The Entrepreneurship Evangelist

I really need to learn to shave much more closely under the hot lights. Oh well.

I take the crusade tonight for the Aula at the Stockholm School of Economics with a seminar titled, It’s all about the money. It starts at 18:00, if you want to check it out. Venture Cup is supplying some free munchies, if you need the additional motivation.

Johan Stael von Holstein picked some fresh blood for iQube a few days ago. iQube, if you don’t know is a newfangled new venture incubator as such. In fact one of the iQube’s success stories are students of mine. Anyway, Johan was lucky to get an inflow of cash about 45 Million SEK during the summer. So, I guess it was a good time to announce the new board additions.

The four new mini-celebrity board members are: Företagarna’s Managing Director, Gunvor Engström, media entrepreneur Anne Wegelius, Svenska Spel’ss Managing Director Jesper Kärrbrink and Bonnier Tidskrifter publishing boss Ulrika Saxon.

I applaud these appointments. However, if Johan really wants to help build global and paradigm busting businesses, he is going to have to have a much more diverse group of business coaches, mentors and a much more diverse board.

If you are an entrepreneur and still in school or became an entrepreneur while you were still in school, pleae contact me. When I say school, I mean at any level - grade school through PhD studies. For this phase of the project I am just looking for students in Sweden and the U.S.
terrence@entrepreneurshipevangelist.com

How much value have you created today? That was my opening to my speech last nite. Even before I introduced myself.

At the Aula Magna at Stockholm University, my crusade began. I told the audience that entrepreneurship is about creating and redistributing wealth in the most effective, efficient and democratic way. (This does not mean that pain is ocassionally involved.) While the economic role of entrepreneurship is more well known, entrepreneurship has an important social role as well. Being a entrepreneur is a noble profession. Furthermore everyone has the opportunity (or should have the opportunity) to become an entrepreneur. We need to make sure the new government keeps this in mind as it develops its policies.

From the response of the crowd during the speech as well the response of the many people who came up to me afterwards, I seem to have already gain some converts.

Tomorrow I am one of the keynote speakers at the Venture Cup 2006 Kick Off event. I will announce the formal naming of my crusade to spread entrepreneurship far a wide.