Jul 17, 2012
Global Entrepreneurship Week/USA starts off with a laugh this year at Southeast Missouri State University when The Second City performs on November 12 at the Bedell Performance Hall. The Second City is the legendary improv-based sketch comedy group that launched the careers of dozens of instantly...
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Jul 16, 2012
The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO) has been involved with GEW/USA since GEW’s inaugural year in 2008. As an organization focused on helping student entrepreneurs gain the opportunities and resources to inform, support and inspire entrepreneurial endeavors, CEO has benefited greatly...
National
Jul 16, 2012
The Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) has kicked off the 2012 competition year with a bang! The GSEA Nerve Eastern Regional competition was held on April 18 in Atlanta, GA in conjunction with the EO NERVE Eastern Regional Conference. Four students presented...
Jun 22, 2012
The past ten years have seen Nick Vilelle go from grad school at George Mason University, to West Africa with the Peace Corps, to Swaziland where he helped launch and grow the GEW campaign there and back to Washington, DC, where he is starting a new venture--a philanthropub.
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Jun 20, 2012
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Jun 18, 2012
The APEC Startup conference that just wrapped up in Seoul signaled stepped-up interest within the 21 APEC member nations in policies that promote new firm formation as ameans of “booting up” economies. Interestingly, the drive for this effort is being led not by the United States, but by South...
Jun 13, 2012
Four years ago, Ryan Pickett was among a handful of creative young entrepreneurs competing in The Race to BE as part of the first-ever Global Entrepreneurship Week. A finalist in the filmmaking portion of the competition in Los Angeles, Pickett didn’t take home the grand prize, but he wasn’t...
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 entrepreneurship. In this...
