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She named her app Skolay, which means "purposeful leisure," and she knew writers who were struggling to make a living.
So Samantha Greenspan, a 21-year-old from New York City's Barnard College, created Skolay, an app that connects people with authors and writers for one-on-one meetings, Fast Company reports.
"Simply put, Skolay is a marketplace for conversations that otherwise can't happen," Greenspan writes at the app's website.
Greenspan knew writers who were struggling to make a living and looking for supplemental income.
So she teamed up with her two brothers to create Skolay.
"The best stroke of luck a founder can have is to find one or two mentors early on who have enough experience and dedication to lend a supporting ear and hand," Greenspan tells Fast Company.
That support came in the form of financial support from the Athena Center for Leadership and the Columbia Startup Lab at Barnard.
The center's director and director of applied learning say Greenspan's students left meetings "energized and intrigued about [Greenspan's] journey and, by extension, their own possibilities as budding entrepreneurs."
Skolay is currently in beta testing. Read the Entire Article
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