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Joana Galvao is a design guru and co-founder of Gif Design Studios. Based in Porto, Portugal, and with a team of 10 designers and developers – which includes her husband – her design agency has done pretty awesomely. Starting as a designer at an agency in London, and earning a rather basic salary, Joana could barely make ends meet. She sought out means of having extra jobs as a designer – on the side – and that move landed her the first big opportunity to bag more clients through a Facebook group. Today, Joana runs an award-winning agency specializing in brand identities and conversion-obsessed design, at the tender age of 27. Early Kick-off, Challenges, and Breakthrough Joanna founded Gif Design Studios at age 22. She had only become independent and started dealing with freelance clients three months prior. She started hiring immediately, building up a team of 4 – consisting of two other designers. Things didn’t work out initially as the staff quit working at the agency no sooner than they had started workin