Calling all startup community organizers in Texas for GEW!

Sign up to be a Community Organizer for Global Entrepreneurship Week in November and celebrate the entrepreneurs in your city while tapping into a global movement. Texas needs to represent!

Joshua Baer
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2 min readSep 24, 2020

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Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is the world’s largest collection of events, competitions, and activities in +170 countries, reaching millions of people of all ages and backgrounds. The only way it could get any bigger is to bring more TEXAS to it! Texas is a country, isn’t it?

That’s why I’m honored to serve as the Texas State Coordinator for 2020!

Going virtual is a change to reach even MORE entrepreneurs in MORE Texas cities working on solving all kinds of problems. That’s where YOU come in. We need your help to make sure that Texas represents and engages the ENTIRE state.

As a Community Organizer, you have the opportunity to organize and manage any kind of programming that is relevant to your community — keynotes, panels, hack-a-thons, startup showcases, or something new. It’s a great opportunity to show off your startup community and get the message out to new people who might not have been exposed to entrepreneurship before.

If you’d like to be a part of the “GEW Crew”, apply here to represent your city or county. Email me at josh@quityourjob.com or Ellen Bateman at ellen@genglobal.org with questions.

In addition to helping to promote all of the great GEW programming across the state, Capital Factory is hosting a (virtual) Texas Startups Roadshow in conjunction with GEW and using our position to further connect and elevate startups across Texas.

Highlights from the 2019 Texas Startups Roadshow. That one was on buses but this one is virtual which means that even more investors can participate from all over the world!

Get your city on the list! Organize a simple panel discussion or a whole week of programming. You can figure out what’s the best fit for your community.

GEW Confirmed Participants

Email me to add your name to the list!

Amarillo

Austin

Dallas

Fort Worth

Plano

San Antonio

San Marcos

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