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.
So many people talk about the struggles they run into being a young entrepreneur…. But what about us older folks (Errrrrhhhh… Like, around the age of 50, or so) who are also entrepreneurs, who ARE still curious, who haven’t burned out, who have an insatiable want/need/desire to learn, and who think that hanging out in San Francisco with Chase and Crew would be the most kick-ass weekend imaginable?
Yeah… There are a few of us out there (old guys who are still curious about the world), and a “Secrets of Silicon Valley” workshop would be a great way to feed the need for information and learning.
Oh! And did I mentioned that my wife and daughter are down in the Bay Area right now (we live in Portland), checking out some of the local colleges and universities? They would wet their pants (not literally, I hope) if I somehow popped on down to San Francisco tomorrow evening.
The opportunity presented sounds totally whimsical and fairytale… meeting, Chase and many other tremendously successful and brilliant people?.. with a half a day notice?.. I don’t see how this is possible, but I know that there will be 15 lucky winners. It would be incredible if Ihappen to be one of them 🙂
Photography is my passion! Unfortunately, it took a while for me to realize and to follow it. I’m working hard on learning all I can in my limited free time about photography and the business side of being a photographer. Any time spent with great people discussing ideas and learning would be an amazing treat! Thanks a lot for the great opportunity!
I don’t want my life to be about living comfortably in a 9-5 job. I want to take risks and always strive for my dreams. I would love the opportunity to meet, learn from, and be inspired by these amazing individuals so that I can live an extraordinary life.
I have lived with a camera in my hand for years, so when I decided to finally do photography as my business, it made perfect sense. I feel so blessed to be able to capture special moments and give them to my clients. I was able to watch you on Creative Live last month and realized I am in desperate need of a business make over. I am learning as I go, but feel that meeting you guys would give me the knowledge and kick I need to really get it going.
Pluuuuuuuuus, I live in San Francisco and am completely available these next two days 🙂
{{hands waving in the air…pick me, pick me!}}
I have to make this work! My family is at a place where they really need my business to succeed. My husband is a teacher and we have 3 children in college and one in high school. Photography is what I do. Financially we are strained and I would love to make my business work so that I can help bear the load.
I need help…. desperately
I struggle when it comes to writing but I know being chosen would change the life of my business forever.
Hi Chase,
Coming out of college, I always assumed having a stable job and income would make me happy. I landed a great gig as in business development role for a tech agency and was involved in successful pitches with big corporate companies for brilliant media applications across TV Everywhere. Boy, it was nerve wrecking, but I hacked it and gained a lot of experience within my early years there. It has helped me grow up along with build a very great group of friends that are both brilliant, entrepreneurial, and hungry.
Recently, I felt that I hit a brick wall at my previous company, and although I was doing well for myself, the passion for working on amazing products that only get overshadowed by big brands left a empty hole in my stomach. I couldn’t see myself doing this for long. I was ready to move on.
I wanted to be apart of building great products and tools that make a direct impact to the end consumer, rather than for other businesses. I took a leap of faith and now I’m full-time working on two products that I hope will entertain the audiences we are looking to target as well as becoming a great marketing tool for our users to increase engagement.
Now, the reason I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to come to this event is to not only meet and learn from these brilliant minds, but I also want to learn how much love and hard work everyone put into their projects while overcoming adversities. I’d also like to know how much they committed to the holistic view as opposed to the nitty gritty work that needs to be done.
I’m actually from Toronto (I’m sorry, Airfare is quite expensive from Air Canada but I’m also okay with flying in US Airlines :P). My name is John Kim, I’m currently 24 years old, and have built up great products with a brilliant team behind me. I’m expecting to go through a lot of ups and downs, but I’m ready, excited, and focused on making an impact rather than collecting a steady pay cheque.
Thanks Chase for setting up this opportunity, it’s really admirable.
John Kim (john@gamemob.com)