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 want to join you at Secrets of Silicon Valley because my excuses to delay learning how to network end now. I am working on an aerial photo/mapping project of Virunga National Park in D.R. Congo and need to get this idea out there. I was fortunate enough to implement it successfully just two months ago, a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I believe this project can be put to use in many areas of the world where limited infrastructure makes working from the ground all but impossible. But all my hard work on the “scientific” end of this goes for naught when I do nothing to get the word out about the work I’m doing. I believe that this opportunity would change this. A lot. But I need to get out there and network. This is the opportunity I have been looking for.
I want to attend to meet the most creative minds. I admit I’m not in a terrible place, I overcame teenage obesity and an abusive household growing up but life’s alright. I work in the digital marketing field and could not pass up a chance to meet the most forward thinking people in business today. 8:59 ET…shit
So I can pretend to be ‘Kevin Rose’ in a real life episode of the Random Show with you.
I’ll provide 2 reasons:
1. The 1st time we met in Toronto you said “You owe me big time”
2. I’ll bring ResQwater for when we have beers 🙂
Michael Hurcomb
Hi Chase,
My name is Jon Gibb, Im a 23 year old artist and photographer now living in the Bay Area.
Im originally from Kauai and have been an artist as long as I can remember.
I went through my life as a young creative having to go against the grain of what my parents, school, teachers and other “reputable” people thought was best for me.
My best art excelled in my english classes, while my worst in my art classes when the teacher would make us draw and shade still lives.
All this changed when I entered college (community) on Kauai and had gotten a DSLR for my birthday to take higher quality pictures of my art.
I took an ultra grainey picture of a waterfall at about 1/30th of a second on November 29th 2010 and saw something I loved instantly.
January 18th of 2010 I was on a 2400 mile plane ride to California, found a place and started at the School Of Photography at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.
3 semesters later, using all the gear I never had access to before I quit school and quit my job as a valet to be a creative as a living. That was on november 28th 2012.
Im here today on the Bay Area, working as a freelance Photographer, Film maker and Artist in the pursuit of my dream to realize my potential for myself, my friends, my family, and anyone I can help along the way.
I’ve been so intrigued lately by the opportunity to help others around me through my creativity and that is my goal, to be the best I can be and help as many people as I can along the way by either motivating others to help and make change or help directly to those in need.
My story is short compared to who and what I want to help others with in this world, I write this because I’ve learnt more about myself and my creative work through your show’s and the people you interview then I ever did from any teacher.
I want to attend your show on friday and saturday to learn more then I ever have in a 2 day period to then spread the word and help change this world for the better through art!!
Many thanks for what you have taught me already Chase to you and your team, I look forward to the day we meet!
Sincerely,
Jon R. Gibb III
PS This was the short version of how and why I would like to attend! (only had about 8 mins to post!)
Here it is clean and simple!
I want to attend this meeting because
1. I will learn how to be a better creative through being able to ask questions to the top minds of the problems and opportunities my generation and what we as a people have in this world at this time!
– The ability to share anything to almost anyone has the potential to save and help so many people, I want to be the best I can be at this to make a difference!
– The value of an idea and not age, and how to best use this!
– The potential of change through an idea!
– What sharing can do to help people of every continent!
2. I will be able to get advice and ask questions that many young artists and creatives have in todays world that would greatly help the pursuit of they’re dream!
3. The fact that I support the pursuit of knowledge by any means! Teach yourself what others refuse to teach you and that most importantly
KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE SHARED NO MATTER WHAT YOUR INCOME OR SITUATION! I want to share this with as many people as I can because as the saying still stands as true as ever, knowledge is power.
Im as enthusiastic as I can humanly be to attend this meeting Chase, if I don’t get to speak and ask questions about life as a creative and philosophy this week it will be someday soon!!!
Many thanks and cheers to you and your team!
-Jon R. Gibb
“Well done is better then well said”