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 am someone looking to change his life. I am using tools from wherever I can get them, I like people and I like making money. I can do whatever you need me to do all I need is an allowance for a small learning curve. This is a golden opportunity for you, to equip me with tools that can better suit my business and yours. I want to be dream big and live in the new rich. Regardless I will get to where I will myself to be, I hope our journeys do cross paths now or in the future.
Best Wishes,
Arjun
In the marathon that is my life, I have passed crucial mile markings: I decided to commit myself to my God-given talent of writing, I left my boring, dead-end job, I moved to Indonesia to volunteer for several years, to find purpose, and to live in a place where I could support myself by writing. I got established (that was a slow, painful mile marker to pass!) as a freelance writer, but I consider my race half run. But now I am slowing down, running out of energy and money, and losing inspiration. I have pulled in IT and writer geek friends to loosely form an app=making team, but we’re in the early stages and I am unsure where to put my focus and attention. I have ideas about a very unusual kind of dating service and, when my daughter was sick with dengue (a neglected tropical disease that affects millions of people in Asia) I created a drink for kids that minimizes the effects of the disease, but I can’t figure out how to license or sell the idea. I need some serious help and inspiration to get across that finish line, see my dreams become reality, continue my new found purpose of helping people and create a successful financial base while I follow my true bliss and am able to spend time writing plays and essays.
I hope I didn’t miss the deadline. When I saw this posting, I signed up for the event without hesitation. But as I scrolled through the replies, I began to doubt whether or not I was going to bother applying. The replies here are great, and read like polished letters of intent. It seems most everyone is coming from a similar place: hardship, looking to expand their business, break past the barriers in front of them, live out an once in a lifetime opportunity, etc. I’m in the same place.
Two weeks ago, I would have seen those replies, determined there’s no chance in hell I’m getting picked, and moved on to whatever path twitter took me to next. Two weeks ago I was working for a commercial production company after deciding I was tired of freelancing, and two weeks ago I decided I’m going to take back control of my own life and run my own business the way I want to. I’m now on track this month to make as much as I was making in my full time job (with a little help from the Breaking the Barrier e-book), doing what I WANT to do. The way I want to do it.
I’ve made the most out of the paths I’ve found in this life. I opened a comic book store fresh out of high school, explored as many career paths as I could possibly imagine in college, invested in failed businesses, invested in successful ones, volunteered, started two separate NPOs, travelled, met interesting like minded people from all walks of life, and I’ve learned something from every choice I’ve made. This is a path I want to see through.
Going to this event with you, someone whose work I admire, to listen to a room full of people whom I also admire discuss a subject that can directly benefit my career and life is obviously a HUGE deal. I hope to take a lot from the experience, and hopefully be able to pay forward the good fortune.
I wanna go all the way!!! It would be an incredible opportunity to go somewhere I can move forward and rock my business and break thru!!! Also its been a hard few months and i just lost my dad and would love to get some mojo and good inspiration!!! XOXO Dinea
I will like to join to share money making Ideas with other entrepreneurs. I have been a pizzeria owner, realestate entrepreneur, and a few other business but have not been able to make it in the Internet worled.
I am a CPA and have a Master degree in accounting in finance, and could share some good financial knoledge with other entrepenuers,I even have broad knowledge in brick and mortal marketing but just have not been able to break through the Internet business world.
Will love to be around the once that are making it happen. I could even pay for my own trip, it is not about the prize is about being able to hangout with the crowd that will help you get to the next level.