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 stop playing defense working for someone else. I want to play more offense and build something that can makes me proud, changes the world or at least makes it better, and provide for my family.
Hi Chase:
First, I want to thank you for this opportunity. As the other comments have articulated, this contest is almost as awesome as you!
As a first time Co-founder of a tech startup (iOS app that makes eating at restaurants easier), the delegation of rockstar leaders who are participating in 1 event makes me want to throw up. I read these people’s books, have watched countless interviews, etc. The idea of getting first hand advice regarding my startup would be amazing.
See, we are on the “Beast Coast.” We have built an awesome product, but have chosen to forego the accelerator route. We like flying under the radar. We like being different. Different is cool, but at the end of the day, different is hard. We need help. We have so much to learn at this critical time, and attending Secrets of SV would be huge for us. You and the others can help us…right now. We don’t need a kick in the ass. We aren’t looking for a cool vacay. We don’t want to waste time. We want help scaling this service from the peeps we admire most. Period.
Chase, you’re cool…we’re cool. It just makes sense, no? Proof that we are cool? Check out this cool side project I built: http://www.igiveashit.co 🙂
I know that this is a little beyond the deadline, but I wanted a chance to advance where I am in life. I love music, and I really enjoy attempting to backflip off of cloud 9. I want to learn how to bring my ideas to life and want to experience a positive environment.
I’m not looking for a hand out; I’m looking for a hand up, and I would sincerely appreciate an opportunity such as this.
PS: I’m also the 2009 High Five Champion of the World.*
*says my Mom.
I’ll admit that I don’t know much of your work. But I saw your interview with Tim Ferriss, and I was impressed. You’re clearly the type of guy who sees beyond your niche. You’re a photographer, but from the interview I got the sense you grasped the underlying principles that would let you be many things.
The event is full of people I’ve heard mentioned in a similar vein, including my favourite author, Tim.
I’m at an inflexion point in my career. I’ve worked for myself for two years, and have created a book series that’s selling reasonably well. With 2-3 months execution, by writing a few more books, I should be able to do two things:
1. Create enough recurring revenue that I can focus on only long term work
2. Exhaust the potential of the book series
So I’ll be faced with the interesting prospect of freedom, and I’ll have to decide what to do next. I think meeting some of these entrepreneurs could give me some ideas to inspire me what direction to take things.
It could be something in the same industry (LSAT prep), or it could be taking things in a new direction such as learning computer programming. Whatever it is, I’ll be able to devote my full energies to it and I’m looking for some inspiration.
Why do I want to join you at the creativeLIVE event? Because I need some inspiration to help me stop being so afraid of failure and start to act on these ideas I have kicking around in my head.