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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Biggest Accomplishment in 2016

Hearpreneur

I landed my first international travel consulting gig with Blue Marble Dreams and traveled to Haiti to open an ice cream shop. I was featured as an entrepreneur to follow on Oxygen Network and my segment was aired nationwide. I won Beat Bobby Flay on Food Network, one of their youngest contestants ever (I was 25).

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Two Amazing Women Setting Out on Their Startup Journey

Both Sides of the Table

And still able to make it out to LA networking events. She’s passionate about near-shore manufacturing in places like Haiti where we can do good and do well. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. Always meeting her product ship dates. Getting involved with political events and fund raisers.

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For Example! My EG Conference Experience

The Startup Magazine

Hawley’s work has been featured in media outlets such as National Geographic , Time , and the New York Times , as well as on numerous television networks. She reflected on a series of evocative photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti and its aftermath, the plight of the Kosovo refugees, and other humanitarian disasters.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

The agenda: * Quick introductions over breakfast * Three brief demos, including one from Hot Potato * Casual networking session, with free Wi-Fi on offer for those who want to stick around and work in a community environment. 10AM through the weekend Crisis Camp Haiti NYC-New York technologists helping the Haiti relief effort.

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Austin’s opportunity to change America’s entrepreneurial narrative

Austin Startup

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. Yet I’m excited about the intentional ways that Austin is trying to solve for the problem. 0 for 3 When I think about the problem of diversity in entrepreneurship, I like to tell the story of Jerry Nemorin.

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From Haitian Roots to a Silicon Valley Address: How Bianca St.Louis Is Building Her Rep & a Career in Tech

Hunter Walker

Additionally all the “successful examples” in my family network were nurses so to my parents that was what success looked like. My parents were immigrants from Haiti who didn’t grow up with access to computers in their homes and consistent electricity so there was only so much they could share with me about tech.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Vendedy is the first mobile network connecting global travelers to street vendors of the developing world. Products purchased locally on the network are dropped off at a tourists hotel.

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