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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. Thanks to Joshua Wilson, WorthPointe Wealth Management ! #11

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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. Tells me she wants to do operational stuff so she joins a small team of people running City Search. She was a young mom back then.

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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. From time management challenges to making sure prices are right to dealing with customers, there is always something different going on and with that comes different challenges.

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

Hearpreneur

Maclendon is a multi-family office wealth management practice. We manage money for entrepreneurially minded families. Office, Maclendon Wealth Management ! #9 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. Thanks to Roger Wu, Cooperatize ! #8

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

Startup Lessons Learned

He was the White House Ebola Response Coordinator in 2014 and 2015, when the Obama administration set up a pandemic prevention office and created a playbook for managing future outbreaks. The two have worked together for the last 30 years, and Ron also served as Biden's chief of staff during the Obama administration.