Ep: 028 - Maya Rafie - Bistara - The Freelance Marketplace to Hire College Students for Creative Gigs

Maya Rafie is founder of Bistara, the first freelance marketplace to hire college students for creative gigs. Maya, a freelance photographer, founded Bistara while attending Emerson College. Bistara encourages students to "be your own boss" in order to build up a portfolio of work prior to graduation. Today, there are over 700 freelancers and over 300 clients on the platform. In the episode, Maya talks about: How they originally started building out the marketplace for Bistara The experience of starting a company in college Why students have a hard time valuing their talents and how they can overcome it Tips for clients and freelancers to be more successful on the platform Links from today's episode: Bistara Maya's Photography Trill Elliott Erwitt Lightroom Google Calendar Asana WhatsApp Les eaux troubles du mojito : Et autres belles raisons d'habiter sur terre (Book) If you liked this episode: Follow the podcast on Twitter

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Ep: 028 - Maya Rafie - Bistara - The Freelance Marketplace to Hire College Students for Creative Gigs is an episode from Startup Boston Podcast: Entrepreneurs | Investors | Influencers | Founders by Nic Dupuis.

This episode is 23:41 long.

This episode was published on Dec 13, 2016.

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