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.
Why do you want to join me at the event?
I don’t have time for this right now, I’m too busy launching my latest company. I have important things to get done, I’m behind schedule and the list keeps getting bigger. You shouldn’t have even offered this. Your presenter list reads like the top row of my book shelf. It’s scary, I think that’s how you formed the lineup. I should put this off until I’m a raging success, right? OK, I know, I know – Ugh, I’ll work it late in case my name come up. UNBELIEVABLE
Because I am godamn sick and tired of doing the right thing the safe way my entire life. I need a challenge and some impetus to kick start a new phase of my life.
My adopted mission statement in life is ‘To help interesting people do interesting things’.
All of the experts listed are all one of the world’s most interesting people who have have changed the world and helped people better their lives and businesses. I would love to absorb their lessons and experiences and be able to do the same.
Running my own business and leaving the 9-5 workforce has been the ultimate goal for me. I’ve already been allowed to work my current position remotely, which allows me more time to work on my entrepreneurial endeavors. I’m looking to completely break the bonds of the rat race, and I need to surround myself with the best and brightest to expedite the process. I want to hack success.
My name is Christopher Baker, 23 years old.
I am heavily dyslexic, and have always found learning difficult. However, this has never stopped me from giving up. Even my parents did not believe I was bright enough to obtain a degree, however working hard in the classroom and on the sports field, I managed to obtain scholarship to North Carolina where I played college golf and study Business and Entrepreneurship for four years.
In those four years and learning principles from the 4 Hour Work Week, I managed to set up my own art business selling art of work around the world by the artist Banksy. Creative Live even helped me develop this business when I bought Lewis Howes “launching a business online” course on 12/02/2012. Not knowing exactly what I wanted to do after university. I realised, that I needed to surround myself with the right people – as I am a strong believer “you are the average of the five people you associate yourself the most”
I hustled my ass off for 3 months emailing every person, contact and professor I had, and realised that San Francisco was the place I needed to be. I spent hours and hours then trying to find a place/company to work for, and found an amazing company called The Monkey Inferno – Michael Birch company. I saw there tag line on angle “we dream up cool internet ideas and make them.” I had no idea even how to build a website. But I knew this place was for me.
I emailed and emailed them, hustled and hustled till the CEO called Shaan Puri, gave me an opportunity to prove myself as an Intern. I have been here three weeks and learning so much, but I feel I could do so much more and would love to meet the likes of Tim Ferris and Guy Kawasaki as they have had such a huge impact on my life. In the three weeks I have been here I have developed my latest project called loftrock.com (please feel free to check it out).
I realise you have two offices, one in San Fran and one in Seattle. If chosen I would fly to Seattle to make an opportunity like this happen, it would be nothing but a dream to make this happen. (or just catch a taxi if in San Fran!)
I am young and hungry, I realise and know I am not perfect or the smartest person, but I will never stop believing in myself to create something that makes a real difference. I just want to keep learning and developing as a person. And most of all prove all those people who said you cant go after your dreams.
Please do feel free to contact me if you have any more questions in the mean time,
chris@monkeyinferno.com or gas.tower@hotmail.co.uk
Best
Chris