Milena Berry is CEO/co-founder of PowertoFly.com, a service that connects tech-experienced women preferring to work from home with companies needing vetted technical talent. Prior to this, Milena served for seven years as CTO of the social activism site Avaaz.org.

Thank you for your time today. What caused you to take the leap and found PowertoFly.com?

Getting beyond my fear. I knew what a start-up is like. My husband and I both worked in ones. I understood the demands and how taxing life can be. But I had an entrepreneurial background, starting at 12 years old in Bulgaria when the wall fell. I saw an opportunity in people lining up for days for gasoline. I would buy newspapers and sell them to the people in line for twice what I paid for them. So I had early beginnings.

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