Rebeca Hwang
YouNoodle
YouNoodle
Rebeca Hwang focuses on network-building to connect entrepreneurs and innovators around the world through YouNoodle's online platforms and products. Formally trained as a chemical, civil and environmental engineer at MIT and Cambridge, Hwang has been awarded for her work in the sciences and is the holder of multiple patents.
She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford, focusing on the role of social network structures on the performance of water cooperatives.
Related Links: http://www.younoodle.com/
Last Updated: Mon, Apr 2, 2012
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| Category | Title | Author/Speaker | Organization | Length | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podcast | Small Acts and Big Impacts | Rebeca Hwang · Elizabeth Samara-Rubio | YouNoodle, StorWatts | 56:41 | 05/2012 |
| Video | Small Acts and Big Impacts [Entire Talk] | Rebeca Hwang · Elizabeth Samara-Rubio | YouNoodle, StorWatts | 55:58 | 05/2012 |
| Video | Social Entrepreneurs and Self-Actualization | Rebeca Hwang | YouNoodle, StorWatts | 00:40 | 05/2012 |
| Video | You Don't Know Everything | Rebeca Hwang | YouNoodle, StorWatts | 03:44 | 05/2012 |
| Video | Making Good Decisions | Rebeca Hwang · Elizabeth Samara-Rubio | YouNoodle, StorWatts | 02:19 | 05/2012 |
| Video | How Do You Assess Talent? | Rebeca Hwang · Elizabeth Samara-Rubio | YouNoodle, StorWatts | 02:12 | 05/2012 |
This special lecture offers insights from two leaders creating impact through entrepreneurship. Founder Elizabeth Samara-Rubio explains how her company, StorWatts, aims to provide distributed energy storage to millions around the world, while YouNoodle entrepreneur Rebeca Hwang tells stories of her early field experiences which formed her passion for social entrepreneurship.
This special lecture offers insights from two leaders creating impact through entrepreneurship. Founder Elizabeth Samara-Rubio explains how her company, StorWatts, aims to provide distributed energy storage to millions around the world, while YouNoodle entrepreneur Rebeca Hwang tells stories of her early field experiences which formed her passion for social entrepreneurship.
Based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, entrepreneur Rebeca Hwang shares why she believes social entrepreneurs are aiming to achieve self-actualization by helping others gain basic happiness through meeting their basic survival needs.
Entrepreneur Rebeca Hwang talks about her experiences at MIT, where she built products in the lab and then deployed them in the field to solve real world problems. Hwang also discusses why technologists don't know everything, and why spending time in the field is necessary to appreciate all the institutional factors in play.
Entrepreneurs Elizabeth Samara-Rubio and Rebeca Hwang each describe their considerations when making decisions. For Samara-Rubio this means knowing what you want and acting with purpose; for Hwang, it's about either narrowing or enlarging your number of possible opportunities.
Elizabeth Samara-Rubio and Rebeca Hwang, the founders of StorWatts and YouNoodle, respectively, share what they look for when assessing talent or prospective business partners. Having the ability to recover from adversity and possessing actual operating experience are particularly appealing characteristics to Samara-Rubio, while Hwang seeks partners with a value system that aligns with her own, and who possess complementary skill sets and a healthy obsession.