Name: Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off in KC on Tuesday
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Description: Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off in Kansas City, Missouri, on Tuesday, including a vendor fair displaying local businesses.

Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off in Kansas City, Missouri, on Tuesday, including a vendor fair displaying local businesses.

Kansas City

Global Entrepreneurship Week has started in Kansas City, offering four days of free resources, workshops, and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs. The event is open to anyone who registers online and is hosted primarily at Union Station, with some additional offsite activities.

Participants can attend educational sessions on topics such as business finances, leveraging social media, and software development. Local business owners, including Latoya Searles of Someday Sunday, are featured as speakers and vendors, providing attendees with opportunities to learn from and connect with experienced entrepreneurs.

Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off in KC on Tuesday

We're falling for you. 5 35 today kicks off global and entrepreneurship week in Kansas City. For the next four days, you can easily access resources to be a successful entrepreneur. Kshb 41 news reporter Claire Bradshaw joins us live from Union Station this morning with this story. Clear. Good morning. People have likely at once had an idea that they thought could start their own business. But there's a big gap between. I think I could probably do this and actually putting some effort behind this and getting some help to do it. Mhm. Yeah. Hey, good morning taylor. And that's exactly what this week is for. So whether you just have that idea floating around in your head right now where you're actively pursuing it, there are some things that could potentially be really helpful for you this week. So global entrepreneurship week, it starts today, goes throughout the week. It is free to those who register online and offers educating workshops, offsite events for small businesses, a vendor fair where you can see people's businesses up close touch their products. So I spoke with the toy of Searles. She's a small business owner of the body care brand someday sunday. She started this back in january 2024 looking for work life balance after having her son. She's speaking at GWKC this week and is going to be at that vendor fair. So Searle said this week is her chance to present in front of everyone and that can really boost her business. So I'll be pitching on Wednesday and then I have a table on thursday and so it's just a really cool opportunity for the people to see me on stage and then be able to experience the products that I have. I really feel like you have nothing to lose and that is the thing about GW is that it doesn't cost anything. It's completely free and you have nothing to lose. You can come out, you can build connections. So if you want to be part of general or global entrepreneurship week this week, all you need to do is go to the website. We're going to put up on your screen right now and register again. You guys, this is free. It's going to be here at Union Station with some offsite events, but it's GWKC.com back to you, taylor. So clear, obviously someone watching this with that idea floating around, maybe wondering, can I really get anything out of this? What are some of the classes, the workshops that are available here to help these people? Right. And I just pulled some of the first ones I saw on the schedule from this morning. So just today before lunch, entrepreneur finances 101, how tiktok can grow your business, build better software and avoiding that founders syndrome trap. And that's all happening before 11 30 today, taylor. So many more events throughout the week. And when you say tiktok, that is, I'm not familiar with. Can't help you. There's like, I don't have time to teach you about tiktok. This morning, taylor. Thank you very much. Clear.

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