Famous Entrepreneur Trading Cards – Checklist Released, New Cards Added!

Famous Entrepreneur Trading Cards Launch In Support Of Kiva Charity

33 Top Business Bloggers Team Up To Unveil “Entrepreneur Heroes” Series
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Heroes/

EvanCarmichael.com has partnered up with bloggers Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki, Darren Rowse, Tim Ferriss, Chris Brogan, Tom Peters, and others to create a line of famous entrepreneur trading cards called “Entrepreneur Heroes” – the profits from the sale of the cards go to support entrepreneurs in Africa through Kiva, a micro-financing non-profit organization. So far over 825 new business owners in Africa have been helped!

Get the Ultimate Entrepreneur Collector’s Item

The Entrepreneur Heroes trading cards are instant collectibles. Each of our top 33 business bloggers were asked to pick who their favorite famous entrepreneurs were and gave reasons why. A trading card was then created for each entrepreneur chosen and includes an artistic picture on the front, an inspirational quote on the back, a true story / fun fact about the entrepreneur and other personal information. If you’ve ever collected cards of your favorite sports stars, the Entrepreneur Heroes trading card series gives you a chance to collect your favorite business founders from Steve Jobs to Richard Branson to Benjamin Franklin.

Raise Entrepreneurship Awareness

Just like today’s youth look up to sports, music, and movie stars a goal of the Entrepreneur Heroes trading cards is to inspire the next generation to become entrepreneurs and view starting their own business as an empowering adventure that can help them reach their potential and change the world for the better. To this end EvanCarmichael.com has partnered with Junior Achievement a global leader in youth financial literacy, to use the Entrepreneur Heroes trading cards to raise awareness in business among our young students who on the verge of starting their professional lives.

Support a Good Cause

Profits from the sale of the cards will go to support entrepreneurs in Africa through Kiva and so far over 825 new business owners in Africa have been helped through our efforts. Kiva began in 2005 as a micro-finance project of Matt and Jessica Flannery. Their work has grown into an organization which achieved a repayment rate of 98.27% with over $68 million in completed loan terms helping real individual entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurial spirit is not confined within Silicon Valley , but is also very strong among the global poor, and stories have a powerful way of connecting people across the world to help.

Who is Involved: Our Checklist

Here is a list of the famous entrepreneurs we are profiling, the companies they founded, and the bloggers who selected them.

# / Famous Entrepreneur / Blogger

1 / A.P. Giannini (Bank of America ) / Evan Carmichael (evancarmichael.com)

2 / Steve Jobs (Apple) / Guy Kawasaki (guykawasaki.com)

3 / Seth Godin (SethGodin.com) / Darren Rowse (problogger.net)

4 / Vince McMahon (WWE) / Gary Vaynerchuk (garyvaynerchuk.com)

5 / Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) / John Chow (johnchow.com)

6 / Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines) / John Jantsch (ducttapemarketing.com)

7 / Terry Matthews (Mitel) / Paul Kedrosky (paul.kedrosky.com)

8 / Tony Hsieh (Zappos) / Jeremiah Owyang (web-strategist.com)

9 / Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com) / Andy Beal (andybeal.com)

10 / Martha Stewart (MSLO) / Anita Campbell (smallbiztrends.com)

11 / Milton Hershey (Hershey Company) / Yaro Starak (entrepreneurs-journey.com)

12 / Craig Newmark (Craigslist) / Leo Babauta (zenhabits.com)

13 / Bill Gates (Microsoft) / Tim Ferriss (fourhourworkweek.com)

14 / William Gaines (Mad Magazine) / Mark Frauenfelder (boingboing.net)

15 / Peggy Short / Jane Saunders (Body Shop) / Danny Sullivan (searchengineland.com)

16 / Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank) / Robert Scoble (scobleizer.com)

17 / Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania Gazette) / Steve Rubel (steverubel.com)

18 / Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post) / Tara Hunt (horsepigcow.com)

19 / Jeff Hawkins (Palm) / Dylan Tweney (wired.com)

20 / Guy Kawasaki (Alltop) / Chris Pirillo (lockergnome.com)

21 / Duncan Hines (Ducan Hines) / Seth Godin (sethgodin.com)

22 / Ray Kurzweil (Kurzweil AI.net) / Adam Pash (lifehacker.com)

23 / Reed Hastings (Netflix) / Rand Fishkin (seomoz.org)

24 / Howard Rheingold (Rheingold Associates) / B.L. Ochman (whatsnextblog.com)

25 / Steve Wozniak (Apple) / Jeremy Zawodny (zawodny.com)

26 / Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library) / Frank Gruber (somewhatfrank.com)

27 / Richard Branson (Virgin) / Chris Brogan (chrisbrogan.com)

28 / Walt Disney (Walt Disney Company) / Brian Solis (future-works.com)

29 / S. Truett Cathy (Chick-fil-A) / Jennifer Laycock (searchengineguide.com)

30 / Ev Williams / Biz Stone (Twitter) / Pete Cashmore (mashable.com)

31 / Wendy Kopp (Teach For America) / Tom Peters (tompeters.com)

32 / Checklist Front – Richard Branson / Michael Dunlop (incomediary.com)

32 / Checklist Back – Ray Kurzweil / Wil Schroter (wilschroter.com)

Contests, Promotions, and More Information

You can learn more about the Entrepreneur Heroes trading card series at: http://www.evancarmichael.com/Heroes/ . EvanCarmichael.com is raffling off an authentic Steve Wozniak signed baseball and limited edition hologram cards of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as well as a 20% off discounted rate for anyone interested in pre-ordering packs.

Questions or Comments?

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