The world economy has disappointed this year with its jobless recovery and continuing financial instability. Clearly, the country needs more entrepreneurs. A recent poll in the U.S. shows that those ages 18-34--the so-called “Millennial Generation”--are that entrepreneurial bunch. Fifty-four percent of “millennials” either want to start a business or already have started one. And judging by last week’s vibrant Global Entrepreneurship Week , this seems to be a global phenomenon and one driven by people interested in doing good and do well.
Take Global Entrepreneurship Week’s Startup Open, which received thousands of applications from startups from over 60 countries launched between GEW 2010 & GEW 2011. The ‘GEW 50’—those with the greatest chance of growing into game-changing firms that will move markets and create jobs—included many women-led firms as well as a lot of new for-profit companies birthed to solve problems. The two final winners were Cambridge-based Fenugreen and Boston's Dynamo Micropower. Kavita Shukla founded Fenugreen to offer patented, all-natural material to address the global challenge of food spoilage. Jason Ethier's winning Dynamo Micropower in turn commercializes a proprietary ultra-micro turbine architecture that will supplant conventional power solutions in the sub-10kW range.
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