GEW USA Startup Cities Week in Review

Hope
Grauel

The GEW USA Startup Cities initiative features cities around the United States with promising and growing entrepreneurial communities. The mission of the Startup Cities initiative is to help produce more successful entrepreneurs by increasing the number of healthy startup communities and by connecting entrepreneurs to better support services.

Here are some highlights of GEW activities in various cities across the nation and Puerto Rico.

Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina

The Cooking Up Ideas to Achieve Food for All event at UNC Chapel Hill on Nov. 21, presents a real-world challenge to students and participants to solve. Participants will hear a reverse pitch about food insecurity in North Carolina. From there, they must research, collaborate and pitch their ideas to address the problem. There will be a creative thinking and design bootcamp, as well as prizes for pitch winners. Check out some other events held across North Carolina this week.

Louisville, Kentucky
Entrepreneurs in Louisville, Kentucky, interested in joining fellow entrepreneurs working to build their network, had the opportunity to participate in the iHub Open Co-Working Day. The co-working day, sponsored by Enterprise Corp, provides a modern, inexpensive office space for busiensses. The studios also offer new companies the opportunity to network with others in a startup ecosystem.

View all GEW activities in Louisville

 

Dallas, Texas

The Grove is sponsoring a workshop, “Social Media for Biz Newbies,” in Dallas, Texas, as part of their week of entrepreneurship activities. The Grove Communications Animator led the discussion on current social media platforms, how to use them to promote business how to select the most appropriate options for a business’ needs.

View all GE activities in Dallas by visiting Launch DFW event page.
 

Puerto Rico

One event, the H3 Tech Conference, brings together three groups – “hackers, hipsters and hustlers” – and encourages software programmers, designers and entrepreneurs to create a healthy startup ecosystem.

  • Womentechover, Nov. 17
  • INprende College Tour hosted by the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Nov. 17
  • Animus Meet-Up, Nov. 18
  • Startup Pitch Bootcamp hosted by Piloto 151, Nov. 19
  • Echar Pa’lante BPPR, Nov. 20
  • The H3 Tech Conference, Nov. 20-21
  • MIT Hacking Medicine in the Caribbean hosted by SHILAC, Nov. 20-22

For more information and to view all of the GEW activities in Puerto Rico please visit www.gewpr.org/#events.
 

Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Amazing Race was one of many fun events held in celebration of entrepreneurship in Tulsa this week. Teams of three or four people sped around the city, stopping at business hotspots to pick up clues and complete team challenges. Designed to bring out the entrepreneurial spirit of contestants, the goal of the race was to complete all the challenges in the shortest amount of time.

Here are some highlights of GEW activities going on in featured city Tulsa, OK:

 

Washington, D.C.
The Big Idea Student Pitch Competition was one of many events hosted by American University’s Kogod School of Business. Students submitted pitch videos about a range of ideas from products and services to the arts and technology. Three finalists were determined based on the strength, value and potential of their idea and the quality of their presentation.

Here are some other GEW highlights in Washington D.C.:

For more information and to view all of the GEW USA events, go to www.gewusa.org.

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