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.
Alright, I literally just heard about this and the contest is ending in 5-mins so I will do my best to provide you with a few reasons why you should choose me for this event.
Chase, I heard about you just a few weeks ago when you interviewed Julien Smith. Long story short, that interview had a profound impact upon the way I have been conducting my life and business as of late. Julien’s no-BS attitude is something which really shattered some barriers that I had up regarding my interaction with others.
Back to the contest.
I am a young, aspiring entrepreneur hoping to focus my entrepreneurial career primarily in social enterprise.
I have had conversations with a few entrepreneurs that have highlighted the importance of having the correct ‘entrepreneurial mindset’ in order to succeed even in social enterprise.
I feel as if I have the ethics in place which will drive me to pursue a tremendous social enterprise (think Scott Harrison from charity:water) but I don’t have the necessary business background in order to really make this change a reality. I want to have an impact for good upon this world, and I realize that there are specific skills needed to make this a reality. This Creative Live event will serve as further preparation to achieve this end.
I really would give anything to make it to this event.
I heard about the event two days ago and I knew immediately that I wanted to go (and planned to attend online). However, you and I both know that interaction with the world-changers is much more effective than learning the content.
For me, this event serves not only as an opportunity to learn amazing one-off content, but to meet some of the people who have had a tremendous impact on my life this past year (Chris Guillibeau, yourself, Guy Kawasaki, etc.)
To top it off, I want my entrepreneurial activities to provide a way out of the harsh financial situation my family is currently in.
My father is ready to lose his house, leaving my 4 younger brothers without a place to call home.
This will further my opportunity to bring them out of this harsh reality.
Ok, well I gotta submit this now!
Hope you pick me! (Really)
Thanks,
Nick
I would LOVE to join you at this event because i feel your energy! I believe in everything you teach and want you to shake me up a little! and it would be a thrill to get a life time of inspiration in 2 days!
Chase-
First off, it was great running into you and Kate at Zoka this week. I was stoked to finally present you with my product, the ClearShot – credit card size tripod from the very first production run. As an engineer for Boeing, I finally dropped out a few months ago after 7 years to pursue this project full time, and I never could have done it without the support of you and your dream team. I always knew that it was MY dream to take a product idea and bring it to market, and I have finally done it and am finding success as I work out deals with major distribution channels.
Through insights and education provided via your network of super talented artists and professionals, I have learned the REAL lessons of what it takes, and how to get there. Inspired by the likes of Oren, Ramit, Les Stroud, Travis Rice, Guy, Robert Green, Julien Smith, my very good friend Matthew Jordan Smith, and so many others I’ve seen online and in person, I have grown more in the past 2 years than any other period in my life.
I had the engineering skills to design the ClearShot, but I had to learn from scratch how to manage everything around it. A nearly infinite number of challenges have been overcome as I have deeloped the product, from patent and legal, marketing, outreach, building a brand and a message, and just having the overall inspiration to continue during the most difficult times, I look forward to the opportunity to continue my education with you this weekend. Thank you.
Mike Carney
Throughout my studies at ASU, I have been engrossed in the curiosity and potential of the entrepreneurs potential. Though, it is not definite, it holds exciting possibilities. I am a self-experimenter and science enthusiast at heart. I get interested in applications and technologies because they amuse me and I want to know more. I am very interested in the ability of our minds, and I want to take this to the full potential that we can. I have many questions and many ideas I want to explore, one that I already have been working on has to do with memory retention and how to best reproduce effective results. If we can shape a software (or app) around this instruction, we can influence the efficiency at which we learn, and thus create better children, better citizens… better human beings. Take a chance on me- worst case, I fly in and we can share a beer together
So I can learn to live life on my terms from the best.