Participants of the first Cuba Entrepreneurial Exchange meet with representatives and fellows of Venture Hive in Miami. Photo by Tomas Bilbao. Tomas Bilbao is executive director of the nonprofit Cuba Study Group. Knight Foundation supports the group’s Cuba Entrepreneurial Exchange Program, which connects entrepreneurs in Cuba and Miami. On a sunny day this past summer, two entrepreneurs met in South Beach to talk about artisanal soaps. They exchanged stories about how they became interested in the soap-making business and discussed their favorite places to buy supplies and how to develop their favorite scents. What makes this seemingly routine meeting between entrepreneurs different is that Ricardo is a Cuban-American with an established soap-making business in Miami and Sandra is one of Cuba’s half a million nascent entrepreneurs and sells her soap out of a storefront in Old Havana.