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

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 [...]

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Jonathan Ortmans on Entrepreneurship

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 [...]

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E-Week at Stanford

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 [...]

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