We love building with our community and listening to you about how OwnTrail will most meet your needs, and that feedback is what led us to launch two changes to milestones: present tense milestones and privacy settings.
One of the powerful things about OwnTrail is the ability for our stories to reach countless women. When you share your trail or answer questions or comments in a conversation about your trail, the work you put into owning your story can inspire every woman that needs to hear it. While the reach and impact …
In our Trail Guides program, the first phase is focused on Reflection. This is because one of the most powerful ways to move forward in our journey is to first take a look at where we’ve been. We take inventory of what tools and resources we can bring with us, what perceptions and patterns served us …
OwnTrail’s mission is to advance women individually and systemically. So far we’ve been tackling this from a foundation of technology, building ways for women to share their authentic life paths and browse those of others. But we know that succeeding at this major ambition also requires real human connection. And our recent survey results and user interviews …
When we first launched OwnTrail, we started with sharing. We created the ability for women to share the trails they had blazed through life as micro acts of mentorship, in order to provide solidarity and inspiration to other women. And share they did — we have seen the most authentic, vulnerable, universally REAL trails being shared so …
We launched the ability to filter trails on OwnTrail this week, and while filtering on a website doesn’t seem too newsworthy at first glance, what it means in the larger picture is a big deal. This functionality is a step towards helping womxn see people who look like them in the places they aspire to. Representation doesn’t …
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On this Mother’s Day, I wanted to give a nod to a new kind of mother that I’ve become this year: an entrepreneur growing my start-up baby. I had heard that starting a company is akin to having a baby (also akin to getting an MBA, but that’s for another time), and I can see …
We first launched the beta of OwnTrail to the public two months ago, and we have been blown away by how inspiring and REAL the trails that women have been sharing are already. The vulnerability and authenticity that we had hoped for is coming to life already, and the feedback we’ve heard from women who are exploring those trails …
There have been a lot of perspectives shared by VCs about managing startups during the age of Coronavirus, from Sequoia’s Black Swan warning to Haystack’s advice for fundraising during a pandemic. As a first-time founder experiencing a rather jarring beginning to entrepreneurship due to the sudden state of the world, these perspectives have been really insightful and appreciated. …
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I was getting coffee recently with a young woman who had reached out to me. I block off my calendar for a few of these coffees each week, and tend to prioritize meeting with people who are underrepresented in their fields — I feel it’s an important opportunity and responsibility of being a leader. This …
