Galvanizing Global Small Businesses Worldwide By Supporting Women and Young Entrepreneurs

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Facing limited access to affordable finance, capacity-building support, partnership networks, and global markets, women and young entrepreneurs need help to overcome the numerous challenges that frequently stifle the growth of their businesses, confining many of them to informality or necessity entrepreneurship.

Learn more about how we can leave no one behind.

2023: New Global Businesses to Be Born and Built

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This is how global entrepreneurship will change in 2023.

• Unprecedented economic disruption in recent years can create the perfect conditions for new businesses to be born and built.
• Young entrepreneurs are bypassing the traditional labor market, while those already in work are looking to side hustles and beyond.
• In 2023, we’ll see a new form of entrepreneurship emerge – more diverse, more socially-minded, and not afraid to multi-hustle.

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World Entrepreneurship: Keep Your Eye on Young Entrepreneurs in 2020

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The year 2020 has been an emerging year for the world of entrepreneurship, specifically amongst teenagers. From being quarantined due to COVID-19 and away from their peers, there has been a growing number of teenagers starting businesses this year. Here are the top 10 young entrepreneurs to keep an eye on in 2020.

Read more about ten young and emerging entrepreneurs you should become familiar with in 2020.

Be Passionate About What You Do and Live Your Legend

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Let's face it.  If you are not into what you are doing professionally, how will you ever ride out the rough bumps along the way?  The only way to sustain what you do for a living is to love what you do.  Oh, and don't forget, failure comes with the territory until you get something to work.

Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes proves it.

Holmes’ company [Theranos, a health technology and medical laboratory services company] has been expanding rapidly, having grown from 500 to 700 employees even since Fortune wrote about it just five months ago [2014]. Its phlebotomists now draw blood from patients by fingerstick at dedicated “wellness centers” at more than 40 Walgreens in Arizona and one in Palo Alto, Calif., often emailing back results to both the patient and physician within hours.

Read:  Young Entrepreneurs Need "a Mission"

Have you got a mission?  If not, find one and get going in 2015! Whether young or old, everyone needs a mission in life.  Live your legend.

Young Student Entrepreneurs Take On the World

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Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (www.gsea.org). The GSEA program recognizes the world's outstanding undergraduate student entrepreneurs. Eligible students can visit the website to download an application form for the 2008 awards.

Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization(c-e-o.org). CEO is the premier global entrepreneurship network servicing chapters at 134 colleges and universities. Students can register online for the national conference.

Students in Free Enterprise (sife.org). SIFE is a global nonprofit group active in more than 40 countries. Through regional and national competiions, SIFE presents awards in its core areas of market economies, entrepreneurship, personal financial success skills and business ethics.

Young Money (youngmoney.com/entrepreneur). The website's entrepreneur channel features expert advice, student profiles and small business calculators.