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How did you get started?

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So how I got started it can be started in terms of the

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the initial point in time

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Number of different ways I got started specifically with innovation women in 2014

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Where I just got fed up. I had been to a couple of conferences

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kind of one right on top of another where there were no women speakers or a very small number of women speakers and

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I was starting to get annoyed and incensed about it and I said, you know what I own the domain

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innovation women I

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work with

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founders I work with technical women I could just create a platform that allows event managers and

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female speakers to directly connect so in the summer of

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2014 I sat down and kind of looked at things like Kickstarter and said I could crowdfund the money

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to hire a developer to create this platform and so I did in the fall of

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2014 I kicked off a crowdfunding project

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Brought in I think it was about $22,000 that enabled me to hire a development team to create the platform

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and we launched in 2015 and

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Really talked at that point about the mission of getting more women on stage at conferences and events

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and how two-thirds of all conference speakers are men and

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That kind of kicked off where we are today