The Cool Factor: Singaporeans

I just returned from a trip to Singapore to attend a World Entrepreneurship Forum Board meeting. We will be hosting our fourth annual World Entrepreneurship Forum in Singapore November 2011 and wanted to make sure our venue choice is a good fit to our Forum's needs.

The Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have jointly become the third founding member of the World Entrepreneurship Forum.

Singapore will host the 4th annual conference of the World Entrepreneurship Forum in November 2011. This makes Singapore the first founding member from Asia to join the Forum, and the first country in Asia to host the Forum.

In the past, we hosted our event in Lyon, France.

No surprises here. Singapore is fantastic.   I consider it the entrepreneurial capital of the world and further, Singapore carries the "cool factor."  To find out why, read "Are Singaporeans Cool?"

Stay tuned for more information about our November event -- coming soon!

Photo credit: Laurel Delaney, Singapore Changi Airport, 2/8/11.

The Power of Entrepreneurship Spreads Globally

For those who missed the World Entrepreneur of the Year awards ceremony in Monaco recently:

The 42 countries represented at the event included China and several former Soviet-bloc nations - places where starting a private business was illegal not so long ago. In other countries, the weakening of traditional business structures, such as Korean chaebol, have created opportunities for smaller players. Tax and regulatory reform, the lowering of protectionist barriers, technological advances and the rise of the Internet, all have made it easier — though certainly not easy - to create and build a business.

Ernst & Young started the competition in the U.S. in 1986 and expanded it worldwide 10 years ago.

Read more here about how entrepreneurship goes global.

And don't forget about the World Entrepreneurship Forum (full disclosure: I am a member) which is the first international think-tank devoted to global entrepreneurship.

Posted by: The Global Small Business Blog