The founding Street Entrepreneurs welcome you to their webpage, courtesy of those nice people at the World Entrepreneur Games.

Street Entrepreneurs 11 - Going, going, going virtual.
 

Fellow Street Entrepreneurs,

The next event will be held on Wednesday, May 4 2011 in Citizen M hotel, corner of Hope Street and Renfrew Street.  Please be there for a 6pm start; we'll finish at 7pm.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

The Street Entrepreneurs seek to pass on all that they have learned through a series of one-hour workshops.  These were ad hoc in early 2010, and have now settled into a programme of one workshop per month from now until December 2011.  Each will be held on a Wednesday evening, typically the first Wednesday of each month, in Glasgow.  Skype us, with the latest version, to join in the debate.

Email us for information regarding the up-and-coming workshops,if you can't find enough information on this page.  Alternatively, ask around your entrepreneurial friends, as they might know something you don't!  Either way, the Street Entrepreneurs would like to speak with you at one of our workshops, so that we can get to know you, so you can get to know us, and so that we can start sharing what we know to build a better future for us all.

As  the World Entrepreneur Games system goes online and accelerates towards the first all-invitational medals final in 2014, the Street Entrepreneurs will be helping to shape the games.  If you want to help out, sponsor, or compete - and you want to improve your chances of winning your way through to the medals - then the Street Entrepreneurs can help you.

Word.

Steve Jobs aside, no one’s quite as sharp as they think.  So, you can run into and fall over life’s hurdles as you dash for your grave, or you can employ various tricks and dodges to allow your bruises and scars to be of matters interesting, rather than those gained from running and learning how to run businesses.

Bruce and I aren’t quite as sharp as we’d hoped we’d be some 30 years ago, but we’re here, we’re still daen’ it, and we’ve headed back out onto the street from whence we came to try and pass on our learnings to the next generations of entrepreneurs at street level: Street Entrepreneurs.

We’ve enough bruises, scars and war-wounds for a platoon of entrepreneurs, but we’re not here to tell war stories or to show the scars we’ve collected.  We’re here as life-long learners to pass on what we’ve learned so that others don’t have to learn the hard way, speeding you to go on and do your own thing.   

On the street.

On an almost daily business we bump into very smart and very interesting people, on good days sometimes both.  In conversations with baristas, designers, executives, lawyers, street vendors, shopkeepers, and both under and postgraduates and we found a couple of common threads, particularly in those who were formally educated.  There are gaps in knowledge for what Bruce and I consider and some of the most basic, and therefore the most vital business skills.  As engineers we’d be right to consider these as spark-gaps, but they are acting as insulators rather than generators of new concepts, ideas, products and services.  So, we took on the task of bridging or closing these gaps, or doing what we can to reduce them to the point where they start the entrepreneurial sparks.  In true entrepreneurial spirit, we’re not tackling this conventionally, we’re doing this in many ways - concurrently!

You’ll find Street Entrepreneurs in every walk of life and at every age. On the premise that you can’t fully understand what you’ve learned until you try to teach it, we’re building a chain of learning: helping schoolchildren entering secondary education on one side of us, and those in their third and fourth lives on the other, through a programme of challenges, classes, mentoring sessions, one-to-one talks and live, open meets.  So there’s and link in the chain for entrepreneurs new and old, inexperienced and tired alike to grab onto, for a day, a week, a month, a year, a decade, a lifetime or lifetimes.

Next!

We’ve created several new businesses to accompany the programme.  One is a huge social entrepreneurship venture, VICTOR, which will set the benchmark for ventures to come.  Another, WEG, is the first cornerstone of a new generation of entrepreneurship learning.  Following quickly behind will be a learning engine and online marketplace for intellectual property, and the fourth cornerstone will be the sites themselves, which act as a repository for learnings; both yours and ours - we only generated the spark!

Imitate.  Innovate.  Be a Street Entrepreneur!