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Ilana Ben-Ari
Ilana Ben-Ari

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Oct 12, 2018

Turns Out Designing a Toy That Teaches Failure is Really Hard

My 3 year journey designing the world’s first Failure Toy — Mirvish Village — Markham House photo via Anna Vanderbrand Designing Failure This is a photograph from September 2015, of me and my design intern at the time, Jenny. Jenny’s great, incredibly talented, and during her 4 month internship with my company, Twenty One Toys, I had her work with me on our…

Startup

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Turns Out Designing a Toy That Teaches Failure is Really Hard
Turns Out Designing a Toy That Teaches Failure is Really Hard
Startup

9 min read


Jan 2, 2018

My startup turned 5, and I feel weird.

My startup Twenty One Toys turned 5 years old this summer, and I feel weird about it. I knew when we turned 5 that it was a big deal. Statistics show that 50% of all new businesses fail within the first 5 years. Just ‘not dying’ is a HUGE achievement…

Female Entrepreneurs

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My startup turned 5, and I feel weird.
My startup turned 5, and I feel weird.
Female Entrepreneurs

4 min read


Dec 13, 2016

These aren’t my pants — and other ways I’m bootstrapping my way to the top.

These are photographs of me at various events that I’ve spoken at. None of these outfits are mine. The pants are my sister’s, the shirts my roommates’, and the dresses are my old friend and roommate’s, Akua’s. She’s famous now, so it’s fine. There are a lot of secrets when…

Startup

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These aren’t my pants — and other ways I’m bootstrapping my way to the top.
These aren’t my pants — and other ways I’m bootstrapping my way to the top.
Startup

9 min read


Nov 22, 2016

What fighting in the woods for $500,000 taught me about supporting female entrepreneurship.

Originally published on Yonge Street Media “Just two weeks ago, Ilana Ben-Ari, founder and CEO of Twenty One Toys spent the weekend with four other female CEOs, in the woods, negotiating for her portion of half a million dollars. Ben-Ari emerged as one of the five winners of the SheEO…

Entrepreneurship

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What fighting in the woods for $500,000 taught me about supporting female entrepreneurship.
What fighting in the woods for $500,000 taught me about supporting female entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship

7 min read


Nov 22, 2016

Six months ago 500 women radically changed my business, and put one more crack in the glass ceiling

Six months ago I was one of five winners of the SheEO Radical Generosity Fund. You can read “What fighting in the woods for $500,000 taught me about supporting female entrepreneurship” to get the whole story, but the shorter version is that 500 women took a gamble on me and…

Entrepreneurship

7 min read

Six months ago 500 women radically changed my business, and put one more crack in the glass ceiling
Six months ago 500 women radically changed my business, and put one more crack in the glass ceiling
Entrepreneurship

7 min read

Ilana Ben-Ari

Ilana Ben-Ari

630 Followers

Toy designer turned social entrepreneur, founder of @21Toys and #EmpathyToy #FailureToy inventor — https://ilanabenari.com/

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