Entrepreneurs, fired by their dreams and passions, have been the engine for creating new jobs, generating revenue, advancing innovation, enhancing productivity, and improving business models and processes. Are you a global entrepreneur? Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone of the free enterprise system around the world. In fact more than 500 million adults around the globe were engaged in some form of entrepreneurial activity.
We are the think tank for global entrepreneurs!
Founded in 1998, the Global Entrepreneurship Institute (GEI) is a non-profit 501(c) 3 educational organization with the specific mission of advising and educating entrepreneurs around the world. Working as a global business incubator GEI facilitates introductions to investors, professional service providers, and other entrepreneurs. Using our exclusive Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success we have helped entrepreneurs raise over $100 million.
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HOW WE HELP ENTREPRENEURS:
- Mentoring and Advising global entrepreneurs
- Structured Online Learning, Online Courses, Online Seminars
- Providing Networking forums, events, strategic partner events
- Hosting events, introducing customers to startups, and startups to new technologies
- Online Learning Center, resources, templates, spreadsheets, other important documents
- Do you want to learn more about entrepreneurship and starting a business? We have the world’s first online global entrepreneurship program. Now it’s simple and easy to take online courses created and led by renowned experts in the field of entrepreneurship.
>>Learn More: GCASEONLINE Courses
- Do you want to network with other entrepreneurs and business students from around the world? We have a Member Forum and complete Online Learning Center for entrepreneurs. Research your ideas for a new start-up, network and meet with other entrepreneurs from around the world.
>>Learn More: GCASEONLINE Member Forum
- Do you need help preparing a business plan for your idea? Do you need help preparing an advisory board or meeting investors? We have a great Online Incubator Program to help entrepreneurs like you. Get support from our mentors and experts in your own private workspace.
>>Learn More: GCASEONLINE Incubator Program
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Supporting Entrepreneurial Capitalism Around The World
Entrepreneurial capitalism is key to the success for entrepreneurship. Starting with practically nothing, an entrepreneur is one who organizes a new venture, manages it, and assumes the associated risk.
entrepreneurial capitalism: private capital, investing in private start-ups, with potential for a viable harvest
>>Learn More: entrepreneurial capitalism
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We Are The Trusted Source For Educating & Supporting Entrepreneurs
Our mission is to spread wealth creation around the world by encouraging entrepreneurship and sharing knowledge to those who support and educate entrepreneurs. Our books and course materials are used in the Top 10 of the best graduate programs in the USA that teach entrepreneurship, and 8 of the Top 10 best undergraduate programs in the USA that teach entrepreneurship.
>>Learn More: Our Supporting Colleges & Universities
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World’s First Online Courses For Global Entrepreneurs
You can log in to our classes from any computer with Internet access, any time, day or night. All our online courses are presented in a clear, real-world format and contain all the elements you look for in a live class, including lectures, exercises and feedback from your instructor.
- Do you dream of starting your own business?
- Do you need help finding investors for your business?
- Do you need help with your business plan?
- Do you need help preparing a global business strategy?
- Do you have an idea for a new invention and don’t know where to start?
>>Learn More: GCASEONLINE Courses
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Our Exclusive Online Incubator Program
Online access to your private workspace where you can visit and work one-on-one with Experts and Professionals. Working in our private Online Incubator you will have access to structured educational content and lesson plans that focus on the most important business drivers to entrepreneurial success. It’s like attending an online class.
>>Learn More: GCASEONLINE Incubator Program
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Free Business Plan Review Service
- Do you have a business plan and need us to review it?
- How does it compare to other business plans that are out there now?
- Would you like to have your business plan “flight tested” before submitting to potential investors?
>>Free Business Plan Review Service
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Roadmap To Entrepreneurial Success: Powerful Strategies for Building a High-Profit Business
Publisher: AMACOM Books, American Management Association
ISBN: 0-8144-7190-0
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“Roadmap To Entrepreneurial Success promotes entrepreneurship and provides the necessary tools for both the new and experienced entrepreneur to stay on course and succeed.”
- Mark G. Heesen, President, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
“Roadmap To Entrepreneurial Success is a good checklist of checklists and advice for entrepreneurs.”
- Alfred R. Berkeley, III, Former President and Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.
“Roadmap To Entrepreneurial Success provides smart, practical and forward looking ideas for addressing the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in today’s ever more complicated business environment.”
- Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Company
“This is an entrepreneurial MBA between two covers.”
- Warren Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
“Success is always some combination of luck and skill. Roadmap helps minimize our reliance on luck and maximize the part that we can control. It is a must read for anyone venturing out on their own and a valuable refresher for those already there.”
- Diane C. Swonk, Former Chief Economist, Bank One Corp.
“As a venture capitalist, I listen to hundreds of pitches each year from entrepreneurs seeking advice or capital. Virtually all of them would be better prepared by following Roadmap.”
- Ken Deemer, Co-Founder, Tech Coast Angels
“Gives stunning insights into the venture world and entrepreneurial process.”
- Randy Lunn, Palomar Ventures
“One of the absolutely best business plan outlines I have seen to date. This tells you how to make that happen…I feel it is an absolutely necessary read. I give this book 5 stars. (Only the Bible and the Constitution receive 6 stars.)”
- Paul Tulenko, National Small Business Columnist
Roadmap is a practical, reality-based guide that carefully outlines the entrepreneurial life cycle from ‘opportunity recognition’ to market entry to selling the business.”
- Wells Fargo Bank, Small Business Advisor
“Whether you’re a new business owner or a seasoned veteran, anyone can benefit from Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success. Start to finish, this guide can teach you ways to maximize profitability in your business. Walks you through the steps to success.”
- National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
“Written in an amiable style, delivers concise reviews and examples of the entrepreneurial spirit in major companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Wal-Mart. Blends it all into a worthy discussion of how-to’s for entrepreneurs just starting out.”
- Harvard Business School
“Filled with key steps and strategies, it’s a start to finish guide to maximizing growth for new start-ups.”
- American Venture Magazine
“I would say the #1 benefit was that I used it to cross-check that my investor presentation hit all of the topics and major points within topics that you had called out. From that perspective, it was a very useful reference.”
- Jeff Hilbert President and CEO, WiSpry Inc.
Jeff raised over $13.5 million from Blueprint Ventures, American River Ventures, Sid R. Bass Associates, Shepherd Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels.
