Global Entrepreneurship Week at UNC-Chapel Hill got off to a rousing start with Monday night’s “How Entrepreneurship can Change the World” event. The night began with an opening address from UNC’s Judith Cone, followed by the week’s first keynote address, from Defy Ventures founder Catherine Hoke. Through her work with Defy...
Read MoreGlobal Entrepeneurship Week returns to Chapel Hill this week, with six days of major speakers and panel discussions, workshops and office hours for local ventures, and the beginning of the year-long Carolina Challenge business competition. “A Worldwide Celebration” An initiative launched by Kauffman Foundation in 2007, Global Entrepreneurship Week has grown a worldwide presence with 160 countries and more than seven million people participating in GEW events since its inception. GEW at UNC is traditionally one of the biggest events on the university’s entrepreneurship and innovation calendar. Organized by a steering committee made up of UNC students,...
Read MoreJust two blocks off the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, Launch Chapel Hill serves as the unofficial headquarters for startup activity in Chapel Hill and Orange County. Results since its January 2013 launch include” 49 startups, 94 jobs, and $3.7 million in funding. Out partner site Exit Event provides a closer look at the accelerator. In recent years, UNC-Chapel Hill has committed to making entrepreneurship one of the school’s cornerstones. The ever-growing Entrepreneurship Minor is now enrolling more than 150 students per year; the Carolina Challenge continues to develop as a premier year-long business competition, and a $100 million gift to...
Read MoreJust two blocks off the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, Launch Chapel Hill serves as the unofficial headquarters for startup activity in Chapel Hill and Orange County. In recent years, UNC-Chapel Hill has committed to making entrepreneurship one of the school’s cornerstones. The ever-growing Entrepreneurship Minor is now enrolling more than 150 students per year; the Carolina Challenge continues to develop as a premier year-long business competition, and a $100 million gift to the School of Pharmacy was used to create the Eshelman Institute for Innovation earlier this year. (Here’s ExitEvent’s overview of UNC entrepreneurship activities) Part of that commitment to entrepreneurship...
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