Today's Entrepreneur: Kristin LaSalle
No. 1 Mistake: Not making a step by step approach.
Instamour Inc. self-categorizes in these areas: Mobile, Online Dating, Location-based, and Video.
Here's a little about LaSalle:
Companies I've founded or co-founded: Instamour
Achievements (products built, personal awards won): Techie.com Emerging top 100 Startups
If you are an entrepreneur, why? I want to invent something cool.
My favorite startups: Drop Box, Living Social, Tasten ,See2B
What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
The best part of entrepreneurship / innovation is watching your ideas come to life and watching your company grow from a whiteboard to a full platform. I learned so much from my startup and I'm still learning . I meet new people who are all creative and inspiring and I have an amazing team who are like family to me now. The most frustrating thing about being an entrepreneur is having an amazing app but pitching over and over again to investors who don't understand the potential of your market and space. When you have been bootstrapping for awhile you just want someone to believe in your innovation as much as you do .
Not taking a step by step approach and trying to add too many features or great ideas into a unfinished product at once. Take one idea at a time and build your house log by log don't try to build an estate when you only have the materials for a log cabin .
1. Don't forget why you started your company always stay humble.
2. Good marketing is everything , so always build a strong marketing team.
3. Make sure you hire and network/pitch to people who understand your space.
Kristin has been a promotional model and spokesperson for large companies such as Ogilvy & Mather in Manhattan, NY. She is a women's advocate blogger and has been featured on the Today show and CelebrityFitness.com. She has had an extensive career in sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry and has been a matchmaker and relationship counselor in Philadelphia. Most recently she has co-founded and is the VP of Marketing for a new company that has released a disruptive video relationship app called Instamour.
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A revolutionary new way to form a real relationship using video technology, and modern communication methods in realtime. We believe the best way to get to know someone is by actually seeing and hearing their personality before meeting. Pictures and text just don't work. With video profiles, instant messaging, photo and video messaging, live video calling, and no unwanted emails, Instamour is the next evolution in mobile dating.
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