Powerpoint explores great ideas for entrepreneurs from Global Entrepreneurship week.

1. Exploring Global
Entrepreneurship Week
By Ryan Stevenson
November 22, 2015

2. Table of Contents
• Slides 1-2 Title and Introduction
• Slides 3-5 Overview of Entrepreneurship Week
• Slides 6-9 Interesting Articles on GEW website
• Slides 10-11 Companies of Interest
• Slides 12-14 GEW Webinar
• Slides 15-17 GEW Rec. to Entrepreneurs

3. Overview of Global Entrepreneurship
Week
• One week out of the year, in November,
Global Entrepreneurship week tries to inspire
people across the globe to get involved in
activities to help them explore themselves as
self starters or innovators.

4. Overview of Global Entrepreneurship
Week
• Global Entrepreneurship Week is a celebration for
innovators and job creators in 160 countries that
support Global Entrepreneurship
• These innovators and creators launch new ideas,
bring economic growth, and expand human
welfare around the world

5. Overview of Global Entrepreneurship
Week
• The Website has many great stories from the past
year of entrepreneurs going out into the world to
spread information about their innovations
• Their innovations are putting people to work,
which is important in developing countries, and
even in countries like the United States

6. Interesting Articles on GEW
Website
• Start-Up Experience Turns Students into High-
Impact Entrepreneurs
• http://wearegen.co/gew/startup-experience-
turns-students-high-impact-entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurship is a gaining popularity among
college students and the need for high quality
entrepreneurship education is rising

7. Interesting Articles on GEW
Website
• Great Article that explains how students are
gaining the entrepreneurial mindset and applying
it to the field of work which they desire
• The article explains how the entrepreneurial
mindset is key in all aspects of life, at all levels of
society, and all places around the world

8. Interesting Articles on GEW
Website
– VC4Africa Conducting Venture Finance Research on
Africa During GEW
• http://wearegen.co/global
– Very important test held by VC4Africa and The Global
Entrepreneurship Network to annual information on
African Venture Performance
– Reliable Data in early-stage, high growth ventures in
Africa are very scarce

9. Interesting Articles on GEW
Website
• Global Entrepreneurship Network and VC4Africa are trying
change the worlds perception of business in Africa
• The research in the survey allows them to see growth, job
creation, and revenue/profit generation
• The data will be compared with all the other 160 countries
to show entrepreneurs that Africa is not a bad place to do
business.

10. Companies of Interest from GEW
Website
• GEW’s website has tons of great companies to get involved
with or to help support them while they are growing
• One that caught my eye was the company Astia
– http://astia.org/
• Astia is a community of experts committed to propelling
woman’s full participation as entrepreneurs and leaders in
high-growth business

11. Companies of Interest from GEW
Website
• Asita has over 5,000 investors, industry experts,
and serial entrepreneurs that are all lead by
women
• This is important because the loss of women in
global entrepreneurship is down and there needs
to be motivation for them to get back into the
business
• Asita does just that! Encouraging women to get
out there and get back into the global
entrepreneurial world

12. GEW Webinar
• Attended a GEW webinar on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
at 9:00am
• Speaker Bruce Huang talks about his life journey and how
he became such a successful entrepreneur at the age of 14
• He started up his own door-to-door advertisement
distribution service at age of 14 to help save money for
college

13. GEW Webinar
• The webinar went into depth on how location is
extremely important when starting up a business
• He talked about false reality “if you build it, they will
come” he said that is not always true, that’s why
location is so important
• How do entrepreneurs know where this location is?

14. GEW Webinar
• Entrepreneurs use analytical studies where find out the best
places to put a new business
• Analytical studies also show entrepreneurs who is important
to do business with and who their consumers are going to be
• The webinar really showed me how entrepreneurs can
leverage data to help them make the right start up decisions
• How those early decisions determine whether you are
successful or not as an entrepreneur

15. GEW Recommendations
• I highly recommend all entrepreneurs to check
out the GEW website in depth
• Attend the webinar like I did, Bruce Huang had
some very interesting points that will help young
entrepreneurs know when to start a company,
where to do so, and who to do business with

16. GEW Recommendations
• GEW website also lets entrepreneurs look in depth at
organizations around the world, and see how they
conduct their business, and who they do it with
• It gives you tons of ideas as a young entrepreneur,
like myself, to get out there and start innovating and
making the world a better place

17. GEW Recommendations
• All in all, I highly recommend you take a look
at the GEW website, it will give you tons of
examples of business, young entrepreneurs,
successful entrepreneurs, and how to conduct
the right business in the right places.
• Thank you for looking at my slide show!