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.
Hi Chase, I would love to win this because I’m at the point in my business where I could really use the infusion of some great out-of-the-box thinkers. I burnt out going the corporate route with my designs after 7 years, and re-started a new line made here in the U.S. but outside of the traditional business model of reps, trade shows,etc. using my organic following and social media to sell my line…I have hit a plateau and need to re-think the business plan and would be thrilled to have the opportunity for some brilliant face-to-face advice.
Thanks!
Mary Jo
I am very excited about this opportunity. I’m currently in college and have been an entrepreneur my entire life, having my own businesses since I was 12. Currently I am in college going part time, while working full time to pay the bills, and learning Ruby on Rails to develop the website for my very first startup.
I’m very excited about this venture and I know being in attendance to this venue would 100% be life changing and help me go down the correct path of entrepreneurship. I’m willing to be missing the Bruins game for this, that’s how much I want this. Not to mention cracking a beer and sharing stories with all of these badass brainiacs is exactly what I’m all about! Thanks for putting this out there for us, and when I become much more successful soon, I’ll be sure to return the favor to the next wave of thinkers!
-Jordan Rushing, CEO of Patentflip
I’m an independent filmmaker from the Midwest who has lived a life of varied experience. I’ve been a radio deejay, 9-1-1
operator, limo driver, military intelligence linguist, magic shop clerk, journalist, actor, warehouse store cashier, boudoir photographer, police and fire dispatcher, television producer and director, mentalist, pizza maker, magazine writer, independent filmmaker, talk show host and emergency medical technician… to name a few.
Lately, I’ve discovered the books and blogs of Tim Ferriss. The concept of Lifestyle Design intrigues me. I’m far from living a designer life, but it’s a work in progress. I’m also producing and directing an independent feature film (currently funding, very slowly, on Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lowfidelity/market-correction-a-feature-film). I’d truly love and appreciate the opportunity to pick the brains of the creativeLIVE crew.
But you guys have to promise not to tell my employer that I’m not “sick” at home on Thursday. Deal?
I know I’m not the best photographer out there. I will continue learning until the day I die, but I truly believe that what I have to offer is an incredible service for my clients, and I truly believe in my ability to build an amazing business.
I know I’m young, but I have soaked up every bit of knowledge about business, productivity, and service I can find since the age of 16. I’ve worked in many industries including the medical field, catering, hospitality, and being an executive assistant to two CEO’s. I believe it’s not just a coincidence that I’ve been exposed to so many amazing business people and CEO’s that I’ve had the opportunity to learn from. I decided at the beginning of this year that FEAR would not hold be back any longer. I believe in what I do, I believe learning from great minds that have come before me, and I believe that I can be successful beyond my WILDEST DREAMS.
I don’t have an amazing story to tell other than the truth, my truth. I’m a southern woman from North Carolina that’s lived in 5 states in the past 10 years. I’ve been married and divorced. I’ve had more “life experience” than most 35 year olds.
This all has led to my current beliefs…my current REALIZATION that life doesn’t wait. I could let it slip by and become another nobody…but I have decided to make something of my life. That is what I intend to do. If you’re doing this to share knowledge with someone who is determined to put it to use, and not make excuses, than choose me.
I am ready.
Samantha Adams
So why do I want to join the event? cause I spent 11 years working in fast food, as a subway sandwich artist, knowing my life has been destine for so much more. There is no way i can ever go back to working for someone else. I think meeting some of the 1%ers and having them impart there knowledge on me could be the breakthrough energy i need.
I am an entrepreneur at heart. I started my first business when i was 6 by melting crayons on to small pieces of paper and selling them door to door. Then in middle school i would buy candy at wholesale and sell it just under retail during lunch. I came out of highschool and went all in on starting an entertainment company. It tanked but i don’t regret a single minute of it. I have never given up the dream and have a dozen ideas. Right now i run a fitness company that seeks to turn geeks in to freaks. letting them live that childhood fantasy by looking and feeling like the comic book characters they have read about for decades. It start out of an MLM i got involved in but has slowly begun to evolve in to my own business.