Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2016

I tell people I’m interviewing that we’re a place where you can make a global difference by impacting the world’s most significant issues: energy, water, war, poverty. For me, the best part of running a business, especially a global one, is the sheer breadth of activities and decisions that make up any given day or week.

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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. Austin’s opportunity to change America’s entrepreneurial narrative was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 2, 2017

Christy doing work in Haiti Hunter Walk: Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit focused on supporting maternal health. There will always be those who want to hijack the conversation and put the value of individual lives at odds with one another when in fact, you cannot have one without the other. Has the situation in the US gotten better?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 17, 2015

Vendedy is the first mobile network connecting global travelers to street vendors of the developing world. Launched from Haiti and scaled across Latin America- the social enterprise aims to digitize the $10trillion street vending industry and leverage tourism to alleviate 2 billion people out of poverty.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

30 – About Conversations. I also thought Simon Says was a good tie-in with social media since social media is about conversations. GMR stands for “Global Marketing Resources.” After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I went to Haiti as part of a relief team. Image Credit: Rebecca Simon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This conversation was recorded before the announcement of Ron's new position in the incoming Biden administration. In our conversation, I ask Ron point blank if the outcome we are living through was inevitable, or could we have avoided this catastrophe? Here's my conversation with Ron Klain. You're not going to like his answer.

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