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Hind Hobeika
Founder and CEO, Instabeat
Hind Hobeika is the founder and CEO at Instabeat, a revolutionary tracking device that allows swimmers to monitor their heartbeats and workouts in realtime. Dubbed the “Google Glass and the Nike Fuelband for swimming,” Instabeat is endorsed by Olympians and Ironman triathletes for improving performance and motivation in the water.
She holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from the American University of Beirut. As an undergrad, she won third place in the multi-stage competition, “Stars of Science”—a pan-Arab reality show featuring young, predominantly male, student innovators racing to turn their ideas into marketable products. MIT Technology Review named her one of the “Top 5 Pan Arab innovators under 35” and Forbes featured her as one of 7 “Hottest Global startups” in 2013
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Staying Motivated through Disappointments & Failure
How can you stay motivated during times of failure? Hind Hobeika, solo-founder and CEO of Instabeat, shares insights on staying motivated through different scenarios, like manufacturing failures, running out of funding, disappointing customers, or missing a deadline to ship your product.
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Going Solo: Founding a Startup without a Co-Founder
Anecdotal evidence suggests that being a solo founder carries more risk than co-founding a startup. Hind Hobeika discusses her reasons for not adding a co-founder and provides ways to rethink the critical decision of having a partner or going solo.
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Entrepreneurs, Stress & Depression
Two entrepreneurs share their experiences with varying levels of stress and depression as twenty-somethings at early-stage startups.
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