Beauty Pie’s Marcia Kilgore on finding billion dollar ideas: ‘You have to be willing to try something crazy’
Finding novel ideas is about looking for gaps in the market, questioning everything and ultimately following your curiosity, says the 5x beauty entrepreneur
From a young age, it was always clear that Marcia Kilgore was going to become an entrepreneur — if anything, just to be her own boss.
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Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.