November 14-20 is Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)
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November 14-20 is Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)
Created by the Kauffman Foundation, participation in this event gives you a chance to meet experts, get help, and maybe even win a contest – see a few below.
If you haven’t checked out the Kauffman Foundation website, www.kauffman.org,
you should! The Kauffman Foundation is the world’s largest foundation dedicated to entrepreneurship.
Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off with start-up weekends in cities around the globe. The US dates and locations are:
November 11-13: November 18-20
Baton Rouge, LA Bloomington, IN
Champaign, IL Boulder, CO
Kansas City, MO Cambridge, MA
New Haven, CT Indianapolis, IN
Princeton, NJ Las Vegas, NV
Seattle, WA Lexington, KY
Orange County, CA
New York, NY
San Francisco, CA
For our clients and friends outside the US, dates and locations for other countries are:
November 11-13 November 18-20
Aarhus, Denmark Cairo, Egypt
Bucharest, Romania Calgary, Canada
Buenos Aires, Argentina Copenhagen, Denmark
Manama, Bahrain Geneva, Switzerland
Skopje, Macedonia Halifax, Canada
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Strasbourg, France
Toronto, Canada
Vancouver, Canada
Warsaw, Poland
The Gearhart Law patent firm is based in the US but we have clients worldwide. Visit us at www.gearhartlaw.com to see the range of languages our team is fluent in.
To learn more about GEW, visit their website at www.unleashingideas.org.
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Some of the GEW contests are:
Startup Open – see their website at www.startupopen.com .
Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition – see their website at www.cleantechopen.com – this one gives you a chance to win $100,000 in support and services.
Your Big Year – DEADLINE 9/1/11 – travel the world for a year! See their website at www.yourbigyear.com. Even if you miss the deadline, there’s other great info. waiting for you there.
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We hope you find this information useful, and whatever your endeavors, we wish you success!
Elizabeth Gearhart, Ph.D.
Patent Agent
Gearhart Law
