GEW Leaders from 135 Nations Start Gathering in Rio
Posted by manager
Mar 08, 2013
Thousands of people from 135 countries have already started to arrive in Rio de Janeiro for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) and festival in Rio de Janeiro.
Gulf States Focus on New Starts
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Dec 17, 2012
As announced by Vice President Joe Biden in Istanbul, under an agreement with the State Department, GEW Global worked closely this year with White House staff and the staff of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Prime Minister of the UAE in hosting a 2012 Gl
A World Awakened by Smiling Entrepreneurs
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans @jortmans
Nov 27, 2012
Everywhere you look in the media these days you see alleged signs of impending economic doom—from the ‘financial cliff’ threatening to punish United States policymakers if they can’t reach agreement soon to the Eurozone crisis with the Greek economy on the edge of collaps...
Closing GEW in Belgium
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans @jortmans
Nov 18, 2012
I am closing my Global Entrepreneurship Week tour in the home to several major European universities—Belgium. I was honored to deliver a talk for students at JADE’s Junior Enterprise Challenge 2012 Closing Ceremony in Louvain-la-Neuve.
A Bigger and Better GEW in London
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans @jortmans
Nov 17, 2012
With only one day to go on my GEW 2012 tour, I am in the UK which organized 3,240 events, up 29% from last year and where we engaged 276,747 people in the course of the week, up 41% on last year. YBI continues to do an impressive job here. As I waited in the airpo...
Slugging It Out in the Netherlands
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans @jortmans
Nov 16, 2012
In our work to elevate entrepreneurs in society, we often refer to them as “rock stars” in the startup world. Here in the Netherlands, the GEW team on the ground has taken it to a whole new level.
Denmark’s Leadership & the Outlook for Europe’s Startup Scene
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans @jortmans
Nov 15, 2012
A recent article in The Economist titled “Les miserables” discussed Europe’s “chronic failure to encourage ambitious entrepreneurs” and called its culture “deeply inhospitable to entrepreneurs.” While this has been historically the case in both the regulatory ...
Time Washes History Away in Romania
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans @jortmans
Nov 13, 2012
Today I have been in Bucharest, Romania where I had the pleasure of meeting with others on our Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Romania Board before delivering the keynote speech during their Innovation Challenge, an event to identify a one-year initiative to grow the entre...
GEW Kicks Off in Saudi Arabia with Inaugural Board Meeting
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans @jortmans
Nov 12, 2012
I am in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia today to kick-off Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)--under the patronage of the Ministry of Labor presented at the board by Dr. Abdulaziz I.
GEW/Germany Kicks Off in Düsseldorf
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans @jortmans
Nov 10, 2012
With the Euro economic crisis drawing so much attention to Germany, I decided to kick off my GEW Tour today in Frankfurt where I met with representatives of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and members of the RKW Competence Center, which is organizing
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