Samantha KingstonAs part of a series looking into the under-discussed side of founding a company, Forbes speaks with the founder of Virtual Umbrella, Samantha Kingston, about building a business while going through grief. For Samantha Kingston, it turned out that two days was the amount of time it took for her life to be turned upside down. “I was 100% not ready for that.”What followed was an unwelcome life lesson in grieving while running a business: an odd cocktail of the surreal and the familiar. For example, while Kingston was meeting funeral directors in Scotland, her business partner Bertie Millis tried to create the space she needed. “I understand what you're going through or I don't understand what you're going through.

Source: Forbes April 15, 2019 18:33 UTC