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 Entrepreneurship Week. For local [...]

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 some of the audience when he [...]

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 US and world economy, [...]