The entrepreneurship message – acting on an idea to create value through a business, a social good or an artistic endeavor – is resonating far and wide on the UW-Madison campus. We’d like your help in promoting another, exciting, campus-wide entrepreneurship event for our students as part of the university’s grant from the Kauffman Foundation.

On Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 6pm in the Memorial Union (2^nd floor Lounge), we will host a Money, Marketing and Mentors panel of successful entrepreneurs designed to energize our UW students. The “conversation” is structured to be informal and to encourage networking and exchange of ideas. Our overall theme remains ” Make Your Passion Your Profession,” and we’ll have another diverse, exciting panel of alumni/local entrepreneurs who will share their experiences about how money, marketing and mentors helped them make their passion their profession!

We’ll also have representatives from entrepreneurship-related student organizations and campus programs, plus, of course, food, soda, and door prizes. This event is free and is open to all UW students.

As with last year’s successful Wiscontrepreneur activities, we need your help in getting the word out – please forward the attached flyer to any students or student organizations you think might be interested, or any faculty or student services staff that might be willing to pass along the information.

More information about the Oct. 2 Money, Marketing and Mentors panel, and other entrepreneurial activities, is available at www.wiscontrepreneur.org/

Stick it to the Man with your Humor and Wit!

CreditCovers.com has teamed up with the Internet’s funniest website, Zug.com, to bring you the World’s Funniest Credit Card Contest!

Entry is easy:

• Post your ideas (not actual artwork) on the Zug.com message board beginning Sept. 12, 2007 through Sept. 21, 2007, and rate each others’ suggestions along the way.

• The Top 10-rated ideas will become finalists.

• Zug.com editors will choose three winning design ideas, which will then be created by resident Zug.com artist Al Natanagara.

• The winning designs will be produced by CreditCovers.com in limited runs of each.

• Contest winners will receive the standard artist commission on each CreditCover sold with their design.

• The Top 10 finalists will receive a gift certificate for a free CreditCover from the CreditCovers.com catalogue.

For more contest details visit Zug.com or CreditCovers.com.

CreditCovers allow for the easy, yet stylish customization of credit cards. With designs by some of the world’s hottest artists, CreditCovers are simple “skins” that you can apply in a matter of seconds to credit, check, ATM, and debit cards.

Visit CreditCovers.com for more information on how to Stick it to the Man!

Custom CreditCovers Feature School Colors and Logo

Earlier this month, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania became the first major purchaser of custom CreditCovers, flashy skins that, when slapped on bank cards, add personal flare and a lot to talk about.

The university ordered more than 1,000 CreditCovers, which will be sold at campus bookstores. The deal comes at a time when CreditCovers inventor and CEO, Anthony David Adams, has been discussing the marketing and branding potential of CreditCovers with several large companies and ad agencies.

“What CreditCovers do, essentially, is turn credit and debit cards into mini-billboards,” says Adams, who co-founded the company in January. Until now, CreditCovers have been primarily sold as a fashion accessory in retail outlets and online through the company’s website. “They allow companies to create armies of brand evangelists.”

Every time a user makes a purchase – at a cool club, at dinner with friends or a hip coffee shop, they flash a message, imprinting a brand and starting conversations about it several times a day. This allows organizations to rapidly deploy their message in any market and have that message spread with real customers rather than hired reps.

“Those are the people I want flashing my clients’ message to other people several times a day,” says the representative of an ad agency currently in talks with CreditCovers. “If I’m producing the next Spider-Man movie, I want Spider-Man on every single credit card. It’s cheap, and a no-brainer.”

Incidentally, Adams graduated from Edinboro in 2003 with a Bachelor’s in Psychology. He is donating 30 percent of the proceeds from the deal back to his alum.