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.
I’m from New Orleans. I live, work and create here. Though I spend my time solving non-Silicon Valley problems, having access to the collective knowledge and experience of these accomplished individuals might make the difference from helping hundreds of people to hundreds of thousands.
Thanks for the opportunity.
-xn
I am a portrait photographer with ambitions of photo/storytelling the lives of the next generation of world shakers and movers, especially those of women and persons who succeeded and will succeed against all odds. My ultimate goal is to tell ‘the story’ in pictures. It would be great to attend this gala event with you and do a “picture cast” (tell the presenters’ story in a picture) that will be worth a million words (and dollars☺). I would donate the “picture cast masterpiece” to you and your team.
Cheers,
Mandy.
Hey Chase! My pal Taylor and I would be thrilled to come to San Francisco, and here’s why:
– We would hugely benefit from Secrets from the Silicon Valley! We are fun dudes in our mid-twenties, looking to launch our own creative company together. (photo & video) …Did I just say we are fun dudes?
– We live in Portland – Hey that’s a cheap plane ticket! And did someone say beer? Porlanders love their beer.
– We are lifelong learners. To be able to attend a CreativeLive in person with such a stacked lineup is a dream. Our strength is being creative, and a weekend amongst yourself and other entrepreneurs like Reid Hoffman & Megan Smith would really help sharpen our skill sets.
– As a humble thank you if we were chosen, we would document the whole trip and share it online to our 30K+ followers throughout the weekend. That’s not the largest audience, but we’d like to do anything we can to spread the world about the CreativeLive & Chase Jarvis brand we have come to love.
Thanks for considering us! We will see you soon regardless, even if it is on the computer screen!
For the opportunity to buy the man a beer who drastically changed my life’s course for the better would be the greatest gift I could ever think of. You and your books have changed my life. The Four Hour Workweek opened my eyes to a completely different world of opportunity. Though I’ve been through several muses and have yet to find one that I can truly give my all to I am eternally grateful to you for putting such a masterpiece into the world. After two years of fighting bureaucracy at the school I taught at I was successfully allowed to teach a personal finance class of my own design. Your Four Hour Workweek was the only book I required my students to read the entire semester. They did each of the exercises and their response was truly amazing. Know that that book not only changed my life but the lives of all of the students I’ve had study your book. If that we’re not enough you brought at 4 Hour Body and 4 Hour Chef two books I’m actively implementing into my life. For all you have done for me and my family I can think of nothing better then to have the chance to meet you, buy you a beer, and truly say THANK YOU!
While there, I know I would have a second to none opportunity to absorb information from so many wonderful entrepreneurs and my wish would be that I could someday repay the generosity. I would to speak with you regarding how we could potentially develope curriculum for public schools with a true entrepreneurship flair that only Tim Ferriss could help develop. I sincerely hope I get the chance to buy you that beer and have you meet my wife who’s expecting our 2nd child at the end of July (a girl this time, god help me)!!!
Surrounding yourself with smarter people is some of the best advice I’ve heard. Where better to find these individuals than at this event. This would be a dream course for me and my current startup. Understanding more about Silicon Valley what venture capitalists are looking for will be very valuable to us, as we will soon be seeking an investment. Learning from those who have proven they can build a business is just so interesting to me. Taking some risks early in my life is the path I have chosen, and making a stop in San Fran can only improve my chances of creating some disrupting products.