Jan 11, 2012
From April to October, more than 2,000 students from 42 countries competed in the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), a global competition for high school, undergraduate and graduate students who own and operate businesses while attending college or university. An Entrepreneurs’...
Jan 04, 2012
All of us at GEW Global are so proud of all the organizers behind Startup Weekend. As several blog posts on this site have described, GEW 2011 was an excellent year for Startup Weekend’s around the world. Beyond all the great energy and startups coming out of this effort, its scale also allows us...
Dec 07, 2011
At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden announced a partnership that would move the future Summits to the opening day of Global Entrepreneurship Week starting next November.
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Dec 06, 2011
As we close Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011 and Startup Weekend’s Global Startup Battle, I would like to take a moment to reflect on some lessons in leadership that emerged during the past 2 weeks.
Nov 29, 2011
Startup Weekend Hong Kong team Awesome Ship! Congratulations! According to the Hong Kong Startup Weekend blog, Awesome Ship helps “improve their customers’ satisfaction by actively tracking their packages, no matter which courier service is being used, and notifying them of any status changes...
Nov 22, 2011
Our nation’s capital kicked off Global Entrepreneurship Week on Monday with the sound of a gong rung by student entrepreneurs at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. The event was the formal start to D.C. Entrepreneurship Week.
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Nov 22, 2011
The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), an international non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring young people from low-income communities to stay in school and to recognize business opportunities, announced the winners of the 2011 World Series of Innovation, presented by Microsoft...
Nov 20, 2011
Ludwick Marishane, founder of Headboy Industries and senior at the University of Cape Town in South Africa came out on top of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. In a competition that began with nearly 2,000 students from 42 countries, Marishane will share in the half million dollar prize...
Nov 18, 2011
Since 2008, the University of California-Berkeley College of Engineering has held its Global Technology Leaders conference as a part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. This year is no different. As in years past, the event is being webcast live on the GEW/USA website, thanks to the College of...
