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Kathryn Minshew

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

The idea for The Muse came from a personal pain point; I realized that many people felt lost in their careers and needed guidance.

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Kathryn Minshew at Female Founders Conference 2014

@ Y Combinator

Kathryn Minshew at Female Founders Conference 2014

03/13/14

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Kathryn Minshew

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

The Muse helps people figure out what they want to do with their lives by providing career advice and insights into different roles within companies.

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Kathryn Minshew

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

I'm Kathryn Minshew, the founder and CEO of The Muse, which helps people discover their career paths and provides job opportunities, career advice, and insights into company cultures.

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Kathryn Minshew

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

To build The Muse, we focused on creating valuable career content to attract users before we had job listings, which helped us establish a marketplace.

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Kathryn Minshew

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

Creating great content on career issues helped us grow our audience and generate buzz around The Muse, as it appealed to a wider audience than just job seekers.

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Kathryn Minshew

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

I want to take you through some of the mistakes we made and the lessons learned while building The Muse.

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Kathryn Minshew

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

When starting The Muse, I felt a lot of anxiety about our product, which I viewed as an ugly duckling, unsure if it would ever develop into a swan.

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Kathryn Minshew

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

When we launched The Muse, I reached out to my contacts via email to ask for word-of-mouth support, which led to significant initial traction.

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Kathryn Minshew

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

The Muse's first website, launched in 2011, was not great, but it attracted 20,000 users in the first month, indicating we struck a chord despite its flaws.

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Kathryn Minshew

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

We launched our first version of The Muse using a WordPress site, providing career advice targeted at women in their twenties, despite investors claiming it was a small market.