Everybody’s a Bloody Entrepreneur! Or are they? :: Vote for GIT’s SXSW Panel, Please!
Yes, it’s that time of year again — To vote for your favorite panels (& favorite organizations that put them together! {hint, hint} ) and this coming year’s will be a great one for Girls in Tech. The topic: Entrepreneur-ism. The panelists: Extraordinary. We’re very excited about it, as entrepreneurs are some of our favorite people, and a strong core of our membership base here at Girls in Tech. So, without further ado, we’d like to unveil it here & ask for your support:
Interactive 2012 Panel: Everybody’s a Bloody Entrepreneur! Or are they?
There was an article – or 100 – the other day that said something about entrepreneurs being…The life blood of society! The new drivers of our economy! The largest employers of our citizens! The solution to our problems! And what about all the LinkedIn profiles stating “Entrepreneur” as a title? But are all these “entrepreneurs” really entrepreneurs? We’ll be hashing through what entrepreneurship really means, what a startup really is, and what innovation 
really makes a difference on society and the economy, (What is “making a difference” anyway?). Our panel will be a group of diverse “entrepreneurs” – from high-growth speedups, as described by Startup America, to social entrepreneurs who might not provide huge financial returns but contribute in other ways. And we’ll be talking about the similarities and differences between everyone’s idea of their own Entrepreneurship. It’s a frank discussion on some of the realities and frustrations surrounding this debate.
The panel will address the following questions:
- What does being an entrepreneur really mean? What are some key characteristics of an entrepreneur?
- When does your start-up actually start making a significant impact? And what does impact mean?
- What are the some ways you get from being an “Entrepreneur” to being an Entrepreneur?
- How do entrepreneurs empower organic entrepreneurship values throughout their organizations?
- How do entrepreneurs themselves go through the process of defining their success?
Our Esteemed Panelists
- Adriana Gascoigne ‐ Girls in Tech
- Terry Chase Hazell ‐ RampCorp
- Alexis Maybank ‐ Gilt Groupe
- Nancy Spears ‐ genConnect
So please, as they say: Vote early, and vote often! …Or pass it on, anyway. Let all your friends and contacts know about this enlightening, enriching panel by these fine women in tech! Vote here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/11363
Thanks to each one of you, in advance, for all your support! See all ya’ll in Austin!
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