The President Speaks on Global Entrepreneurship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=31&v=XDvEI7p38xg
Published on May 11, 2015
President Obama delivers remarks at the White House Global Entrepreneurship Event in South Court Auditorium. May 11, 2015.
Obama
is right that people need to be entrpreneurs and stop relying on other
peoples' companies to employ them. People come out of college and can't
find jobs. They have huge debts and no way to ever pay them off. This is
not the 60s and 70s when industries were growing and could employ ever
more people. Unless somebody retires, a job might not come up. America
is a Capitalistic Democracy so take advantage of that fact. A job should
only be something you do to get working money to get something better
going. I personally wouldn't go to college in the present environment.
Just doesn't seem to be a good idea anymore and you have to put up with a
bunch of frat boy knobs giving everybody wedgies. That gets old pretty
fast.
+Lincoln Abraham
Whites have put blacks in the position they are in now. Stripped them
of their jobs, their dignity. Now, our leaders in Washington have taken
notice to the racism that is rampant in every police district in
America.
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CHECK FACT SHEET!!!
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
May 11, 2015
FACT SHEET: The United States’ Investment in Emerging Global Entrepreneurs
Today, as global entrepreneurs gathered for an event at the
White House, President Obama announced several steps to increase support
for emerging entrepreneurs here in the United States and around the
world. First, the President made investing in women and youth
entrepreneurs the top priority for his Administration’s global
entrepreneurship programs. Second, ahead of his travel to the Global
Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi this July, the President issued a
call to action, challenging companies, organizations, and individuals to
increase their investments in global emerging entrepreneurs. Third,
the President announced nine new Presidential Ambassadors for Global
Entrepreneurship, enlisting even more of America’s top talent to expand
the frontiers of inspiration, opportunity, and development around the
world. Finally, he recognized the creation of the Spark Global
Entrepreneurship coalition, made up of leading entrepreneurship
organizations who will support his call to action and better connect,
coordinate, and communicate entrepreneurship efforts across the globe.
Increasing Global Support for Women and Young Entrepreneurs
The United States is making empowering women and youth a central
objective of its global entrepreneurship programs. Today, even as
innovation and entrepreneurship spread rapidly around the world, there
are many marginalized groups unable to realize their entrepreneurial
aspirations. Access to capital, training, and markets, as well as
cultural and legal barriers continue to prevent millions from starting
their own ventures. For this reason, the President directed U.S.
programs to increase efforts to attract investment for women and young
entrepreneurs. In 2014, the Administration set a goal for its global entrepreneurship programs, led under the umbrella of the U.S. government’s Spark Global Entrepreneurship Initiative,
to generate over a billion dollars in private investment for emerging
entrepreneurs around the world by the end of 2017. Half of this goal
will be specifically for women and young entrepreneurs.
This increased emphasis builds on a strong foundation of programs
that have pioneered new engagement with emerging entrepreneurs around
the world in recent years. Women and young entrepreneurs currently
benefit from flagship exchanges offered by the President’s young leader
initiatives in Africa, Southeast Asia, and now the Americas, as well as programs like the African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program, and Women Entrepreneurship in the Americas.
As a result of today’s announcement, the Administration will expand
opportunities for women and young entrepreneurs in other U.S. Government
global programs.
Call to Action
During today’s event, the President issued a call to action to
companies, organizations, and individuals across the globe to increase
their support to emerging entrepreneurs, especially women and youth,
particularly in the run-up to this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit
in Nairobi. This support can come in the form of financial investment,
mentorship, networking, education, and exchange programs. By putting
women and youth at the center of our efforts, the U.S. Government will
bring entrepreneurship, innovation, and empowerment to underserved
communities around the world.
Commitments can be made through www.state.gov/spark.
A report on the initial pledges put forward in response to the call to
action will be presented at GES in Nairobi. The summit will provide a
platform for elevating and linking these commitments. Two Spark Global
Entrepreneurship events will take place on the road to Nairobi. The
first will be hosted by the U.S. Government in Madrid, Spain in mid-June
and the second in Lagos, Nigeria in early July. These international
events will offer the opportunity to attract additional support for the
President’s challenge. Meanwhile, here at home, the President is
focused on ensuring that those underrepresented in entrepreneurship
across the United States are being tapped to fully contribute their
talents, which is why later this summer there will be the first-ever White House Demo Day focused on inclusive entrepreneurship.
Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE)
Established by President Obama in 2014, the Presidential Ambassadors
for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE) employ the skills, networks, and
resources of top American entrepreneurs to develop the next generation
of entrepreneurs at home and abroad. Each PAGE member has developed a
signature initiative, designed to make significant contributions to the
U.S. Government’s goal of generating over $1 billion for emerging global
entrepreneurs. With the addition of the nine new PAGE members
announced today, there are 17 active PAGE members. The initial class of
PAGE members supported entrepreneurship by creating new tools for
entrepreneurs; speaking at major international gatherings such as the
Global Entrepreneurship Summit and the Mandela Washington Fellows
summit; and joining Administration officials on travel advocating for
improvements to the entrepreneurial ecosystem around the world.
The new members of PAGE are listed below:
Brian Chesky, Co-Founder & CEO, Airbnb (San Francisco, CA)
Antonio Gracias, CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Valor Equity (Chicago, IL)
Julie Hanna, Executive Chair of the Board, Kiva (San Francisco, CA)
Elizabeth Holmes, Founder and CEO, Theranos (Palo Alto, CA)
Daymond John, CEO of FUBU and Shark Branding (New York, NY)
Daniel Lubetzky, Founder & CEO, KIND Snacks (New York, NY)
Alison Rosenthal, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships Wealthfront, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Debbie Sterling, CEO and Founder, GoldieBlox (San Francisco, CA)
Andrew Yang, Founder & CEO, Venture for America (New York, NY)
Spark Global Entrepreneurship Coalition
After the U.S. Government launched its Spark Global Entrepreneurship
initiative last November, leading entrepreneurship organizations came
together to form an umbrella coalition. The aim of the Spark Global
Entrepreneurship Coalition is to connect, coordinate, and create common
goals across public, private, and non-profit sector efforts to advance
entrepreneurship around the world. The coalition will help to advance
the efforts of the U.S. Government’s Spark Global Entrepreneurship
Initiative to invest in emerging entrepreneurs by linking participants
from those programs with resources, networks, and opportunities. One of
their first activities will be to work with the U.S. Department of
State on coordinating partnerships for this summer’s Global
Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya.
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