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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. I was featured as an entrepreneur to follow on Oxygen Network and my segment was aired nationwide. Image Credit: Scott Phillips.

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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. 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. Leaves to work in Corp Dev at IAC. She had previously acquired UrbanSpoon.

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

Hearpreneur

We started as a way to help us monetize our networks since we found ourselves making great introductions to people and we would find in our inbox, “hey thanks for the introduction to so and so, they wrote me a check for a million dollars! After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I went to Haiti as part of a relief team.

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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.