UPDATE: 5 bonus winners!! Five folks have won a free download of Secrets from Silicon Valley featuring Reid Hoffman, Tim Ferriss, Guy Kawasaki –all who have profoundly influenced my career– plus many other great business minds. Congrats to:
Nelson Mouellic
Bob Fisher
Brian Bulemore
Rodrigo Figueras
Tony DiMaggio
Winners: email production@chasejarvis.com to claim your prize.
AND… Tune in LIVE RIGHT NOW. Guy Kawasaki is coming up next.
UPDATE: Huge thanks to the 500 or so of you who took the time to submit your amazing stories in entry — and for a contest that just ran for a few hours. The winner is Jose Rosado. I’ll be flying Jose a few thousand miles, but it’ll be worth it. And he’s promised to pay it forward. ALSO: watch this space/blog post and my twitter facebook G+ as over the next 2 days we will be awarding Runner Up Prizes — the $99 dollar video download (or streaming) of the entire event — to several of you who entered. HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE!!
This is another one of those gigs where I pinch myself – getting to work alongside some of the best creative entrepreneurs in the world – AND… Here’s a kicker: I want you and a friend to join me for FREE.
For one lucky winner + friend, I’ll pick up airfare, a room for 2 nights and 2 VIP tickets to attend the entire 2-day event below… plus time for us to hang out and drink beer together when I’m not MC’ing the event… The event starts TOMORROW! PLUS WE’RE LIVE STREAMING THE ENTIRE EVENT. Read on for details + how to enter…
Transform your business with Secrets from Silicon Valley.
This event is more than a year in the works, thousands of hours of work from some very talented people, and more than a few sleepless nights on my own part. We are opening our San Francisco based creativeLIVE studio TOMORROW and the very first broadcast is one you don’t want to miss. I’ll be hosting and it’s going to deliver a punch of insider, unprecedented information from some of the world’s smartest people.
Just as Hollywood implies celebrity, Silicon Valley is synonymous with creative innovation. Attracting the greatest business minds in the world, SV is the world’s startup epicenter. This broadcast offers you direct access to the pioneering minds behind this powerful community. Whether your business is just you or employs fifty people, you’ll learn how to survive, grow, and thrive directly from entrepreneurs who have done it. Do you want to learn from LinkedIn’s founder Reid Hoffman and ask about his secrets to success? Tim Ferriss? Guy Kawasaki? Chris Guillebeau? You’ll hear from them and many more. I know I’ve learned a thing or two from these people I call friends, but knowing what I know about how valuable their secrets have been, I would have given a limb to be able to ask them questions years ago.
If you win the contest below, you can attend in person, but even if you don’t win, you can still get the entire knowledge base by >>> RSVP’ing right here under ‘sign up’ <<<< and then tuning in live. All this access… No travel. Ability to ask questions. Totally free. If you miss the live broadcast or want to watch it again, you will be able to purchase the full event, just like creativeLIVE always works.
Here’s how you can enter to win t to join us in San Francisco. It’s easy.
First, you must RSVP/sign up at this event link here.
Second, just answer the question: Why do you want to join me at the event? Let me know in the comments below and I’ll pick a winner based on how compelling your answer is!
If you think of something better to say or something to add to your original comment, feel free to enter again or add whatever you want to say in another comment. We’ll trace your answer back to you.
Lastly. This contest is worldwide. If you need to miss thursday, we can fly you in for friday, etc. and please note****THIS CONTEST ENDS AT 6PM pacific time TODAY. Winner will be announced this evening VIA MY TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND G+ ACCOUNT. Due to tight timeline, we must hear back from you within 60 minutes so we can hop on the phone and work out logistics for your travels. So make sure you are watching!
Official Rules HERE.
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Who: You, Me, and 15 of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs
What: a LIVE, interactive broadcast of Secrets of Silicon Valley from creativeLIVE
When: This Thursday and Friday, June 20-21 (Detailed schedule below)
Where: tune in to www.creativeLIVE.com/live
Here is the list of experts scheduled to give Master Classes, and the topics they will teach. Hope to see you there -physically or virtually.
Reid Hoffman, Founder LinkedIn & Ben Casnocha, entrepreneur (The Start-up of You)
Tim Ferriss, New York Times bestselling author (Solving your Business Problems)
David Goldberg, CEO Survey Monkey (The Art of Asking a Question)
Chris Guillebeau, New York Times bestselling author (The $100 Startup)
Pamela Slim, Business coach and author of Escape From Cubicle Nation
Megan Smith, VP of Google[x] (Networks Effects: 21st Century Collaboration and Opportunities)
Guy Kawasaki, New York Times bestselling author (The Art of Enchantment)
Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin (How to Sell Your Company without Selling Your Soul)
Sarah Leary & Nirav Tolia, Co-founders of Nextdoor (Look Before you Leap: How to Evaluate a Business Idea)
Spencer Rascoff, CEO of Zillow (Lessons from 15 Years in Tech)
Toni Schneider, CEO of WordPress (Managing a Distributed Workforce)
Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk (How to Get More Done)
Niniane Wang, CTO of Minted (Creating a Great Website on a Budget)
When you tune in, you’ll hopefully learn some valuable lessons and skills. I know I will!
Contest Details:
1) Official Rules HERE.
2) Prize: Airfare for 2, 1 room for 2 nights and 2 VIP tickets, combined value $2,000 US
3) Contest starts: June 19, 2013 11am PDT
4) Contest ends: June 19, 2013 6pm PDT
5) Notification: Winner will be announced the evening of June 19, 2013 PDT via Chase Jarvis Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and the winner MUST respond within 60 minutes because of the short timeline or we will have to choose the next winner.
6) How to enter for a chance to win:
_Go to link in the text above and RSVP to sign up for the broadcast
_Answer the question in the comments below: Why do you want to join me at the creativeLIVE event?
7) Our team will determine the winner based on how compelling your reason for wanting to attend is.
Hey Chase, I’ve been following your work and videos online for a while now, mainly because I feel we think in a very similar way when it comes to the business side of photography. I believe I have already learned a lot from you but I would love to meet you in person to get an even better perspective on your way of doing business as a photographer. Also, when I saw the list of all the entrepreneurs attending, I was truly impressed. The event is going to be a concentrated know-how bonanza on steroids for sure. Whoever is going to attend this event will definitely find a recipe on how to turn a hobby into a business and a great lifestyle in a shortest time possible.
But most importantly, 2 days hanging out with you, absorbing some knowledge and having you as a mentor would be an extremely valuable experience for me and my gorgeous wife who is also a big fan yours.
See you at the airport:)
I want to come to the CreativeLIVE “Secrets from Silicon Valley” workshop because I’m 25, just quit my job to move across the country and start a business, and I’ve demonstrated a consistent commitment to personal growth and helping others, and I know this event could bring it to the next level. Over the last 2 years I lost 100 pounds, went from unemployed to working for a media startup airing TV in hundreds of thousands of homes across the country, put on dozens of concerts with young singers and choirs throughout New England, and had the opportunity to speak and present at state conferences for educators and musicians to packed houses. I want to attend this event to take all that I’ve done and all I’ve learned in studying business, entrepreneurship, and personal growth and elevate it to the next level.
I’ve read the books and blogs of most of the teachers on the panel and I know seeing them in person and working with them can help me gain the tools and insight I need to improve the lives of millions through my work. Being able to connect with the other attendees and students at the workshop would also be a fantastic experience, as each would have so much to share and give, and I would be so excited for the opportunity to help them in their journeys as well.
My mission is to get the world singing again, here is a video of a community sing I led in college, many more available on the youtube cannel and my website, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xeDemvhekc&lch
Thank you so much for the opportunity, I promise I won’t let you down.
This is a HUGE opportunity to connect with the experts, ask tons of questions, get ideas, and light my creative FIRE! I am a self taught photographer, have worked for myself on my own terms, starting really branding myself over this past year, but I’m anxious to take on some bigger projects. I have so many ideas that cross into video, photography, app design, fashion, culture, and art. I’m currently pursuing an MFA in dynamic media (user experience, interactive design, multimedia) while also working constantly at photo and design jobs AND in a retail store for one of the biggest technology companies in the world (cough cough you can probably guess). I’m exposed to amazing technology and gadgets all day yet have no clue how to leap off the hi-dive with my tank of skills and not sink to the bottom. The Secrets of Silicon Valley would shine a huge light on a lot of the stuff for me and help me find out where I can fit in or completely blaze my own trail. Thank you!!!
Tim, my startup is located at the ROCK Health incubator here in Chinatown SF. In running a lean startup with loads of early traction, I’d really like to keep learning from great minds such as yours, Guy’s, and Reid’s
Keep hustling,
Jon
I’m not going to write a bunch of fluff to make me sound more awesome than I am. The reason I want to go is I’ve always wanted to hang out with Tim and Reid, and would simply love to do so. If it helps, I’m a fairly snappy dresser, so that might make for good TV. But that’s beside the point, I’d just love to be there. I just raised $360,000 on Kickstarter because of reading Tim’s book, so it’d be nice to be able to thank him personally.