San Francisco, CA, November 14, 2006 – Mike Faith, President and CEO of Headsets.com, has joined with a growing number of high profile entrepreneurs, authors and inventors in EntrepreneurshipWeek USA, a national effort to inspire and encourage young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice, while helping celebrate America’s unique culture of inventiveness.
Faith joins more than 300 organizations and other notable entrepreneurs, authors and inventors, representing thousands of individuals that will host and organize events during EntrepreneurshipWeek USA, Feb. 24 – March 3, 2007. These events will be designed to inspire, educate and prepare young people, primarily ages 14 to 25, to be among America’s next great entrepreneurs and innovators.
Faith and other high profile entrepreneurs still being recruited will be involved in EntrepreneurshipWeek USA in a variety of ways including participating in an Ask-an-Entrepreneur online session, speaking at events - on college campuses and other venues, participating in collegiate business plan competitions, sponsoring and/or hosting local events, and in mentoring the next generation of entrepreneurs.
“EntrepreneurshipWeek USA is based on the ideal of the successful entrepreneur while being committed to helping entrepreneurs succeed.” said Faith
Also lending their support to EntrepreneurshipWeek USA are Dean Kamen, founder of FIRST and inventor of the Segway Human Transporter; Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko’s and author of Copy This!; Maxine Clark, founder, Chief Executive Bear and chairman of Build-A-Bear Workshop; Edward Iacobucci, president and chief executive officer of DayJet Corporation; Ron Rubin, Minister of Tea and owner of The Republic of Tea; Victor Tsao, co-Founder of Linksys and senior vice president of Cisco Systems, Inc.; Mark Schmid, founder of Syndrome Distribution; and, Jim Kenefick, chairman of Better World Telecom.
Additionally, Judson Laipply, founder and president of Let’s Dance Media, Inc. and creator of the all-time most viewed YouTube video; Randal Pinkett, chairman and CEO of BCT Partners, a management, technology and policy consulting firm, and Season 4 Winner of “The Apprentice”; and Michael E. Gerber, founder and Chairman of E-Myth Worldwide, Chief Dreamer, In the Dreaming Room, LLC, and author of the forthcoming Awakening the Entrepreneur Within (Doubleday, Fall 2007), will all be participating in the Week celebration.
With the theme, ”What’s Your Big Idea? Take it On!” the EntrepreneurshipWeek USA initiative is designed to serve as an inspiration for young people to think creatively and to turn their ideas into action – whether that means starting a new business, developing an innovation for an existing company or solving a problem that makes society better. Official events are being planned in cities across the country, culminating in Washington, D.C, where the focus will be on the importance of policy to the nation’s entrepreneurs.
Additional names of VIPs and partners associated with EntrepreneurshipWeek USA are available at
www.entrepreneurshipweekusa.com.
EntrepreneurshipWeek USA is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and by government, not-for-profit organizations and businesses, including The New York Times and INC. magazine. Additionally, the House of Representatives noted the importance of entrepreneurship education by enacting a Resolution in support of a national entrepreneurship week.
“We are delighted with the leadership and expertise that Faith and all the other individuals and organizations bring to EntrepreneurshipWeek USA,” said Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation. “Educating our young people about entrepreneurship and reinforcing the value that entrepreneurs and innovators bring to our economy is critical to America’s long-term prosperity – more so now than ever before.”
For more information on events and activities across the country as well as how to engage young people to get involved in EntrepreneurshipWeek USA, please visit:
www.EntrepreneurshipWeekUSA.com.
For more information on Headsets.com, an Inc. 500 company renown for its World Class Customer Service and an established Winning Workplace, please visit
www.headsets.com.
