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Top 3 Startup Winner: Digs

The Startup Magazine

We have sent hundreds of volunteers to help communities in need, all the way from Haiti to Nepal. But this allowed us to learn more about our users and real estate customers. In 2013, Chad and I founded Build Abroad, a nonprofit organization that builds homes in developing countries. How is Digs impacting the world/your clients? .

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Are You Using This Six-Letter Word?

Rembrandt Communications

Times are tough right now, and the recent earthquake in Haiti really makes us stop and think about our blessings. With this in mind, have you thanked your customers, partners, associates, and media contacts lately? If not, here are three simple ways to use this six-letter word to improve your relationships – and your business: [.].

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Two Amazing Women Setting Out on Their Startup Journey

Both Sides of the Table

Talking about how to inspire moms to get their children engaged with iPads and physical activity sets customized for their kids and based in part on their digital lives. She’s passionate about near-shore manufacturing in places like Haiti where we can do good and do well.

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Are You Using This Six-Letter Word?

Rembrandt Communications

Times are tough right now, and the recent earthquake in Haiti really makes us stop and think about our blessings. With this in mind, have you thanked your customers, partners, associates, and media contacts lately? If not, here are three simple ways to use this six-letter word to improve your relationships – and your business: [.].

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The Crazy Marketing Campaigns That Actually Worked

YoungUpstarts

Clamping hundreds of cars in the downtown area of Austin with fake cardboard clamps – ParkMe were subjecting potential customers to a rollercoaster of emotions. 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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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We would always customize our outfits and wear items you couldn’t find in the local mall. My parents came from Haiti to the United States and did not have in-depth knowledge of what was required to obtain financial freedom in this country. My girlfriend at the time, who is now my wife, fell in love by going to musical festivals.

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Looking to the use cases of big data

The Equity Kicker

So far Next Big Sound has ‘two undisclosed major record labels’ as customers for this service, making it too early to tell. 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. Will this idea work? Virtual assistants.

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