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 I want to join?? Well you’d be crazy not to. Of all the incredible speakers (and there has been an amazing list) I fell this one above all else has the ability to make a difference, IF someone does something with it, IF you implement the changes and IF your fearless, BUT is this reason enough? No, not in my opinion. If you are given such a great gift, in my view, you have to pay it forward. And I have a plan to pay it forward. I have always been a believer in volunteering and in the power of one person to make a difference. Photography, above all else in my life, allows me to give a gift, tell a story and change a life, like no other way I have volunteered before. I am a volunteer photographer with the Tiny Light Foundation,Autism Aspergers Friendship Society and Allies For Autism . As a mother whose son is effected by Aspergers, I struggle to make a difference for him, make his now better and his future brighter. I feel my way forward day by day through the darkness and often gaining hope through the support of some of the amazing organizations above. Right now the Autism Aspergers Friendship Society, an organization where my son is truly valued and helped, is having a fundraiser, trying to raise $1,000,000 to build a facility that will allow them to offer even a greater level of services and programs. In a time where our government recently announced cuts to funded programs for people with disabilities, the need for this is even greater now. I can raise awareness and some money, but a million dollars is a huge goal. I want to help the only way I know to help. I want to not only take pictures of the fundraising events, but also to take it beyond just an event and snapshot and to tell a story of the children, adults, and families who are impacted by this organization, and those that work to support it. I want to take the information I learned at the event and take an innovative spin on fund raising so they can not only meet the goal but exceed it. I have business sense, but to help them achieve this goal, it’ll take a little bit more. I want to combine both the business and the art to tell the story of those often marginalized and misunderstood, of the families stretched and exhausted and of those who are trying to make it different. Once you connect people with a story you make them stop and care and open up their hearts.And that’s the only way I know how to raise a million dollars. It’s by taking the gift of the VIP event and giving back.
Because even though I think I’m 17 minutes past the deadline for this contest, life is about doing what you think and feel is right regardless of the rules and conditions others place on you.
Honestly, i want to do this because i’m sick of working next to the office bathroom and i’d really like to put on some big boy pants and get my shit together. I build auto shop websites for a living, but it beats pumping gas for tips (which i did at age 16).
PLEASE TEACH ME YOUR SECRETS.
Also, my girlfriend says I have a winning smile, but the only thing I’ve won lately is the “get your laptop stolen out of your friends car in SF” lottery on Monday night. FUCK YEAH!
No seriously, i will call in sick forever to be there.
Brendan Ronan
I want to learn more about “secret of Silicon Valley” and would like share with you about “secret of China”! I guess my answer won’t be selected anyway, just have fun here 🙂
I’ve built a mind-sucking machine and want to test it on the best and brightest.
ya dig?
+++ I will smuggle fresh Maple syrup from Canada.