Meet the Top 5 EO GSEA Finalists of 2016
The Top 5 EO GSEA finalists have just been announced from the Global Finals in Bangkok, Thailand. Learn more about the companies and student entrepreneurs who are leading this competition.
The Top 5 EO GSEA finalists have just been announced from the Global Finals in Bangkok, Thailand. Learn more about the companies and student entrepreneurs who are leading this competition.
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Ludwick Marishane won the EO GSEA Global Finals in 2011. Here is his TED Talk, “A Bath Without Water,” from 2012 in Johannesburg, along with a transcription.
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This article was written by EO Vancouver member, Calvin Johnson.
I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one. Our chapter president approached me and asked if I would be interested in creating a competition, with the catch that we’d never participated in GSEA before. I’d say, “Be careful what you wish for,” but this turned out to be an experience unlike anything else I’ve done in my career.
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Jacob Radloff is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Munich-based oekom research AG, a leading rating agency that has established environmental sustainability reporting in the global financial markets. Ashoka’s Felix Oldenburg caught up with Jacob recently to hear more about starting early, the challenges of growth and what it takes to keep innovating.
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This entrepreneur’s story is movie material: Quit your job, hop on a plane to Mongolia, drive 20 hours out in the desert with some goat herders (who you just met at dinner two days ago), and then get stuck out in the Gobi desert for a month.
That was the beginning of Naadam, a clothing brand arguing for supply chain innovations.
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This month, we’ll be engaging in an open dialogue that asks the question, “What does social entrepreneurship look like within our global EO community and beyond?” Many of our members already have dedicated their personal and professional lives to social entrepreneurship, filling social and environmental needs around the world.
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By Karen Summerson, Writer/Editor at the Entrepreneurs’ Organization
I was fortunate enough to attend The Aspen Institute Forum on Women and Girls: Conversations Across Generations last week with EO DC member leader Marsha Ralls. On the heels of EO’s successful #WOMENtrepreneurs campaign and a published conversation with Associations Now, this opportunity seemed to be a timely continuation of the larger conversation surrounding women’s role in contemporary economics.
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Tags: #EOeconomy 31 Days of #WOMENtrepreneurship dialogue global economy intersectionality Karen Summerson marsha ralls the aspen institute
As the owner of a commercial art gallery for more than 24 years, I never imagined that people would buy art online, or that I would be selling to them without any prior relationship or connection. I had seen the importance of developing mutual trust and respect with clients, and per tradition, I would nurture these working relationships over a period of years. However, I was proven wrong; while I have continued to spark and build new connections around the world as an art consultant, I’ve done so remotely with the ability to work anywhere. I’ve heard companies refer to someone like me as a “nomad,” and I know many entrepreneurs who fit this class of professionals.
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This article was written by Matt Leedham, EO’s Vice President of the Americas, for the March 2016 issue of Octane magazine.
Recently, I made a trip to Guatemala to visit with Regional Director, Enrique “Kikoy” Montano, where we discussed EO’s growing presence in Latin America. While there, I spent a Saturday volunteering with an organization called Believe Guatemala, which empowers Guatemala City’s poor through education. That day, I helped deliver water filters to families desperate for clean water. Only after returning home did I discover that the filters are created by EO Guatemala’s Philip Wilson. Kikoy was quick to provide an introduction, and we connected a few weeks later for this interview.
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This article was written for the March 2016 issue of Octane magazine.
Sometimes all it takes is a little spark to start a revolution. Just ask Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison, EO Johannesburg members who are redefining the educational ecosystem in South Africa. In this special feature, the co-founders of SPARK Schools discuss the state of education in their home country, the far-reaching value of their hybrid learning model and how, through entrepreneurship, they’re changing lives, one student at a time.
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Tags: #EOeconomy 31 Days of #WOMENtrepreneurship education entrepreneurs eo johannesburg octane magazine Ryan Harrison south africa SPARK Schools Stacey Brewer