Cofounder Haiti Startup 
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. The startups ranked most highly by investors and startup enthusiasts in terms of scalability and longevity received votes on how well they connected with investors.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 7, 2013
College student turned millionaire stories have been quite popular in the business and startup world but what about those college students who are starting something that could help millions? Founder Josh Weingart started WaterDrop Shop while enrolled at Illinois State University. Walk for good with WaterDrop Shop.
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Hearpreneur
DECEMBER 31, 2016
I landed my first international travel consulting gig with Blue Marble Dreams and traveled to Haiti to open an ice cream shop. I founded MehtaFor in 2012, and the company received two national bronze awards in 2015 for Startup of the Year. I am co founder of GreenPal which has been described as Uber for lawn care.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Jered Lawson , co-founder of Pie Ranch , a 14-acre farm on California’s San Mateo coast that is reconnecting people to their food. Chase Adam , founder of Watsi , is on a mission to provide healthcare for every person in the world. Farming is not like your high-tech startups. ….
Austin Startup
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. He went to college, got a job on Wall Street, and launched a startup, LendStreet to help people like his mom refinance their bad loans and get access to better ones. Like any entrepreneur, Jerry wanted to solve it.
Jeff Hilimire
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
I come into contact with startups all the time. Through speaking events (like this one I’m hosting next Monday night with Charles Brewer ), hanging out at the Atlanta Tech Village , advising/mentoring through Advice For Good , or just generally hanging out where startup folks hang out.
Jeff Hilimire
JUNE 29, 2015
I can’t tell you how excited I was when Brett Hagler , CEO and co-founder of New Story (funding life-changing houses for homeless families), told me that they were accepted into Y Combinator (YC). YC is THE premier startup accelerator program in the world, and very few startups make the cut to get into the program.
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