Forbes Looks at Dorm Room Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship Programs

Found an interesting article on student entrepreneurs when researching Under Armour founder Kevin Plank. This article, by Archana Rajan, highlights some of the actions that various colleges and universities (including the Smith School at the University of Maryland — where Plank studied) are doing to support and encourage student entrepreneurs. While profiling Maryland Grad and [...]

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Obama Hosts Entrepreneurship Summit on Development in the Muslim World

President Obama is hosting a two day Presidential Summit with more than 250 business and social leaders from 50 countries, most with large or majority Muslim populations. The summit is the follow up to Obama’s Cairo speech last summer and looks to use entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship, as major tools in increasing development throughout the [...]

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The Global Entrepreneurship Index

Many things are interesting, but one of the most interesting is how people use creativity to become more innovative. I call this entrepreneurship. People in all countries are creative and want to make a better life for themselves and their families. How well are they doing? Over the past few years, my colleagues at the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor [...]

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Cool Video on Educating Entrepreneurs with Mark Ecko and Others

Really good video where entrepreneurs discuss how we can develop the next generation of entrepreneurs. Really nice to hear the thoughts of Leonard Brody, Mark Ecko, Don Moody, and John Petry– each succesful in the new venture space and each has been active in education reform in the U.S. (click image to view the panel [...]

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