Endeavor Entrepreneur Network

Endeavor Entrepreneur Network

I’m in New York at the moment attending the Endeavor Annual Gala event. I have the benefit of attending talks by Barry Diller (IAC CEO), Scott Meyers (About.com CEO) and a host of other great speakers. It’s a 3 day conference - hence my time for other things, like blogging, is very restricted!

The Endeavor network is really a great network for entrepreneurs from “Emerging Markets”, although arguably, some of these markets have already emerged! I can only highly recommend the support we’ve received from Endeavor, which is a non-profit organisation.

Synthasite was fortunate enough to be one of the companies selected by MIT (Massachusetts Institute for Technology) to host a team of MBA interns who will work closely with us for the next 3 months and fly down to Cape Town in January to assist us with post-Beta testing. I had dinner with the team on Monday night, and I can honestly say that I’m thoroughly impressed by the calibre - but would you expect any less from MIT? I might add that there were more companies applying than interns available - so getting selected was seriously something special!

I was also privileged to speak to a class of students at MIT in Boston as well - and it was great to be able to share my experiences as an entrepreneur with them.

Also, through Endeavor, we also received an eMBA from Harvard who spent 3 months with us earlier this year, and he did a great job! Now I get 4 MBA’s - it’s going to be great having some extra resources - we’re very excited!

The bottom line is:

I can really encourage any and all emerging market entrepreneurs to at least apply to join Endeavor - the benefits are fantastic and it’s great being part of a support network. You need to be operating primarily in an emerging market - but check their website for more details.

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Comments On This Post

  1. shawn Says:
    November 13, 2007 at 12:18 am

    Vinny,

    I missed you this year at CJU. Had to sit it out. I’ll holler at you in 2008. I’m getting my gUaP right…:-)

  2. shawn Says:
    November 13, 2007 at 2:18 am

    Vinny,

    I missed you this year at CJU. Had to sit it out. I’ll holler at you in 2008. I’m getting my gUaP right…:-)

  3. casino guy Says:
    January 24, 2008 at 9:11 am

    i wonder wethere we could get a south african network going

  4. casino guy Says:
    January 24, 2008 at 11:11 am

    i wonder wethere we could get a south african network going

  5. shawn Says:
    January 24, 2008 at 11:51 am

    Do you mean a CJU network in South Africa?

    http://www.Drewryonline.net

  6. shawn Says:
    January 24, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    Do you mean a CJU network in South Africa?

    http://www.Drewryonline.net

  7. Jayson Says:
    February 7, 2008 at 5:39 am

    Sounds like becoming an Endeavor member has plenty of benefits and educational opportunities. Unfortunately, my industry is well established.

    What are some of the requirements?

  8. Vinny Lingham Says:
    February 7, 2008 at 5:42 am

    Hey Jason. It’s only for emerging markets - where are you based? Check out http://www.endeavor.org

  9. Jayson Says:
    February 7, 2008 at 5:45 am

    Thanks Vinny - I’ll check it out

  10. Jayson Says:
    February 7, 2008 at 7:39 am

    Sounds like becoming an Endeavor member has plenty of benefits and educational opportunities. Unfortunately, my industry is well established.

    What are some of the requirements?

  11. Vinny Lingham Says:
    February 7, 2008 at 7:42 am

    Hey Jason. It’s only for emerging markets - where are you based? Check out http://www.endeavor.org

  12. Jayson Says:
    February 7, 2008 at 7:45 am

    Thanks Vinny - I’ll check it out

  13. Colette Symanowitz Says:
    February 23, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    Hi Vinny,
    Do you think we could develop a similar initiative for SA MBA students? I’d be interested in finding out if you think there is potential to find such high-calibre MBA talent in SA. The reason I ask is that we’ve just launched http://www.MBAconnect.net, a community website for MBAs from all business schools around SA. We facilitate a whole lot of fantastic features for the MBA community and I thought this might be an interesting initiative to add.

    Thanks,

    Colette Symanowitz
    info@mbaconnect.co.za

  14. Colette Symanowitz Says:
    February 23, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    Hi Vinny,
    Do you think we could develop a similar initiative for SA MBA students? I’d be interested in finding out if you think there is potential to find such high-calibre MBA talent in SA. The reason I ask is that we’ve just launched http://www.MBAconnect.net, a community website for MBAs from all business schools around SA. We facilitate a whole lot of fantastic features for the MBA community and I thought this might be an interesting initiative to add.

    Thanks,

    Colette Symanowitz
    info@mbaconnect.co.za

  15. MSN hacken Says:
    March 25, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    @ Colette Symanowitz

    I think it could be. But the website MBA connect is really worth a lot of money. Keep up the good work!

  16. MSN hacken Says:
    March 25, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    @ Colette Symanowitz

    I think it could be. But the website MBA connect is really worth a lot of money. Keep up the good work!

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