Challenges of being a tech entrepreneur - Jess Butcher

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Challenges of being a tech entrepreneur - Jess Butcher

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Jessica Butcher MBE is a tech entrepreneur, angel investor, speaker and mentor. She is perhaps most famous as one of the co-founders of Blippar, a pioneer in Augmented Reality which was once valued at over $1billion and described as one of the 20 most disruptive brands in the world. She is the recipient of numerous awards including BBC’s Top 100 women.In this episode:How falling in love led to her big break as an entrepreneurHow Blippar created Augmented Reality and what it was like on board a rocket ship that went from 4 to 350 employees and a valuation of $1billion.Why someone with a degree in history wanted to be a tech entrepreneurWhich client inspired them to create Blippar enabled business cardsHaving 3 children in 4 years and how that changed her prioritiesThe challenge of scaling a business and knowing your limitsHow social media is promoting polarisation, narcissism and infinite scroll time-wasting and how tech needs to become more humaneWe need to identify between healthy and junk technology and treat it as suchPreparing the child for the road not the road for the childThe inspiration behind Tick.Done and how it will help people learn how to do things without getting sucked into infinite scrollThis is part 1 of the interview with Jess and we’ll be returning in Season2 to discuss what it's like being a woman in tech.Follow me:Twitter | @uncensoredCMOLinkedInContact me:Website | www.uncensoredcmo.comEmail – [email protected] Butcher:TwitterTick DoneBlipparThe Coddling of the American Mind

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