Victor Hwang, vice president of entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, on looking Beyond Silicon Valley: The Future of Entrepreneurship. Presentation delivered at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Johannesburg (March 2017).

1. Beyond Silicon Valley:
The Future of Eship
Victor W. Hwang, Kauffman Foundation
Global Entrepreneurship Congress
March 14, 2017

2. Why do you do what you do?

6. “The traditional methods of encouraging
entrepreneurship are not producing desired
results…” – Kauffman Foundation

7. Yesterday
More capital
More technology
More technical training
More high-growth startups
More policy incentives

8. + Now
More connectivity
More trust
More immersive learning
More diversity
More community building

9. But why?

10. Individuals
Teams
Startups
Growing Companies
Mature Companies
Institutions

11. People + Culture = Everything
P + C = E

12. So what is Kauffman’s strategy?

13. #1. Entrepreneurial learning.

14. #2. Build ecosystems.

15. #3. Level the playing field.
Photo by Thomas Ming

16. Why do you do what you do?
#WDYDWYD
#GEC2017

17. We fight to empower
the makers, the doers, the dreamers
to create their own destinies
and achieve uncommon things.

18. Photo: Trevor Samson / World Bank;
Photo ID: TS15-31 World Bank