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.
Hi Chase.
I don’t want to come to San Francisco to watch the World’s Best Minds talk about the secrets of silicone valley.
Don’t get me wrong, that sounds like an amazing opportunity and one I would jump at with both hands, feet and a rambling cacophony of screaming noises.
I would however like to come over and hang out with you, shake your hand and let you know how much of an inspiration you have been to me in leaving a job I do not like and starting on a path of creative living.
In the last few years I have been glued to your blog posts. Enamoured with your Youtube videos and hung on every tweet (the last one is a lie, I still cant figure out twitter :P)
You put out the knowledge on how to make something amazing for yourself and challenged people to push themselves creatively.
But most of all you made me want to actually ‘DO’ something. Create something. And push myself further than I was comfortable with. It was never about the gear (although the lust is still there) It was about giving birth to an idea and having it shaped by others out there.
I still have a long way to go and even though I may not get to see you and hang out with you I would like to someday shake your hand and say thanks for awakening a dream inside of me.
If you are ever down in Australia again, I’d love to buy you a beer (You’ll have to spring for chips though, I am a struggeling artist after all 😉
Anton
When I was born, my parents were told that I would probably
not make it to the age of 7 and be lucky if I saw my 13th birthday.
I was diagnosed with a very serious genetic condition with little hope.
My parents refused to accept my fate and they embarked on an
endless search for anything that could help me.
Fast forward 25 years and here I am now. Beating all the odds;
almost as healthy as a normal person. This is thanks in part to what
my parents did for me as well as my determination to keep as healthy
as possible.
Although my future looks bright, there is always the small chance that
the tides will turn on my fight and my life will be taken away prematurely.
I know the price of my mortality, I know how precious life is and I refuse
to waste a single minute of it! And I’ll be damned if I’m going to spend
my life by other peoples rules! Ie working for someone else.
It is for this reason that I have set out to create a life for myself where
I can enjoy every minute, where I can dictate my own hours, where I
can do what I love, where I can go where the wind blows me – my passions
are surfing and travel. The results of this is that I have started an internet
based company and have spent the last 2 years trying to get it to succeed.
I WILL succeed, but going to this event would certainly kick start my progress!
I want to help myself, and I also want to help others in my situation. Most
people who have my condition do not have the support and access to
alternative medicines that I did when I was younger and as a result these
people are needlessly suffering.
I do not tell my story to garner sympathy – I do not believe in sympathy.
I tell my story merely to show that I would truly appreciate the opportunity
and make 100% use of what I learned and the amazing people I met.
Thank you for your consideration.
Kind regards
Jonathan
I’m a 14 year old photographer and I would love this chance to definetley get a better skill set and it would be a great experience overall. You work is great and I like the video’s you have been posting lately.
Chase – I think business is art. You’re assembling an amazing group of business artists. Each has my admiration for what they created with their own style and medium. Would love to be there… There are some amazing comments here that would all be a great choice. Meantime – I throw my hat in the ring from Cinti, Oh…
This would be a dream fulfilled in a once in a lifetime opportunity. This opportunity means a lot for two reasons
1. Selfish for myself – The reason I am on the road I am today is because of Mr Ferriss. During my journey, some of these guys have been pivotal in my life and I would LOVE to be in their company.
2. For my tech community – Living in Sydney, Australia and being a part of the largest tech coworking space here, we all sometimes feel so isolated from the valley. I would love to be a connector for my colleagues (even if it is for a short while) as they are all doing something amazing and they inspire me every step of the way.
I want this so much! Cheers for reading 🙂