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Kirstie Pickering

Kirstie Pickering

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Kirstie Pickering is a business journalist based in West Sussex, England.

Since 2014, Kirstie has worked in newsrooms covering business, startups and aviation, most recently as Head of Content at UK startups news platform Maddyness. She is now a freelancer covering the startup ecosystem and beyond. Outside of work, Kirstie is an avid traveler and lover of hiking, with her most recent adventures including trips to Canada and Slovenia.

Software

With 130,000 users, these college students sold their shopping browser extension to Ibotta

Four students with technical skills created a shopping browser extension that sold for millions less than two years later. Here’s how it happened.

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SaaS

Being honest about what she wanted next led this SaaS founder to an acquisition

When Michelle Kwan, who co-founded a real estate marketing company, wanted to try something new, an industry friend was there at the perfect moment.