Keeping A 'ceo Blog' Or 'founder's Blog'

Much-derided Chick Lit, Chick Flicks, And Chick Magazines Have Left Ambitious Women In A Bind. Why Is It That I, A Young Woman, Can Read Gq, Enjoy Fight Club, And Subscribe To Thrillist, While The Idea Of A Guy Doing The Same With Glamour, 27 Dresses And Daily Candy Is Nearly Unheard Of?

We Knew When We Started The Daily Muse, We Wanted A Recruiting-focused Business Model Rather Than An Advertising-focused One. We Felt Like Publishers Were Being Forced To Go To More And More Extreme Lengths To Monetize Through Advertising.

My First Company Failed Completely. And It Failed At About Ten Months Old. I Had About 12 Months Of Savings, So When It Failed I Was Thinking: 'do I Go Back To Work?' And At That Point I Believed So Deeply In What I Was Doing That I Couldn't Imagine Anything Else Other Than Trying To Make This Business Work.

For Almost The First Year Of The Muse's Life, I Would Do 5 To 8 Networking Events A Week. And I Don't Necessarily Think That's The Right Path For Everyone, But I Realized That As An Entrepreneur, One Of My Strengths Was Finding The Right People Who Could Help Us. I Didn't Come Into Startups With Any Network.

Get Your Product In Front Of Actual, Living, Breathing Strangers. Your College Roommate's Approval Does Not Mean There's Market Demand.