YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2015

One of the big challenges for many new start-ups is separating themselves from the competition and spreading awareness of the brand/product/service. Using biodegradable bubble wrap, the company’s PR company then donated it all to Oxfam to ship goods to Haiti after the country suffered the devastating 2010 earthquake.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

Be sure to bring plenty of business cards and samples or your work, promotional literature and/or products as appropriate. 10AM through the weekend Crisis Camp Haiti NYC-New York technologists helping the Haiti relief effort. On the invite list, as always, are the top Advertising, Music, Media & Technology professionals.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 12, 2012

Tracking disease epidemics – GigaOM tracks the story of how Twitter tracked a recent outbreak of cholera in Haiti and how that can be of use to aid agencies. Ultimately I see this as a subset of the 3. Virtual assistants. There are numerous examples now of social media being used to good effect in crisis situations which is great.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 2, 2016

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. I can go on for hours about these two products and the opportunity. Lately my words have been reaching wider audiences without context.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 17, 2015

Products purchased locally on the network are dropped off at a tourists hotel. 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. We then use the thesaurus to add to the list.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2013

What’s missing for the lumberjack is the realization that his saw needs to be sharpened in order to keep up his level of productivity. Help Haiti recover. For businesspeople, working harder and producing less is a common pitfall. Yet, given how he thinks, there would be no time for sharpening because he is so driven to produce.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2013

Shortly after starting Waybu, Michael teamed up with the inventor of a solar water cleaning device called the AquaPak in order to help people in need of clean water in Haiti. Backers of their campaign get a pair of bamboo sunglasses and other exclusive rewards at special pre-order pricing.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

” And therefore, we are Cooperatize.com which is ProductIZE + COOPERATion = Cooperatize! Since that wasn’t going so well we switched tactics and asked ourselves: “what is our product? I had all these products with SA on the packaging and needed to come up with a name. I owe you a coffee!”

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 20, 2011

Launched a series of products. It’s a biography of Dr.Paul Farmer , one of the most inspiring people I’ve heard of, and whose non-profit ‘Partners In Health’ is touching the lives of thousands of downtrodden people in desperately poor countries like Haiti and parts of Africa. My passionate purpose.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

He also worked in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica and helped start a national health program in Haiti. ” I always had this idea that maybe I could have a hand in the production as well and… the person I fell in love with also shared that dream. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

How is it not the most obvious thing in the world that we need to have a mass effort to retool, re-skill, retrain, insource production of essential items? And, although it's masks and gowns right this minute, the production of melt-blown polypropylene, in the future we'll need to be manufacturing new items. I'm Eric Ries.

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