing services, by means of a share the revenue with merchants profit, and now United States 50 shops have cooperation.
Vidisheva has not only a pretty face, she graduated from United States National Honorary organization of University students, she also is a Goldman Sachs Investment Bank, this man as one of the two women in the group. Godfather of venture capital Paul Graham introduced her to the startups Anyvite’s venture capital team, when Dan and Jeff Morin when considering companies what to do next, Graham introduce them to Vidisheva, tried to work a few weeks later, found it fit to really work together. Vidisheva said: “Paul Graham always has a remarkable ability to determine which people can work very well together.”
3）Elli Sharef,
Company: HireArt
Born in Colombia, mother is doctor of economics. Evaluation of her mother “she rich minded and full of wisdom, I never thought I’d be a man or a woman, she just told me to have vision, doing their own thing, try to do some useful things in the world”.
Sharef is a founder of HireArt and, selecting talent for the company, company personnel, and the first step is simple. Specifically refer to the article before the Lei Feng network y Combinator Demo Day: the first group introduction
HireArt weekly 40% rate growth now, with 238 open position. Each candidate can successfully be admitted, companies will be able to get a certain amount of revenue, such as for certain fees, or for some candidates in the ratio of wages. Sharef said: “the company will collect from your employer in the future more about interview questions or test data, which issues are the most effective, our work can be seen as you SAT to work for different design”.
4) Kathryn Minshew,Alex Cavoulacos and Melissa McCreery
Company: The Daily Muse
Their three friends at McKinsey, analysis phases in the next two years, three people found that they work well together to work together, and then think about what to do next. They have three co-founded The Daily Muse, is some information gathered with the high achievement of women. Their website gives some career advice, salary negotiation tips, interview techniques and how to manage other people met for the first time.
But they lost a lucrative sector: job search. Because this website is starting to attract a small number of valuable audiences, they are from some of the top universities, employers who are curious, the company how to recruit talented women.
McKinsey said: “have to pick a job, rather than pick them, we feel the need to show some good company, women and men have different views on the same matter, women like to go shopping, browse, and search is built on a Foundation, you know what you want”. (Because it does not work search mechanism? ）
The Daily Muse have plenty of company introduction about company culture and explain what will be working in a company, also will interview videos and pictures of the Office of the company. McKinsey said: “we want to be a young professional woman trusted career information website, helped them find a more suitable place to work”.
The Daily Muse currently has 25 paying companies, pay fees will vary each month, probably around $ 1500, and 70 to cooperation companies. There is no denying that any content-focused Web site would face some problems on a large scale, but McCreery said that their team of experienced and said: “we never think we are a media company, we have done large scale content”.
/Lei feng’s network