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Andrew McCubbins: An Entrepreneur Solving World Problems From Salt Lake City, Utah

YoungUpstarts

This is evident from his work in telemedicine where he has managed to make it convenient for people to access healthcare from the convenience of their home. Philanthropist Andrew McCubbins has developed his skills and has been directly involved in rescue missions in Haiti and Mexico. The organization he started, O.U.R

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I also developed tranwise.com a project management system especially for the translation project management, setup a telephone interpreting system and expanded the business with offices in Europe and the US. During those 18 years, our project managers gave birth to 16 babies without counting our translators.

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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. Now she was tasked with running it.

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This Week in NYC Innovation - February 22, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

After the panel stay for demos by cocktail experts and chefs, tastings by local producers, and cameos by some of the city's cult food vendors. The conference is free and open to the public.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

10AM through the weekend Crisis Camp Haiti NYC-New York technologists helping the Haiti relief effort. Saturday, January 30th.

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Looking to the use cases of big data

The Equity Kicker

GigaOM chose to highlight a datacentre management assistant technology called Autopilot from a German company called Arago. 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.

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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. Additionally all the “successful examples” in my family network were nurses so to my parents that was what success looked like.