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.
We Are Here To Help You With Your Business Plan and Your Ideas
Using our exclusive Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success we have helped entrepreneurs raise over $100 million and create companies that are worth hundred of millions of dollars. Let us help you. Our Experts and Advisors contribute valuable real-world knowledge, networking contacts, and fresh ideas to your venture team. Our Online Incubator Program is particularly valuable for new entrepreneurs, who may not have the access to expensive business advisors.
Dream It! Plan It! Do It!
- 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?
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Our Online Incubator Program
Particularly valuable for new entrepreneurs, who may not have the access to expensive business advisors. Online access to your private workspace where you can visit and work one-on-one with your Mentors and Experts. 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 course.
Premium Online Member Services Include:
1. Our Online Courses
2. Private Workspace In Online Incubator
3. Our Online Learning Center
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Eligibility
Our Online Incubator Program is global. We work with all industry sectors. To be accepted into our exclusive program, the entrepreneur must be coachable, willing to learn, and have a strong desire to build a high-growth potential enterprise. We prefer working with founder/co-founders of seed and early-stage ventures. Please let us know if you were referred here by one of our professional service providers, investors; or another entrepreneur of our global community. Finally you and your venture team and partners must be in good standing with our organization, other members, and our professional service providers.
>>Get Started Now: Membership
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1. Our Online Courses
We offer the world’s first online courses for global entrepreneurs. Now it’s simple and easy to take online courses created and led by renowned experts in the field of entrepreneurship. Our courses are designed to fit into your schedule. You can log in to our classes from any computer with Internet access, any time, day or night.
All our courses are presented in a clear, real-world format and contain all the elements you look for in a live class, including lectures, writing exercises and feedback from your instructor.
- Access to all online courses offered during membership
- Access to all online guest lectures and discussions by experts
- Access to award winning resources and course materials
- Access to our online courses from anywhere in the world
- All you need is Internet access and a Web browser
- Live, rich interaction with instructors and experts
- You participate in online discussions and learning activities
- There are other students in the online courses at the same time
- NOT video, audio, podcasts that you listen to alone
- NOT stale slide shows, reposting of blogs etc.
- NOT bulletin boards and self-learning
>>Learn More: Online Courses
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2. Private Workspace In Online Incubator
Particularly valuable for new entrepreneurs, who may not have the access to expensive business advisors. Online access to your private workspace where you can visit and work one-on-one with your Mentors and Experts. 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 course.
Each Online Incubator Plan Includes:
- Free access to all our online courses offered
- Whole suite of one-on-one consulting services from industry Experts
- 24/7 access to your private online workspace, files and document library
- Fast, Friendly, & Expert Support from our experts and professionals
- 24-hour turnaround on your important questions, comments, concerns
- Includes Scheduled Phone Support and conference calls up to 10 people
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Benefits: Our Online Incubator Program
Moving from the idea to implementation of starting a new business is always challenging. You will receive critical feedback and guidance on a regular basis. Our innovative service will empower you with the confidence, knowledge, and the tools you need to grow your business. You will learn the skills to make yourself a better entrepreneur.
Many good things happen when you work in our Online Program:
- You begin to take your dreams more seriously
- You immediately take more effective and focused actions
- You stop putting up with what is holding you back from your dreams
- You create momentum, so it’s easier to get results when you are motivated
- You set better goals than you would have without advice of our experts
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Typical Deliverables: What we will work on together
- Business plan and start-up strategy for starting and operating your new business
- Detailed business plan for internal use, for external use to raise money
- Incorporating feedback and suggestions from “flight testing,” revising materials
- Revised business plan for internal use, for external use to raise money
- Financials to include detailed cash budget table and detailed use of proceeds
- Investors Kit to include Executive Summary, collateral materials
- PowerPoint Presentation for investors, strategic partners, and other stakeholders
- Talking points and deal points for financing/loan agreement
- Comfort and confidence from having a peace of mind!
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Introducing You to Professional Service Providers and Potential Investors
Is your company “really” investor ready? Do you know how to market and sell to outside investors? Do you have a sound financing strategy? Here is what Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, once said: “There are only two ways of raising money: the hard way and the very hard way.”
In addition to working with with us, you will have access to our guest lecturers and advisors that include high-level professional service providers like:
- venture capitalists
- angel investors
- industry experts
- consultants
- investment bankers
- lawyers
- accountants
- fellow entrepreneurs
Navigating through the universe of investors can be confusing, even for the most experienced entrepreneurs. Our list of advisors and experts includes venture capitalists, angel investors, and strategic investors. Our unique relationships with these private equity investors allow us to help you target the optimal investors, and we can help facilitate the introductions to investors for you.
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Helping You Create And Manage An Advisory Board
Every publicly traded company in the United States has a formal board of directors. Experienced boards can also help lead entrepreneurs through uncertain times. Michael Dell discovered this: “If a company is having problems, the role of its board becomes greater. Many board members may have seen recessions and downturns more closely than the people who are operating companies today.
Because most managers have probably not been through something like this, the board can provide perspective.” And marquee board members can lead the venture to funding. Eugen Chan, CEO of U.S. Genomics, recruited Dr. Craig Venter, president of the first company to map an entire human genome, and by the end of 2002 U.S. Genomics received $25 million in funding.
Benefits of Creating An Advisory Board
We know that the most successful entrepreneurial/start-up companies create an advisory board because many entrepreneurs tend to surround themselves with too supportive “Yes” people. They also tend to get too close to their strengths and weaknesses. In the end, it is difficult to for them to become objective. As General Patton once said, “No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike.” The founders can often start a fatal flaw of “breathing their own exhaust, and they” and the business runs the risks of suffocating from the lack of new insight and ideas.
Our Experts can provide questions and ideas that can help stimulate active discussions immediately with your stakeholders. A stakeholder is anyone–whether within or outside your venture–who has a stake in your venture’s performance. Employees, owners, suppliers, investors, and board members are all stakeholders.
Practiced this way, our Online Incubator Program can serve as a “feasibility-sieve,” helping entrepreneurs ensure that questions of feasibility are fully addressed. Our professional advisory services can also encourage what we call “creative turbulence” from your established board members and team of advisors. Remember that while you are riding through their creative turbulence, they have a responsibility to keep asking the right questions and will do so until they are all answered!
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3. Our Online Learning Center
We are the trusted source for educating and 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. The foundation of coursework and program materials for our Online Incubator Program is used at the best business schools in the world that teach entrepreneurship.
In fact, 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. You will have complete online access to the best resources for educating entrepreneurs.
>>Learn More: Course Materials
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About Our Online Incubator
Features some of the most robust yet easy-to-use Internet software ever developed. Our secure online learning enables you to log on from any Internet Service Provider.
It’s like attending an online class. It is the most convenient way to learn about starting a new business, writing a detailed business plan, and working online together. This upgrades the quality of your work, helping you prepare your business plan and more solid business strategies. Throughout the time in the Online Incubator Program, your Mentors and Experts will provide guidance and feedback on your progress and provide sound business knowledge.
Work at your own speed, on your own time, 24/7. In your private workspace, all interactions and discussions are conducted asynchronously, using only your Internet browser, so you participate at your convenience. You never have to rush from the office or home to a workshop across town to make an important meeting. You won’t miss an important discussion because of a scheduling conflict.
Technology Recommendations
Hardware & Peripherals:
- A processor of 1.6 GHz or faster
- 256MB RAM or greater
- 1 GB hard drive or larger
- High-speed Internet connection
- Monitor and graphics card with 1024×768 or greater resolution
Operating system:
- Windows® operating software
- Microsoft® Office
- Microsoft® Word
- Microsoft® PowerPoint®
- Microsoft® Excel
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer version 6.0 or later
- Adobe® Reader 6.0 or later
- A current anti-virus application (we recommend Web Root)
- An email address
- Internet service provider (ISP) account (preferably broadband access)
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Our Confidentiality Agreement with You
Throughout your association with our organization, we may be in contact with or directly working with proprietary and confidential information which is important to your professional business activities. We will take care to keep your materials confidential. We do not sign Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Consider the fact that we receive so many business plans each week that if we were to sign every NDA request, we would quickly be swamped with legal documents. Our reputation depends on our professionalism and our ability to maintain the trust of the entrepreneurs with whom we work. We agree that such information must be treated with strict confidence and may not be used at any time or in any manner in work we may do with others in your industry, or business activities. We agree not to disclose the confidential information or any discussions with your organization that have occurred, or are intended to occur, without written consent by your organization. Any other information we may collect from our association with your organization is not disseminated nor sold to other organizations outside of the Global Entrepreneurship Institute.
