Why Young Female Entrepreneurs Need Mentors by Sejal Hathi

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27 Oct Why Young Female Entrepreneurs Need Mentors by Sejal Hathi

I remember when I decided to launch my first company with my co-founder, Tara Roberts. Both of us had nurtured an exquisitely intricate vision for girltank — an online portal for girl entrepreneurs. We envisaged our website as the consummate space for sourcing, supporting and connecting female entrepreneurs, and imagined and incorporated all the bells and whistles possible for a virtual community. We just needed to build it.

The problem was, of course, neither of us knew how. That’s why it ultimately took us eight months, three different designers, thousands of dollars and a bottomless reserve of grit and resilience to finally forge even a rough draft of our vision. So often I felt like giving up and giving in. I remember questioning how we could possibly presume to help other entrepreneurs amplify their dreams if we could not even build our own. Yet luckily, Tara and I found the right mentors and support networks that held our hand to the end. And now, we are trying to offer the same for aspiring young women innovators everywhere.

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