Bettina Hein - "Fearless Founder"

<p><strong><span style="color: #e67e23;">Join Sal's Investment Syndicate List: <span style="color: #000000;"><a href= "https://www.angelinvestboston.com/our-syndicates">Click to Join</a></span></span></strong></p> <p>Bettina Hein is the founder of Pixability, one of the fastest-growing companies in Massachusetts. She was also co-founder of SVOX, a profitable Swiss startup sold to Nuance Communications for $125MM. This record may make her success seem easier to achieve than it was. Bettina Hein overcame numerous obstacles to justify the sobriquet “Fearless Founder”. Learn from her as I did. She is an exemplar of resilience, grace under fire and plain common sense. She also has much to teach us about how a startup might best raise money. Whenever I ask angel investors about a remarkable pivot by a founder, there’s a good chance Bettina’s name will come up. Don’t miss this charming and instructive conversation with a star founder.</p> <p>Here are topics and quotes from the interview:</p> <ul> <li>Bettina Hein Bio</li> <li>How Bettina Hein Found Her Entrepreneurial Path in Life</li> <li>Bettina Hein Used to Write Computer Programs in Fourth Grade but Did Not Learn to Code in College; Why?</li> <li>Professors Discouraged Bettina Hein from Pursuing a Career in the Sciences</li> <li>“If I had to go back, I would probably get an undergraduate degree in either electrical engineering or computer science.”</li> <li>“I think I wanted to be an entrepreneur very early on. There's just that example that was set in my family. There's no one in my family that has had a nine to five job ever, except my brother…”</li> <li>Bettina Hein Founds an Entrepreneurship Initiative for Students at her University Called Start, that Leads her to Brains-to-Venture, Which Connects Her with Her co-founders in SVOX</li> <li>SVOX Has a $125 MM Exit to Nuance Communications</li> <li>Bettina Hein Starts Pixability – Looked for Co-founders But Could Not Find Any Willing Takers – How She made Being a Solo Founder Work</li> <li>Pixability’s Storied Pivo