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.
Wouldn’t it be great to know that you just instilled a wealth of knowledge into the mind of a 19 year old? I think that it would be. Originally from the Bay Area, most of my formative years were spent in Tokyo, Japan. My time in Tokyo taught me how to be an independent young woman and gave me time to grow intellectually and creatively. It was also during this time that I found a great interest in both photography and entrepreneurship. The way in which your photographs highlight the simplicity in nature and the complexities that make up a human being truly inspired my decision to attend film school. As a current student studying film in Southern California, there is also a great deal that I have learned from the entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley. To say that I admire Tim Ferriss would be an understatement. In “The Four Hour Chef,” Tim Ferriss speaks about the Oberoi Grand Hotel in Kolkata, India who hire young employees with this thinking in mind “You can’t bend mature bamboo. But if you get it as a young shoot, you can bend it, mild it.” Ferriss additionally writes “Age doesn’t matter; an open mind does.” I believe that I am that young shoot and attending this event would be a fantastic opportunity for me to learn from the best. How many 19 year old students would want to attend an event full of Silicon Valley’s top entrepreneurs on their own accord.
If that doesn’t convince you, just think about how much you’d be saving on airfare when you don’t have to fly me in because I live in the Bay Area.
Cheers
Knowing you have way too many of these to read I’ll be direct.
I would be honored to participate because:
1. I love to learn from minds that challenge each other and strive to do something with meaning
2. I love to dream and by all means would love to dream with this line up
3. I want to use my strengths and career experiences to create jobs and improve people’s lives. I believe there is always a better / different way to build businesses and I want to create a company that does just this. I believe this experience will help me achieve this goal and would be very grateful to be chosen.
My name is Nathan Cadieux. I’m a 27yrs old and live in San Diego. I work in real estate development but have a desire to launch a new business model that bridges the gap between the retail shopping experience and the convenience of E-Commerce.
Thank you for your generous offer and your willingness to support and collaborate with others.
Why? To learn and to be inspired.
I think this would be a great opportunity for me and my buddy Rob. Great to learn insights from some of the greats and to here their thoughts in person. What better way to learn than in a round table type discussion.
Why pick me? Because I’m a pinwheel of positivity, determination and innovation despite going through a tough time lately.
How tough? Suffice to say, “I Will Survive” has become a personal anthem and I’ll tell you more on Thursday if you wish.
What I took from it all is the determination that my life will be like one of those tornados that levels a town without hurting anyone- it ends up doing $100 Million in improvements by wiping out the old and making room for the new (and more energy efficient).
To that end, during this time, I’ve also been working on my great startup idea- and it’s a great one that meets a need, has a clear path to profitability and provides a great social benefit as well in the field of healthcare and technology while allowing me to leverage my natural strengths and experiences.
After learning a lot of lessons with my first startup, I realize that what I need is an entrepreneur community to help along the way as well as knowledgeable mentors. My business degrees were less useful than I’d hoped that they might be in this endeavor. Mentors are not as common in my area (smaller town in the midwest) as I would like despite continuing to seek them out. With tech, SV is but a Skype away. Even better, I’m a connector by nature and my broad and active connections on social media and beyond would allow my experience to produce virtuous waves of interconnection and synergy through communities that your attendees are unlikely to yet touch- especially communities of women.
Next, my area of expertise is HR which would bring a unique set of experiences (F100 HR) and knowledge to add to those in non-profit and government workplaces that most would not have. I’ve been a minion, a consultant, and a manager- roles that are all important to understand how to engage and maximize. People are the ultimate “secret sauce” and I get that.
Finally, I’m a woman who is comfortable participating with, accepting input from and openly contributing in the company of both men and women, even in the company of those whom I admire greatly A strong, optimistic, pragmatic, network-connecting female presence with unique knowledge bases would add valuable inputs to others’ projects and networks while, I’m certain, helping me to build my own idea and sphere of engagement.