And the Winner of Global Startup Battle is...
Posted by GEW/USA staff
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...
We Are All Entrepreneurs
Posted by GEW/USA staff
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...
NFTE Announces Winners of World Series of Innovation
Posted by GEW/USA staff
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...
South African Senior Wins GSEA
Posted by GEW/USA staff
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...
Charlotte County (FL) Proclaims Global Entrepreneurship Week
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Nov 19, 2011
Thanks to the efforts of the Charlotte County Economic Development Office in Florida, the county has formally proclaimed November 14-20, 2011, as Global Entrepreneurship Week. The text of the proclamation is below: CHARLOTTE COUNTY FLORIDAPROCLAMATION...
EO Rings Closing Bell at NYSE Ahead of GSEA Finals
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Nov 18, 2011
Entrepreneurs' Organization visits the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week. In honor of the occasion, Kevin Langley, EO's Chairman of the Global Board of Directors, rings The Closing Bell.
Global Technology Leaders Back in Berkeley
Posted by GEW/USA staff
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...
Recap of Great Lakes Entrepreneurial Bash
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Nov 18, 2011
On November 17, 2011, business leaders and entrepreneurs from around the heartland of America attended the Great Lakes Entrepreneurial Bash, a featured event of the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurship Week. Inspired by the book, How They Did It: Billion...
Biofiltro of Chile Takes Top Spot in CleanTech Open Global Ideas Competition
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Nov 17, 2011
BioFiltro, a waste-water treatment system first developed at the University of Chile, edged out finalists from five other countries to win the Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition. Teams from 23 countries traveled to the Global Forum hoping for the grand prize...
Schramm on CNBC: New Firms Should Have 'No Taxes, No Regulations' for 3-4 Years
Posted by GEW/USA staff
Nov 17, 2011
Carl Schramm, the president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, says that the most important thing for the government to do for startups is to essentially ignore them and give them the time and space to flourish. In an interview during Global Entrepreneurship Week...
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