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Global Entrepreneurship Week: Unleashing Ideas Around the World Nov. 17–23

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

In several recent years, the Kauffman Foundation has hosted Entrepreneurship Week USA, or E-Week. Well now it’s truly a global event with schools and organizations around the world holding activities to promote entrepreneurship. Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008 starts in just 4 days! Visit UnleashingIdeas.org to learn more and view the video below for more about Global [...]

5 Kickass Benefits of Entrepreneurial Learning

Friday, February 29, 2008

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John Hennessey is the president of Stanford University, U.S. News & World Report’s #4 university in the nation and voted one of America’s best colleges for entrepreneurs by Fortune Small Business. Hennessey is one academic who has an entrepreneurial legacy himself, as he transferred his important research in microprocessor technology to actual industry application by [...]

Carl Schramm on Entrepreneurship

Friday, January 4, 2008

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I’m still traveling through Spain for the holidays, but I have some useful goal-setting exercises on the way soon! In the meantime, here’s some interesting material to keep your appetite satiated. At the 2007 Entrepreneurship Week USA opening ceremonies at Stanford University in California, Carl Schramm (President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation) surprised [...]

Jonathan Ortmans on Entrepreneurship

Monday, August 6, 2007

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Jonathan Ortmans is the National Executive Director of EntrepreneurshipWeek USA, an annual challenge event launched by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the New York Times and Inc. magazine to engage students in hundreds of schools and universities around the globe to explore their potential as self-starters and entrepreneurs. Ortmans stresses the value of entrepreneurs to the [...]

E-Week at Stanford

Thursday, March 8, 2007

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Last week was EntrepreneurshipWeek USA across the nation and beyond, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the New York Times, and Inc Magazine. Over 350 participating universities host their own events to bring together the best entrepreneurial thinkers and leaders–events like Brown University’s 60-second Elevator Pitch competition, Purdue’s Idea-to-Product (I2P) competition, and the Idea [...]