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The Prince’s Trust Whizz Kid launches search for ‘Fresh Prince’

The Prince’s Trust backed drug-dealer-turned-entrepreneur Duane Jackson, 30, has launched his own search for ‘The Fresh Prince’ in collaboration with the Partnership in Enterprise programme. Jackson, whose web-based accountancy software business, Kashflow, received a start-up loan, grant and mentoring from The Prince’s Trust is now valued at up to £10 million. It is regarded as [...]

Date posted: July 2, 2009

 

World’s largest speed networking event to be held during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009

The world’s largest speed-networking event will be held during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November 2009.
Online dating millionaire Ross Williams, Chairman and Founder of Global Personals, on collaboration with Partnership in Enterprise, is creating the world’s largest speed networking event for Global Entrepreneurship Week this year, with young entrepreneurs from over 77 countries linked up simultaneously via webcams for a single networking event.

Date posted: July 1, 2009

 

Wheeler to judge Partnership in Enterprise Competition

The newly appointed Judge of Partnership in Enterprise’s competition is the Sunday Times Corporate Entrepreneurship Challenge Judge and Founder of Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts, Nick Wheeler. Wheeler is leading a delegation to Ghana to visit some new enterprises in October 2009 in advance of Global Entrepreneurship Week in November. “Promoting enterprise to the third world is [...]

Date posted: June 30, 2009

 

New York City Entrepreneur Week

Over 2,000 entrepreneurs, local investors, service providers, financiers and technology and business experts met in New York City on the 20th-24th April 2009 with one goal: to promote entrepreneurship. The reason for the meeting was the inaugural New York City Entrepreneur Week (NYC ENT), a week-long event designed to give entrepreneurs the tools and guidance [...]

Date posted: April 17, 2009

 

Youth entrepreneurship gets White House support

First Lady Michelle Obama, speaking in a USA Today editorial, says the key to overcoming our current economic situation is involving all parts of society–including youth. Drawing on her background with AmeriCorps, she highlights a number of programs across the county that are empowering youth with jobs and opportunities. And, she points out the willingness [...]

Date posted: April 15, 2009

 

Barack Obama Leads Way On Social Entrepreneurship

Barack Obama pledge, at the start of his Presidential campaign, to create “a new Social Entrepreneur Agency to makes sure that small non-profits have the same kind of support that we give small businesses.” He has promised to expand programmess like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps as part of this. Michele Jolin, a CAP Senior Fellow [...]

Date posted: February 12, 2009

 

BBC Dragon Star Launched Pakistan Initiative

BBC Dragon’s Den star James Caan initiated Partnership in Enterprise’s initiative to send British Pakistani Muslims to enterprises in Pakistan in March 2008. It was in collaboration with our partner, Projects Abroad. To date, several small groups have visited Pakistan. James Caan has just been named the new Co-chair of the Department of Business’s Ethnic [...]

Date posted: January 31, 2009

 

British Business Secretary at Launch of Partnership in Enterprise

Lord Peter Mandelson attended the launch of Partnership in Enterprise at the inaugural Global Entrepreneurship Week at Southbank, London on the 18th November 2008. Two of Partnership in Enterprise’s global entrepreneurs, Vijaya Prakash from his organic farm in India and Richard Brown from his Football Academy in Ghana, spoke to the 500 strong audience via [...]

Date posted: November 17, 2008