Startups

E‑commerce strategy for small merchants is becoming quite complicated with Amazon becoming a giant player in the space. This interview cuts through a lot of that complexity.

Emilia Chagas is the Co-Founder of Growth Boulevard and CEO of Contentools.com, a content marketing platform that helps +1,200 marketing teams to plan, create, distribute, and analyze online content. As a content manager for over 8 years, Emilia has lead video, editorial, and web-based content projects in both SMBs and enterprises.

In the freelancing world, work can be very lonely or boring. Remote roles especially experience the little human interaction on a daily basis. Some freelancers experience burnout from the lack of socialization, and with the wide variety of odd jobs or small-scale projects that the gig economy has to offer, freelancers often have trouble attributing meaning to their work.

Airlift is a Pakistani transportation startup that’s building (what it calls) a decentralized mass transit system to offer users a reliable daily commute option. Currently available in Lahore and Karachi, the startup allows users to book rides on premium quality buses and vans that have fixed routes, times and stops.

Along with my co-founder, Alex Cohen, we spent time in the real money gaming industry and then the social gaming industry and thus, after gaining significant experience in both, we decided there was a gap in the market for a content creator who could bring the best of social into real money gaming.

I’m Vanessa Kruze, the Founder and CEO of Kruze Consulting, CPA and big-four alum. I’ve helped startups raise more than $500 million in funding over the last 12 months and am an early adopter of cloud accounting solutions at scale. 

Trevor Sumner is an entrepreneur and investor who has spent the last 15+ years working as a product and marketing executive, building innovative tech companies, products and teams. He’s currently serving as the CEO of PERCH, one of the leaders in physical and digital marketing for retail brands like Macy’s, Estee Lauder, and Coty.

Kasha is an international E‑commerce company in Kenya selling women’s health and self-care products. Founded in Kigali Rwanda in 2016, the fast-growing company aims to break the stigma associated in getting access to products/services in line with menstrual care, contraceptives and HIV self-tests.

Oradian is a financial inclusion company that enables financial institutions in the emerging markets to know and control better their portfolios by digital transformation. Its cloud-based financial software provides access to capital for over a million impoverished people.

Believe it or not, at 20-years of age, I was set on a career in fashion. I absolutely love clothes, style and the art of designing. What I didn’t know was how difficult it was to turn this passion into a lucrative career.