ForewordOver 90% of tech startups fail, but I never thought my baby, 99dresses, would be one of them. If there is one thing that doing a startup has taught me, it’s that I am much more resilient than I could have ever imagined. Looking back, when I started 99dresses fresh out of high school I was very naive and had zero idea what I was doing. In fact, I didn’t even know what a startup was! I just
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