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👩💻 Meet Kathy Silva
Kathy is the founder and Chief Operations Officer at TAINR. After her own frustrations as a shopper looking to eliminate plastic use, she used her product development expertise to start TAINR in 2021. TAINR provides zero-waste refill technology that helps producers and consumer packaged goods offer a convenient plastic-free shopping experience for dry foods.
(Kathy Silva/TAINR)
Lessons Learned
Over the process of founding her own company, Kathy has learned a few key lessons and insights.
Growth is uncomfortable and unfamiliar until it’s not. Then, you need to grow some more.
Fail fast because failure is the inevitable path to success.
(Kathy Silva/TAINR)
📚 Kathy's Best Stack Ever
The tools and software she uses to run her business.
Google Workspace for email, calendar, docs (Daily)
Zoom for video calls (Daily)
DocSend for sending pitch decks (Daily)
Slack for team communication (Daily)
Trello for project and task management (Daily)
Fusion 360 for 3d modeling (Weekly)
Later for social media scheduling (Weekly)
Canva for content creation (Weekly)
Illustrator for all things design (Weekly)
Pulley for cap table management (Monthly)
QuickBooks for bookkeeping (Monthly)
The one product she couldn’t live without? Trello. Kathy uses it to keep track of the “insane amount of things that need to be done.”
Kathy says she spends the most amount of time each week emailing, fundraising and managing projects.
The advice she'd give to others
“Surround yourself with founders and advisors that have done this before. They will add fuel to your fire when you need it the most.”
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If you have any questions or feedback, you can reach me at [email protected]
Always remember to have courage and be kind 💫
Ellen at Best Stack Ever
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