Entrepreneurs, students, and supporters celebrated courage and innovation at the 21st Annual Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy (SEA) Showcase Event.  The sold-out event held on Tuesday at the Sacramento State Alumni Center recognized the recent accomplishments of SEA students. SEA selects budding and future entrepreneurs to participate in their annual entrepreneurship program and business plan competition.  Classmates learn about creating a business from successful Sacramento entrepreneurs. They form teams, develop a business plan, present their plan to business leaders in the region, and develop a trade-show like booth at the Showcase event. The program ends with a formal graduation in

This upcoming Monday, November 15, 2010 a very special guest will be visiting Sacramento State for Global Entrepreneurship Week, Sacramento. The Co-Founder of Sacramento Press Ben Ilfeld! If you don’t know much about Mr. Ilfeld or you’ve always wanted to know how Sacramento Press got started maybe you should come? It’s free and open to all! A little bit of Mr. Ben Ilfeld’s biography, Ben Ilfeld co-founded Sacramento Press and formed a hyperlocal media coalition called Sacramento Local Online Advertising Network. Ben focuses on operations and sets the vision and operational processes for the online media outlet. Ben defines the business and technology road map for the organization and w

Global Entrepreneurship Week debuted in Sacramento on Monday. Former Kings player Bobby Jackson was among nearly 50 entrepreneurs at ARCO Arena for "Mentoring Equals Millions," featuring a panel of owners of multimillion-dollar businesses each telling how a mentor helped him reach success. After the event, speakers and GEW organizers gathered at Capsity Offices, 2957 3rd Ave., for a networking lunch. GEW will feature 10 more speakers in Sacramento throughout the week, said Ricardo Robles, Capsity Offices co-founder, and regional coordinator for GEW. Robles also mentioned that more than 87 countries around the world will participate in the event, which was begun last year by the Ewing Mar

From November 16-22, 77 countries across six continents are coming together to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week. This is an initiative to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. To think big. To turn their ideas into reality. To make their mark. Global Entrepreneurship Week, Sacramento, is an initiative to inspire young people in this region to embrace entrepreneurship and to connect regional businesses. For the second year, Global Entrepreneurship Week is coming to Sacramento and is expected to reach thousands in the region. Global Entrepreneurship Week, Sacramento, will include the following: Monday: The Kick-Off – featured keynote speakers Sheri

Lately I've been feeling like there has been more entrepreneurial action than ever before. Maybe it's because Global Entrepreneurship Week is cohttp://www.sacramentopress.com/uploads/images/prod/e05185ac8270454b84ffc23ddb26ab15_t.jpgming up in less than 2 months -- and we're all just super excited about it; or maybe it is because we slowly see Sacramento really shining to become a more entrepreneurial city! In the last few years the growth of Sacramento has been outrageous! We, the community of Sacramento, are all just excited to be apart of it as well as a manufacture of that growth. An entrepreneur's best friend comes in all sorts of ways that looks to the usual person like a terrible s