A version of this article appeared in the May 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review.
SpinVox CEO Christina Domecq on Making the Most of Mentors
At age 26, while slogging through 14 voice mails on her phone, Christina Domecq realized there might be a business in converting audio messages into text. Within a few months, in 2003, she had turned that idea into the start-up SpinVox. The Marlow, England–based voice-to-text service has already been picked up by a dozen carriers […]
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The CEO of SpinVox, a start-up that provides voice-to-text service, says her relationships with her mentors have been the key to her entrepreneurial success.
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