GEW/USA Partner News: The StartUp Cup Kicks Off This Week
Posted by Chelsea Grieco @C_Grieco
Apr 17, 2013
As planning for GEW 2013 moves into full swing for our partners, we want to again highlight organizations within the GEW network as they continue to further their entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Global Entrepreneurship Week: Celebrating Spanish-Speaking Female Entrepreneurs Across the Globe
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Nov 20, 2012
Women across the globe had opportunities to network with other entrepreneurs in their own language in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Women 2.0 conducted 17 Founder Friday events around the world last week during GEW—including six in Spanish-speaking countries. The...
US Startup Comes Up Short in Creative Business Cup
Posted by Mark Marich
Nov 15, 2012
We Want Cinema, a startup from the Netherlands that provides an online platform that allows movie-goers to decide what films are show in the theater, took top honors at the Creative Business Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark. A featured activity of Global Entrepreneurship Week, th...
College Inventors from UCSD, Johns Hopkins Take Top Prizes
Posted by Chelsea Grieco @C_Grieco
Nov 13, 2012
College inventors with a novel delivery therapy for treating cancer and a way to facilitate suturing in abdominal surgery have taken the top prizes at the Collegiate Inventors Competition during Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Startup Open Recognizes 50 Promising New Startups
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Oct 17, 2012
In the search to find some of the best and brightest new startups around the world, Global Entrepreneurship Week recently announced the “GEW 50” —a list of the 50 most innovative new companies competing in the Startup Open, a competition that recognizes startups with high-g...
Finalists Announced for Collegiate Inventors Competition
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Oct 15, 2012
The organizers behind the Collegiate Inventors Competition recently announced the finalists who will compete against one another during Global Entrepreneurship Week. The finalists--individuals or teams--in Graduate and Undergraduate Divisions receive an all-expenses paid trip to ...
Startup Open Deadline 10 Days Away
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Sep 05, 2012
Being competitive is the top priority for any startup company, but Global Entrepreneurship Week’s Startup Open competition puts it on the global scale. In this competition, however, startups aren’t competing for customers. They are competing for prizes that will help their...
Get in the Ring: The Investment Battle
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Aug 28, 2012
Last year, a young German entrepreneur went toe-to-toe with a panel of major investors in the Netherlands and emerged victorious during Global Entrepreneurship Week. This year, a new crop of fighters look to take on the investors--and each other.
A Global Search for Breakthrough Cleantech Ideas
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Aug 15, 2012
The Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition is back as a featured activity for GEW 2012 and looking for the best clean technology ideas from around the world. National winners will compete in during the Global Forum in Silicon Valley where they will pitch their idea to a cro...
Supporting Sub-Saharan Startups
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
Jun 11, 2012
As Global Entrepreneurship Week continues to take root in nearly 130 countries around the world, GEW president Jonathan Ortmans takes a look at efforts in those countries to strengthen their startup culture—attempting to replicate and build on the great American spirit of entre...
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