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Filtering the internet's smartest opportunities you didn't know you needed (yet)...
Doone Roisin
February 06, 2026
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🧠 Use AI to work less → Entrepreneur is hosting a free Feb 24 workshop on using AI as an “invisible team” to get founders out of firefighting mode. Less hustle, more leverage, and ~real prompts.
🤖 A CFO in your pocket (free, for now) → A former Lyft IPO lead who’s raised $2B+ just turned 20 years of CFO brainpower into an AI CFO for female founders. Cash flow, forecasting, fundraising, and paying yourself AND early access is free right now.
⏰ $10K grants closing tonight → Skip’s 2026 Kickoff Grants are down to the wire. Two $10,000 grants for U.S.-based founders (no pitch decks, no nonsense). If you’re even thinking about applying - do it right now.
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💚 Senior Designer @ Grid Studios (London) → Social, but cinematic. Join an agency with a state-of-the-art studio creating always-on, episodic, and campaign content for brands that want their shoots to work harder.
💄 Consumer Marketing @ Rare Beauty (LA, $28–$29/hr) → 360 campaigns with heart. Help bring global launches to life across DTC, retail, social, PR, and community for one of beauty’s most purpose-driven brands.
🏐 Field Sales Reps @ Elandr (UK) → Netball, reengineered. A female-founded brand carving out a new category in protective sportswear is hiring field sales reps to grow the future of netball footwear. Reach out directly and get in early.
💄 Pat McGrath’s billion-dollar myth hits reality. The makeup legend’s namesake brand just filed for Chapter 11, halting a planned auction and exposing the brutal truth of celebrity beauty: cultural dominance doesn’t guarantee operational durability.
🥗 Goop Kitchen is coming for NYC lunch. Gwyneth Paltrow is bringing her gluten-free, wellness-industrial-complex menu to Flatiron this summer. The Goop empire keeps finding new ways to monetize “clean.”
🚀 Former Disney star, now defense-tech CEO. Bridgit Mendler’s startup Northwood Space just raised $100M and landed a $50M Space Force contract. From sitcom fame to satellite infrastructure… Career pivots, but make them orbital 💅
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