“There are problems in the world that cannot be changed by money,” Alfia Ilicheva
Dispelling “the entrepreneurial myth” of being hit by a lightning bolt of a brilliant idea that then becomes the next Facebook or Google, Alfia Ilicheva and Maria Potoroczyn, cofounders of the educational nonprofit Women in Innovation, reminded us that Facebook and Google did not come out of the box as they are today. They started as technologies that were addressing a simple issue that the founders were looking for and went through a massive number of iterations to find their value and business model.
Image: Alfia Ilicheva (l) & Maria Potorocyzn (r) from Women in Innovation WOMENININNOVATION.CO