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" Acquiring customers at the start is one of the hardest things you'll ever experiences as an entrepreneur. "
Entrepreneur
Experiences
Start
" As far as funding and building a team, you being romantically involved with your cofounder really shouldn't play a factor in how you run the company and how you create a team or find resources. It's all about the partnership. "
Create
Play
Run
" As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired. "
Almost
Founder
Hired
" As with any other crucial aspect of a growing business, you need the right technology and tools. "
You
Technology
Tools
" At Eventbrite, we care about the whole you, not just the employee you. "
Employee
Care
About
" At Eventbrite, we value quality results over everything else. So while working late is acknowledged, at the end of the day, I care more about the results you're producing. "
Quality
End
Day
" Being a female head of a successful tech company means that I'm in a pretty niche category. "
Successful
Head
Niche
" Being an entrepreneur can be learned, and that is exactly what I have done. You don't have to be born with it or have had the 'lemonade stand.' But, you do need to have the passion, devotion, conviction, and sheer will and drive to make it happen. "
Passion
Make It Happen
Stand
" Being productive at work is rewarding, and feeling supported, challenged, and appreciated allows us to be our most efficient selves. "
Work
Us
Appreciated
" Co-founders shouldn't excel in the same areas - it's inefficient and will inevitably lead to conflicts down the road. "
Will
Same
Road
" Creating a strong company culture isn't just good business. It's the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders - employees, management, and customers. "
Strong
Culture
Better
" During college, in Los Angeles, I interned all over Hollywood. Development roles appealed to me; they were a perfect blend of business and creativity. "
Over
Me
Creativity
" Each company is different because they get their DNA from the founders. "
DNA
Because
Different
" Eventbrite is 50-50 male-female, and this has been accomplished organically. "
Accomplished
Been
Organically
" Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you're putting the most important things first. "
Important
Day
Every Day
" For a global company, it is imperative to respect and honor local culture and weave that into the core company values rather than the other way around. "
Values
Culture
Honor
" For the first two years of Eventbrite, all the work was done by just the three founders: me, my husband, Kevin, and our chief technology officer, Renaud Visage. "
Done
Work
Two
" Four Seasons' legendary brand epitomizes the highest standards for service in the hospitality industry worldwide. "
Brand
Seasons
Service
" Getting over the stigma of needing to appear as if I do it all myself took about 12 months. I finally realized that the only way to be a successful, happy mother, founder, wife, and daughter was to accept the help that was being offered to me. "
Daughter
Wife
Happy
" Getting to profitability does not mean all our problems are solved. "
Getting
Profitability
Mean
" Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture. "
Culture
Leadership
Great
" Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader. "
Important
Know
Want
" I am excited to be working with the dedicated Four Seasons board and leadership team to build upon their reputation for industry-leading customer experiences while seeking out innovative ways to leverage technology that will help spur additional growth. "
Technology
Growth
Team
" I didn't play any extreme sports growing up. I never surfed, and I grew up in Santa Cruz. I was very good at doing what I was told, taking direction, and staying middle of the road. I mean, they called me 'grandma' in college. "
Growing Up
Good
College
" I don't have just one role model - rather, pieces of inspiration from many different entrepreneurs. One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that it naturally enables you to build a village of advisors and role models. "
Great
You
Entrepreneur
" I encourage women who are starting families to think about the five-year horizon. The first few years of parenthood are really hard, but if you stick it out, it gets easier. "
Hard
Horizon
You
" If I were to think of myself as a role model, I would say that it's really important to realize when you are a role model and to be willing to give advice, share how you do things. "
Think
Advice
Important
" I founded Eventbrite when I was 25 and had exactly five professional years under my belt. Perspective was lacking; idealistic views were not. I really had no idea what I was getting myself into, and I'm beyond thrilled I took the leap from a comfortable corporate career into the abyss of founder-hood and entrepreneurship. "
Professional
Leap
Myself
" If you can't see an example of what you could be, you really aren't going to have that extra incentive to break through any types of barriers. "
You
Through
Going
" If you have a cofounder, one of the benefits is you'll get from point A to point B two times faster. "
You
Get
Faster
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