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Micha Weinblatt  

Entreprenuer , Crooked Monkey T-shirts

Micha Weinblatt is an entrepreneur from Washington DC. He graduated Magana Cum Laude with a Government and Politics degree from the University of Maryland in 2005, where he launched Crooked Monkey T-shirts. The brand has since been carried by over 500 retailers including Urban Outfitters, Nordstrom, and Pac Sun, has been worn by celebrities Ryan Seacrest and Miley Cyrus. In 2011 he was recognized for his efforts by CNN Money, which named him one of the top 10 entrepreneurs to watch. Along the way he was named one of the Washington Business Journal's 40 under 40, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and was selected to be a member of the Sandbox Community. After running Crooked Monkey for 7 years, in June of 2012, he got together with two co-founders to launch Betterific, the digital suggestion box that crowdsources innovation, out of the DreamIt Ventures accelerator. In January of 2013 TheNextWeb named Betterific one of the top 13 east coast startups to watch in 2013. Micha is very involved in the Washington DC community, and specifically in the Jewish community. He has served as an adviser to many Jewish organizations and was recently honored with an appointment to the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, where he will be the youngest board member to serve. He is also very involved in the DC public library system, where he spearheaded the DC Global Shaper hub initiative to bring free-co working spaces for entrepreneurs.

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