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Two Amazing Women Setting Out on Their Startup Journey

Both Sides of the Table

She learns how to ship product, how to deal with merchants, how to hire product managers. She’s passionate about near-shore manufacturing in places like Haiti where we can do good and do well. Leaves to work in Corp Dev at IAC. Tells me she wants to do operational stuff so she joins a small team of people running City Search.

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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

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. As it relates to my desire to learn more technical skills – engineers are expensive and I don’t have the funds to hire someone to build (yet).

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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Biggest Accomplishment in 2016

Hearpreneur

I’ve now grown it to a 6-figure business and made my first hire. I landed my first international travel consulting gig with Blue Marble Dreams and traveled to Haiti to open an ice cream shop. 3 – Doubled Our Team, Hired & Retained Talent. Image Credit: Scott Phillips. 2016 was a fantastic year for Rise Art.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

We were bootstrapping the company’s funding, so we could not afford to hire a firm to help us come up with a company name. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I went to Haiti as part of a relief team. He hired my new firm to get more media attention. I have gone on from there and expanded over the last 20 years.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share What Their Favorite Part of Running a Business Is

Hearpreneur

Our technology can and is changing the world by making vehicles cleaner, providing solutions in Haiti for air conditioning, and protecting US military in combat. These are more than just platitudes, this is what we work on daily.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

One last thing on this point, when President Obama hired me to be the Ebola Response Coordinator, I obviously knew very little about diseases and response and these kinds of things. Bricks-and-mortar retail are going down, not up. Because consumers don't feel safe. I think that's the economic flaw in the president's thinking.