The Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) is pleased to announce that the Global Entrepreneurship Institute (GEI) will award TIC Americas 2008 Winners with three months of online mentoring.

Understanding how challenging the transition from the idea to the implementation of businesses, the YABT and GEI, joined efforts and created a partnership that will provide the winners access to the Online Mentoring Program. This initiative will contribute valuable real-world knowledge, networking contacts, and fresh ideas to the seven TIC Americas' winner teams.

With this online mentoring program, teams will receive critical feedback and guidance on a regular basis. Mentors will empower teams with the confidence, knowledge, and the tools they need to grow their businesses. Each team will have online access to a private workspace where they can visit and work one-on-one with their online mentor. In the private workspace teams will have access to structured educational content and lesson plans that focus on the most important business drivers to entrepreneurial success. Consequently TIC Americas' awardees will learn skills to make themselves better entrepreneurs.

Founded in 1998, the Global Entrepreneurship Institute (GEI) is a non-profit 501(c) 3 educational organization with the specific mission of advancing studies on entrepreneurship around the world. GEI believes that entrepreneurship is the link between inventors, innovation, and economic growth. GEI have helped entrepreneurs raise more than $100 million and create companies that are worth hundred of millions of dollars.

More Comprehensive details about the Online Mentoring Program can be found at: http://blog.gcase.org/online-mentor

Javiera Córdova
Program Officer
Young Americas Business Trust