The Next Wave of Promising Founders Haven't Found You...Yet
For every founder in your community, there are hundreds more who didn't know they could be.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is the most cost-effective audience acquisition campaign an entrepreneur support organization will run all year. One week. 200 countries. A coordinated global moment built specifically to reach them — and welcome them into your network.
Fill your pipeline. Grow your community. And say it out loud:
Entrepreneurs thrive here.
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THE OPPORTUNITY
Turn curiosity into sign-ups for your ESO.
The talent exists. The ambition exists. What's missing is the moment that makes entrepreneurship feel like a real option — not for the people already in your ecosystem, but for those who've never seen themselves as founders.
34M
estimated "missing entrepreneurs" in OECD countries — people who would start businesses if their social group had the same startup rate as men aged 30-49. They exist. They just haven't been activated yet.
OECD
25M
of those missing entrepreneurs are women — nearly 70% of the total gap. The founders your programs are designed to support are the ones least likely to be finding you on their own.
OECD
65M
young people worldwide remain unemployed today — a vast latent pool of potential founders who haven't yet found their path. ESOs are uniquely positioned to reach them.
ILO
20%
of youth globally are not in employment, education, or training. This is not a motivation problem. It is an access and awareness problem — and it is solvable.
ILO
THE CORE MESSAGE
Entrepreneurs thrive here.
The campaign theme is designed to fill your pipeline and make a statement. When your organization joins Global Entrepreneurship Week, you're doing more than running events. You're adding your voice to a global declaration — made by ESOs, governments, and communities in 200 countries simultaneously — that entrepreneurs thrive here. In your city. In your community. Among the people your programs exist to serve.
That declaration matters. It changes how potential founders see themselves. It changes how funders see your organization. And it changes how the world sees your community.
PROVEN IMPACT
We're not just raising awareness. We're changing behavior.
Post-campaign data shows measurable shifts in business formation, confidence, and ecosystem connection among participants.
55%
started a business within one year of attending
39%
are inspired to start a business in the future
10M+
People reached globally
40,000+
Events worldwide connect citizens to programs, mentors, investors, and support networks.
HOW IT WORKS
A Global Campaign, Locally Owned
Global Entrepreneurship Week gives you a tested, production-ready foundation — so the work you put in goes into your community, not into building assets from scratch.
Step 01
Register as an Event Organizer
Create or update a GEN user profile and add information about your organization.
Step 02
Plan Your Campaign
Organize events, activations, and awareness campaigns to reach potential new entrepreneurs in your community. Add your events to the Global Entrepreneurship Week calendar while logged in to your GEN user profile.
Step 03
Announce Your Campaign With Us
Partners around the world will announce their campaigns at the same time. Leverage our toolkits to join our global announcement.
Step 04
Activate in November
Run events and campaigns, generate earned media, connect your ecosystem — and join 200 countries in a coordinated global moment that amplifies national efforts.
WHAT PARTNERS RECEIVE
Everything you need to get started. Nothing holding you back from making it your own.
Global Entrepreneurship Week amplifies the work you're already doing — helping you reach new audiences, giving you a global stage, a shared brand, and a coordinated moment that generates media, partnerships, and pipeline.
Production-ready toolkit
Brand guidelines, editable visual templates, event and campaign ideas, and audience persona guides.
A network of 25,000 ESOs
Every event organizer joins a worldwide peer network — opening doors to cross-border collaboration, shared learning, and visibility with investors and policymakers.
Measurable pipeline impact
Global Entrepreneurship Week events consistently convert curiosity into action. 55% of attendees started a business within a year. These become the leads that walk through your door next.
Funder and partner visibility
Demonstrate community reach and mission impact to the funders, governments, and partners who evaluate your program's relevance and scale.
ESOS IN ACTION
Entrepreneur support organizations are leading the way.
Accelerators, incubators, hubs, and entrepreneurship networks worldwide use the campaign as their moment to grow their audiences, strengthen their pipeline, and show their community what's possible.
Global Network
Junior Achievement Worldwide
JA Worldwide partners with Global Entrepreneurship Week to spotlight youth voices, offer inspiring opportunities to its students and alumni, and celebrate the entrepreneurial mindset through events and activations at its local chapters.
Accelerator
Techstars
Techstars hosts pre-accelerator programs during GEW — using the global moment to identify and engage founders earlier in their journey, before they're ready for a full accelerator program.
Universities
Penn State + Daffodil University
From Penn State in the United States to Daffodil University in Bangladesh, universities host community-level programs that reach potential new entrepreneurs beyond their existing student populations.
Global network
Endeavor
Endeavor offices globally participate by hosting innovation challenges, workshops, summits and announcing new cohorts of high-impact 'Endeavor entrepreneurs'
"Global Entrepreneurship Week is a galvanizing moment."
Asheesh Advani CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide
Get Started
Join ESOs, accelerators, incubators, universities, governments and entrepreneurship networks from around the world — and activate the next wave of problem solvers.
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