Jan 11, 2012
From April to October, more than 2,000 students from 42 countries competed in the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), a global competition for high school, undergraduate and graduate students who own and operate businesses while attending college or university. An Entrepreneurs’...
Jan 04, 2012
All of us at GEW Global are so proud of all the organizers behind Startup Weekend. As several blog posts on this site have described, GEW 2011 was an excellent year for Startup Weekend’s around the world. Beyond all the great energy and startups coming out of this effort, its scale also allows us...
Dec 16, 2011
It seemed fitting that the first speaker at the first-ever Global Entrepreneurship Day in Haiti was Mathias Pierre, who rose from the ranks of the poor to launch a successful information technology business. “Entrepreneurship is the antidote to poverty,” Pierre said in an introductory speech to the...
Dec 16, 2011
On November 24, 2011 PDT organized the first ever event for the youth of Afghanistan for Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). It was the Afghan Entrepreneurship and Business Matchmaking Forum.
Dec 15, 2011
Just hours before The Right Honourable John Key was officially sworn in to his second term in office as Prime Minister of New Zealand today, Mr Key took time out to meet with Global Entrepreneurship Week New Zealand Chair Rob Acton and GEW Your Big Year challenger Toby Jordan to discuss Global...
Dec 07, 2011
At the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden announced a partnership that would move the future Summits to the opening day of Global Entrepreneurship Week starting next November.
Dec 06, 2011
As we close Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011 and Startup Weekend’s Global Startup Battle, I would like to take a moment to reflect on some lessons in leadership that emerged during the past 2 weeks.
Dec 06, 2011
Zhu Fushun, who sells organic green-shelled eggs, came out on top of the China’s Got Entrepreneurship Talent Awards. The competition began with nearly 600 students from across the country. Zhu wins RMB 50,000 in cash and the opportunities to sit face-to-face with VCs and angels.
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 notifying them of any status changes...
Nov 23, 2011
Startup Weekend is hosting an online Global Startup Battle designed to foster friendly competition and community awareness among the global Startup Weekend community. Forty-eight winning teams from Startup Weekend events that took place Nov. 11-14, 2011 and Nov. 18-20, 2011, have the chance to...
