High-Impact Entrepreneurship

In a recent article article on Forbes.com, “Where Silicon Valley Meets Emerging Market Entrepreneurs,” Elmira Bayrasli discusses the Endeavor Entrepreneur Summit taking place this week in Silicon Valley. Including thoughts from Endeavor Entrepreneurs Fatih İşbecer, Marc Dfouni, Nemr Nicholas Badine, Hind and Nadia Wassef, Wences Casares, and Endeavor CEO and Co-Founder Linda Rottenberg, the article highlights the role of Endeavor in supporting emerging market entrepreneurs and catalyzing investment communities.

The article quotes Egyptian entrepreneur Nadia Wassef, who in the midst of the country’s revolution and unrest, “likens the Endeavor Summit to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. ‘It is a place where you can play around with ideas, experiment, and renew your drive.’”

As Elmira points out, “It is also a place they’re looking forward to connecting with the world’s greatest business and entrepreneurial minds. With keynotes from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and LinkedIn founder (and Endeavor board member) Reid Hoffman, along with insights from top names from Google, Dell, Kleiner Perkins, Ning, and IBM – including Watson himself, Endeavor’s summit is a gathering of entrepreneurship and venture capital’s best.”

As more than 400 participants are currently gathering in San Francisco for the Summit which will begin tomorrow, there is much excitement and anticipation for the exchange of ideas. While the entrepreneurs look forward to guidance from seasoned start-up gurus, Fatih İşbecer adds, “I’m also looking forward for them to hear about what’s going on in Turkey.” He notes that it used to be that Turkish entrepreneurs, like those throughout emerging markets, could only learn from American talent. “Now they want to learn from us.”