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1000 Stories Spotlight: Kenyan Immigrant Helps Families Live Their American Dream
Ati Okelo Williams started DC Home Buzz to help homebuyers understand the market and financial information to find the best homes for their families.
Elaine Wherry: Meebo– Joys Of Building Tech Products
With two friends, we spent two years building tech products and not launching them publicly because we didn’t think we could build a business around them.
The Best Things in Life Happen by Accident
It’s certainly true that a combination of events, decisions and moments of lightness and dark turn a person’s life into what it is.
1000 Stories Spotlight: Alexa Stone Building Sustainability for Everyone’s Good
Alexa Stone started ecoPreserve to help companies be more energy efficient and preserve the environment.
1000 Stories Spotlight: Shabnam Rezaei – Teaching Kids through Cartoons
Shebnam Rezaei started Big Bad Boo productions to provide kids from every part of the world with culturally rich cartoons that are both fun and educational.
Hillary Clinton: Women Are Not Victims, We Are Agents of Change
Watch Hillary Clinton give a rousing speech at the Women in the World Summit about the importance of fighting on for the rights of women and girls in the U.S. and around the world.
Mother’s Day Gift Guide 2013
Mother’s day is fast approaching and we looked through the women-owned businesses in our 1000 Stories campaign to come up with a list of products that can put a smile on a mom’s face.
1000 Stories Spotlight: Music Basti Saves Kids Through Songs
Faith Gonsalves grew up with the gift of music and decided to pass it on and use it to help at-risk children.
Sarabeth’s Pushing 70 with No Signs of Letting Up
Sarabeth Levine has added a new restaurant to her $40 million food empire and it all began with a family recipe for marmalade.
1,000 Stories: Carol’s Daughter Started Beauty Brand From Her Kitchen
Lisa Price started mixing fragrances in her kitchen and created a multi-million dollar skin and beauty empire.
Immigrant Makes Peace, Near and Far
In the coming months The Story Exchange will be joining the national conversation on immigration reform by telling the personal stories of immigrant entrepreneurs. Watch the first profile in our new series.
1000 Stories: Hollaback! Uses Smartphones to Combat Harassment
A young MAKER encourages women to shame harassers by uploading their photos on websites.
Joy Behar to Shark: “She’s a Woman, She Can Do It”
Co-host of The View tells Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban that entrepreneur can ‘have it all’
Entrepreneurs: Slow, Unreliable Web Hurting Business
Entrepreneurs confirm research about the gap in Internet access in low and middle-income countries.