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Poppy King comes to Michigan Tech

Entrepreneur and Author Poppy King will be on campus speaking today. At the age of 18 Poppy started her own brand of lipstick that has grown it into a multi-million dollar company. She has authored a book called “Lessons of a Lipstick Queen” that takes you through her journey.

Check out Poppy on campus at the following Times:

• 10am, EERC B45, Presentation and questions

• 12:30pm, Library, Book reading and signing

• 3:30pm, DOW 641, Presentation and questions

The Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour (brought to campus by the Entrepreneurs Club) will bring three young entrepreneurs who made it big by the age of 25. A sneak preview about each speaker is below! Stop by the MUB Ballroom A on Monday, November 16 to hear and meet these successful entrepreneurs!

Michael Simmons

Michael Simmons

Michael Simmons is a young, serial, award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author of The Student Success Manifesto, and national keynote speaker to over 30,000 individuals.

Michael’s company, Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour, brings the country’s top young entrepreneurs to college campuses to spread the entrepreneurial mindset. Started in fall 2006, the tour has visited over 100 schools nation-wide and has received the Innovation Award from the National Association of Development Organizations and the Program of the Year award from Northern Michigan University. More can be learned at http://www.extremetour.org.

Michael co-founded his first business, Princeton WebSolutions (PWS), when he was sixteen years old. PWS was later rated the #1 youth-run web development company in the nation by Youngbiz Magazine. In addition, Michael has been the winner of three entrepreneur of the year awards from the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Fleet, and the National Coalition for Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship. He and his company have been featured in five books and on the AOL Home Page, USA Today, Inc. Magazine, ABC, NBC, and CBS. Finally, in 2006, Michael was named by Business Week as one of the Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25.

Anthony Adams

Anthony Adams

Anthony David Adams, 28, is an award winning American inventor and entrepreneur. Most recently, Anthony made headlines for his salacious education blog, DetentionSlip.org, which at just one year old was named one of the Top 25 Blogs of 2009 by Time Magazine.

In addition to DetentionSlip, Anthony serves as CEO of CreditCovers: skins for credit cards — an angel funded company based on a product he invented, patented, and developed.

You may have seen him and his companies on FoxNews, Time Magazine, The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Daily Candy, Glamour, Readers Digest, ABC, NBC, Cool Hunting, or 500+ other media outlets.

Anthony has consulted on innovation, creativity, branding and marketing for The United Nations, BMW, SC Johnson Wax, Inventibles, The Salvation Army, Bisnow Media Group, The Summit Series and others.

Previous to his work in the private sector, Anthony was executive director and lead lobbyist at United Council, a 120,000 member student organizing non-profit. He holds a Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005), and a Bachelors in Psychology from Edinboro University (2003).

Anthony lives in lower Manhattan and enjoys ultimate frisbee, chess, skydiving, vegan food, computer programming, rubiks cubes, running and working out with his Broadway star brother, Nick Adams.

Brendan Ciecko

Brendan Ciecko

Brendan Ciecko, 21, is the founder and CEO of Ten Minute Media, a company that specializes in digital media and creative services for the music entertainment industry. Ciecko started producing websites for emerging rock bands at the early age of 12 and quickly transformed his talents into a thriving business. Since its official establishment in 2003, Ten Minute Media has acquired an impressive and flourishing list of major clients including, Warner, Universal, Sony Music, Capitol Records and some of the biggest names in entertainment.

With such a striking repertoire, Ciecko has gained the attention of the national press. In October of 2008, Ciecko appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine in the feature article, “Cool, Determined, Under 30.” He has also appeared in Entrepreneur Magazine, Boston Globe, PC Magazine, FastCompany, NPR and was a national finalist of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.

Behind Ciecko’s business persona there exists an artistic and musical essence, a part of Ciecko that takes most pride in having worked with music icons, Mick Jagger, Natalie Cole, Katy Perry, and Lenny Kravitz.

Ciecko is an advocate in the efforts to revitalize historic downtown Holyoke, a post-industrial city in MA. He also sits on the Massachusetts “It’s All Here” Advisory Board.

Outside the office, Ciecko is an avid traveler, architecture geek, and lover of music and art.

Entrepreneurship Week 2009 is approaching FAST!

Monday, November 16^th 3:00pm – 7:00pm, MUB Ballroom A

Extreme Entrepreneurship Bus

Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour - Hear from 3 young entrepreneurs that have made it big before the age of 30 tell their story, participate in interactive workshops, help spark entrepreneurship in the Copper Country, have chances to win prizes! Don’t worry if you can’t be there for the entire event or for the start come and join in when you can. You can RSVP for the event at

http://www.journeypage.com/events/miteun/ , however RSVP is not required to attend. Help make this the largest Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour in the past 3 years at Michigan Tech.

Tuesday, November 17^th 5:30pm, DOW 641

Elevator Pitch Competition – Come hear the business idea pitches from the students of Michigan Tech and Finlandia at the 3^rd Annual Elevator Pitch Competition. Students will be pitching their ideas for a chance to win cash prizes. Students interested in competing visit http://www.centile.mtu.edu/elevator_pitch.html for instructions on how to enter, deadline is October 30^th.

Wednesday, November 18^th 10am in EERC B45, and again at 3:30pm in DOW 642

Entrepreneur and Author Poppy King will be on campus speaking. At the age of 18 Poppy started her own brand of lipstick that has grown it into a multi-million dollar company. She has authored a book called “Lessons of a Lipstick Queen” that takes you through her journey.

The events are sponsored by the Entrepreneurs Club, the School of Business and Economics, the Institute for Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, with financial support from the Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Funding is also provided by Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Grant Funding, and the University Student Government.

The Entrepreneurship Club of Michigan Tech is a student organization in the School of Business and Economics. The club is comprised of a mixture of students in all majors with the same entrepreneurial spirit.

More information on the Entrepreneurs Club.

Owners of KBC with Entrepreneurs Club

Owners of the Keweenaw Brewing Company, a microbrewery that resides in downtown Houghton,  Dick Gray and Paul Boissevain talked about their business plan, strategy, and goals with about 30 students and community members  during a question and answer session last week.

Gray and Boissevain discussed their motivation behind starting a brewery and the challenges they faced. “We wanted to drink good beer and we didn’t expect to grow as fast as we have. Now our challenges lie in distribution and we don’t have a written plan for how to get where we want to be, we’re taking it day by day.” said Boissevain.

This event was sponsored by the Entrepreneurs Club of Michigan Tech.

Ron Gettelfinger

The School of Business and Economics welcomes Ron Gettelfinger, UAW President, via web conference for a discussion on Monday, November 9th, at 11am in EERC B45.

The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) is one of the largest and most diverse unions in North America, with members in virtually every sector of the economy.

UAW-represented workplaces range from multinational corporations, small manufacturers and state and local governments to colleges and universities, hospitals and private non-profit organizations.

Please join us as we discuss health care issues, policy, and the fate of the big three with one of the nations biggest advocates for national single-payer health care.

For more information, review the New York Times public profile on Ron Gettlefinger.

The following bio is taken from UAW.org website.

About Ron Gettelfinger
Ron Gettelfinger was elected to a second term as president of the UAW on June 14, 2006, at the UAW’s 34th Constitutional Convention in Las Vegas. He was first elected to the union’s top leadership post at the 33rd Constitutional Convention in 2002.

Gettelfinger is an outspoken advocate for national single-payer health care that would make health care accessible and affordable for every man, woman and child in the United States. In January 2006, he called for a “Marshall Plan” to renew America’s industrial base through incentives to manufacture energy-saving advanced technology vehicles and their key components in the United States. Under Gettelfinger’s leadership, the UAW has continued its fight for fair trade agreements that include provisions for workers’ rights and environmental provisions; and the union has loudly criticized the corporate global chase for the lowest wage which creates a race to the bottom that no workers, in any country, can win.

For six years he served as the elected director of UAW Region 3, which represents UAW members in Indiana and Kentucky, before being elected a UAW vice president in 1998. A member of UAW Local 862 since 1964, Gettelfinger is proud to be called a chassis line repairman. The workers at Ford’s Louisville Assembly plant elected Gettelfinger to represent them as committeeperson, bargaining chair and president.

Ron is a graduate of Indiana University. He and his wife, Judy, are the proud parents of two adult children, and they also have four grandchildren.