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Global initiative targets young entrepreneurs
This is Global Entrepreneurship Week, a worldwide initiative that encourages young people from Uganda to France and from Japan to Brazil to express their creativity through innovation and to follow their entrepreneurial dreams.
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Oklahoma is celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week with events statewide, including Alva, Duncan, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman and Stillwater. Don’t miss the opportunities to explore the challenges and rewards of growing a small business into a commercial success. The complete list of state events and those from around the world can be found online at unleashingideas.org.
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At events across Oklahoma, our state’s young people, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders and public officials are among more than 3 million people from 85 countries participating in a celebration of entrepreneurship.
This is a good reminder of how important building community among entrepreneurs is to a sustainable entrepreneurial economy — whether that economy is global or local.
i2E works with several organizations that provide foundation and momentum to Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial community. One of those is the Oklahoma Chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organizationa private-sector, international not-for-profit organization of more than 7,300 business owners in 42 countries.
Entrereneurs Organization members are either founders, co-founders or majority shareholders of entrepreneurial companies that are doing a million or more dollars in revenue annually.
Now approaching nearly two dozen members in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma Chapter began about two years ago and continues to grow.
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