Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization -- uSphere speaks at their National Conference

Want to study entrepreneurship in college? Start, maybe, with a few of the schools who sent representatives to CEO -- Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization -- and their annual conference, held this weekend in Chicago. (Which is home of the President-Elect. We need to throw that in.)

Here's a hypothesis: schools that send kids to this conference are likely to have entrepreneurship as part of the mix on campus.

So, a not-so-scientific listing of schools who represented:

Bradley. Great idea for their students to all wear red shirts.
Santa Clara University. In the Valley, so good location for startups.
TCU. Clever purple shirts that said "tcuceo" on them.
IIT. Illinois Institute of Technology. Got to give them props -- they were everywhere and they were the ones who got us on the dias. (Well, them AND GrubHub.)
Northern Kentucky. They actually exhibited, and their (garish) black-and-yellow shirts meant they stood out.

I've left a few more schools out, too, and invite you to comment if you were there...

BTW - Rather than bore you with the details of the uSphere speech at the CEO conference yesterday, here's a link to my notes.

MOO. It can help U. (Or, another way to keep your name in front of colleges)

One of my personal favorite startups is a company called MOO.

The Moo Minicards were the belles of the ball at the OACAC conference. (Or maybe it's just that I have cute kids.)

But here's why I'm telling you about it: their Minicards would REALLY be cool if used at college fairs. BY STUDENTS.

Here's how it works:

(1) Upload a picture of you doing something that shows what makes you tick. Or put a clever image that you've designed. Or do something else -- heck, they're your cards, people. Try this:











(2) Then, on the back, write something clever about yourself:

"Here's me, with three friends, and we've just left a service project in Appalachia. Oh and I have a 4.0 at my school, and I'm on the basketball team, and I really want to be a research scientist."

(3) Put contact info that's just this simple:

"I'm David V., visit me at www.usphere.com/davidv." You'd of course use your U Sphere username.

That last part will give them access to your profile -- but only if they're either a college admissions person or YOUR high school counselor.

You're all set. Order a bunch of these just in time for the college fair circuit, where you can wow the admissions folks, show that you're cutting edge, and use environmentally sound principles in the process. (As only MOO would.)

(And just when I get done singing their praises in Vancouver -- where U Sphere handed out a few hundred cute little cards, with my kids' pics on the back and our contact info on the front -- they change the game again. With stickers. We'll cross that bridge later.)