Overheard at GEC
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Mar 30, 2010
There was so much going on at the GEC it was hard to catch it all. Check out some of the highlights overheard by the GEW Global Staff:
Idea unleashed during GEW: Open hardware
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Mar 30, 2010
The power of Global Entrepreneurship Week is its ability to bring people together—to expand their networks, and in turn, expand their ideas.
Texas inspires high school students with business plans
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Feb 09, 2010
For Beverley Lawson, a high school entrepreneurship teacher in Texas, Global Entrepreneurship Week was an opportunity for her students to think outside of the classroom.
Marie Claire readers get advice from Mentoring Madness
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Jan 27, 2010
Advice from Mentoring Madness, sponsored by NYSE Euronext, is still resonating -- even two months after the event. And the mentions are popping up in some unexpected places -- everything from Wall Street Journal, to Black Enterprise magazine to...
Arizona State University starts up their Week with drinks, coffee and Twitter
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Jan 27, 2010
For Sara Christensen, Global Entrepreneurship Week was a chance to teach her students at Arizona State University the value of networking. “Making those connections with other students and entrepreneurs and utilizing the resources available by meeting other people...
Northern Iowa promotes sustainability through entrepreneurship, draws in hundreds
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Jan 27, 2010
Being an entrepreneur doesn’t require creating a new product – sometimes it can simply mean finding a new purpose for an old good. At Garbage Goes Green, 20 people did just this, turning found items (some in trash cans) into a variety of new products and art...
NASSP signs on as a National Partner for GEW2010
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Jan 21, 2010
The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) has signed on as a National Partner for Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010.
Watch videos from inspiring entrepreneurs featured in D.C. during the Week
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Jan 20, 2010
One inspiring event during the Week featured videos from entrepreneurs around the world, who shared personal stories of how to receive funding and enter new markets, as well as the impact they have had on their local and national economy and the support they...
GEW shows strong presence in listing of top entrepreneurship programs
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Jan 20, 2010
Universities involved with GEW dominate Entrepreneur magazine's most recent listing of top university entrepnreuership programs in the U.S. Out of the top 25 undergraduate programs more than half are GEW Partners, as are two-thirds of the graduate programs listed.
Cleantech Open Ideas Competition winner already working to expand company
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Jan 15, 2010
After watching pitch videos from seven finalists, selected from an initial pool of more than 1,000 submissions, audience members at the Cleantech Open Awards Gala in California grabbed their mobile phones and voted. The winner, by a large margin, was Replenish...
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