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SERGE ELKINER of Yellow Pepper – Navigating the Miami Startup Ecosystem

Our City Thoughts Apr 14th, 2015 Entrepreneurship

Serge Elkiner Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Serge Elkiner is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of YellowPepper,an innovative company that provides mobile-banking and payment solutions across Latin America. Under Serge’s leadership, YellowPepper is revolutionizing the banking and payments industry by making mobile payments a reality. His unique vision is bearing fruit forging partnerships with major banks, financial institutions and business enterprises alike. Across the region,YellowPepper

THRIFTER Miami Startup Journey

Our City Thoughts Oct 20th, 2014 Entrepreneurship

OCT met up with Victor Gosa, this cool and genuinely hip guy is making waves across the inter-webs with thriftermia.com. His story to make it happen, is as rad as it comes and speaks to the entrepreneurial spirit blossoming in the magic city. Awesome photos by the great Michael Alexander and amazing creative directing by Hope Kauffman! OCT: How was Thrifter founded? It was founded

Miami Soup’s Carl Hildebrand

Our City Thoughts Sep 25th, 2014 Culture, Non-Profits

As founder and director of MIAMI SOUP, Carl Hildebrand secured funding from the Knight Foundation in order to award micro-grants for social innovation projects. Carl brought to Miami this unique international funding model which is a non-bureaucratic format for the implementation of change at the local level. Launched on May 1st, 2014 in Soya & Pomodoro’s historic Great Hall, the

Wynwood Maker Camp, Making kids into Miami Hackers.

Our City Thoughts Sep 15th, 2014 Blog, Education

Willie and Nelson, Co-Founders of Wynwood Maker Camp impacted the lives of over 60 students in Miami. Their goal to make these young people ages 8-16 life long hackers payed off and has left them with the desire to continue their journey of ED innovation. They have inspired us with their with their badass selves – we think they will

Loris Malek, building a video game company in Miami

Our City Thoughts Sep 4th, 2014 Entrepreneurship

Loris Malek is an explorer of unfamiliar territory. In the 1990’s, he decided to pursue a career in video games at a time when the industry was ill defined. In the 2000’s he passed on school in order to learn hands-on from the best designers in the world. And today, Malek and his outfit Moon Spider Studio, is building a

Grasp Learning Co-Founders, Gary & Valerie Berman

Our City Thoughts Aug 25th, 2014 Blog, Education, Entrepreneurship

Gary and Valerie Berman are the co-founders of Grasp Learning, a pioneering after school program that provides academic support and enrichment to children with hands on tutoring and tech. Our City Thoughts: Why did you create in Miami? Gary We’ve been in the Miami community for almost 40 years, and we’re seeing that Miami is just at the precipice of something

Ebonie Mukasa Miami Social Entrepreneur

Our City Thoughts Aug 12th, 2014 Culture, Entrepreneurship

Ebonie Mukasa – The Challenges and Triumphs of Being a Miami Social Entrepreneur Words & Images: Ilana Berman Social entrepreneurs are the new philanthropists. They are individuals who, through innovative business practices, find solutions to the problems that vex our communities, states, and countries. Founder of CLOAK INC, Ebonie Mukasa, is a social entrepreneur committed to putting the mission before the

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