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New York Entrepreneur Week

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Gary Whitehill, founder of New York Entrepreneur Week.
Gary W. Whitehill, founder of New York Entrepreneur Week.

New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW) is taking place in New York during the week of 16-20 November – that’s five full days worth of top-notch entrepreneur-focused events ranging from keynote speeches from recognized business leaders, inspired panel sessions to the NYEW Relentless business plan competition.

 NYEW is a 501c(3) non-profit organization started in July this year by 26 year-old Gary W. Whitehill, who wanted to pull together the many disparate resources available in New York for entrepreneurs.

“There are many great organizations with visionary missions who are achieving great things in the entrepreneurship space,” Gary says, “however, the issue is that each of these organizations is micro-focused on execution of their own individual missions.”

“As a result, the entrepreneur suffers greatly.”

“I realized the mammoth importance of having an organization which looked at the entrepreneurial landscape from a 20,000 or 30,000 foot view,” says Gary, who believes that entrepreneurship is the fundamental growth engine of the US economy.

If you happen to be in New York during that week, you’d do well to catch some of the events, and speakers such David S. Rose, the founder of Rose Tech Ventures and Chairman & CEO of Angelsoft, Marc Ecko of Marc Ecko Enterprises and Scott Heiferman of Meetup.com.

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  2. […] Last year, the New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW) took place during one of the most challenging times for the U.S. economy. Perhaps it was the unprecendented unemployment rate caused by the global economic depression that drove many to consider entrepreneurship, but 2009’s NYEW drew some 9,000 attendees both in person and online, with one in every 36 attendees going on to incorporate a new business, and one in every 75 attendees went away with plans to start their own business. […]

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