Fellows mentioned in this story: Meli James
From Hawai‘i Business Magazine:
The islands have long exported talent – young entrepreneurs who leave for San Francisco, New York or Seattle in search of capital, mentorship and scale. Meli James and Brittany Heyd decided to reverse that trend.
In founding Mana Up, they weren’t just building an accelerator. They were making an argument: that world-class brands could be born here, grown here and sent out to the world from here.
About a decade later, that argument is winning.
Now entering its 11th cohort, Mana Up received more than 250 applications this year — a record — drawn from across the islands by a program that has quietly become one of the most consequential economic engines in the state. Hawaii Business Magazine has the exclusive on the founders who made the cut.
Continue reading at HawaiiBusiness.com.
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