Here we are in The Kansas City Star, the Black Engineer, and at Arizona State University. We're also mentioned in Singapore! These will be just the first of many posts to arrive in the coming days. Bo Fishback summarizes the intent of Global Entrepreneurship Week best in the Kansas City Star.
“It’s an experiment to see if you can really flip the switch in millions of people over the course of a week,” said Bo Fishback, vice president of entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation. People who succeed at starting successful businesses are infected with an “entrepreneurial bug,” Fishback said.
Everyone at Kauffman engaged with the launch, with lots of heavy global travel to promote it. I am actually packing bags today for a 9-day trip. I'm probably only person who will speak at two launch events on Monday morning ... on two sides of the international date line.
I start in Seoul, South Korea on Monday morning, then catch a flight to Hawaii, then back to Los Angeles. I am eager to participate, but also praying a snowstorm doesn't hit home while I am gone. That has happened way too many times, and the spouse stopped thinking it was ironically humorous a few trips ago. Yikes!
Reading for the trip:
- Discovery, a Memoir by Vernon L. Smith
- The Genesis of Industrial America by Maury Klein
- Closing the Innovation Gap by Judy Estrin
- Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy that Reign Over College Football by Stewart Mandel
- Knowledge and Wealth of Nations by David Warsh (re-reading)
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