External Affirmations: A Necessity for Startups
As a startup founder, sometimes your passion, motivation and determination are not enough to sustain you through the difficult times. Often times, we turn to family and friends who smile knowingly trying to give us helpful advice and encouragement. Finally, its not uncommon for CEOs and other founders to take multiple meetings (have "coffee" 5 times a day) with potential investors giving them updates and receive polite smiles and advice.In the end, how do you know its working? Especially, when you're pre-revenue? Often times a startup needs other external affirmation to keep going, and if its an investor who's willing to take a chance on a pre-revenue company, that works as well.
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| Mavi Miller of KuKy |
In this vein, we'd like to congratulate one of our teams - KuKy's founder Mavi Miller for gaining acceptance into Yale Entreprenuerial Institute (YEI)'s inaugural Summer Venture Creation Program. The operating board of YEI's Summer Fellowship program had identified KuKy as one of the five most promising teams for incubation. Mavi Miller and her teammates will be spending the Summer of 2014 at Yale in YEI's incubator.
Not one to rest on her laurels, Mavi Miller is in Taiwan and Shanghai for her Spring break and talking to various experts and teams to further develope her KuKy venture. Go KuKy!
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