I’m doing a workshop at the Winchester College - the School I attended many years ago -on the pros and cons of starting a business (compared to a conventional career) and put together a "reading, listening and viewing" list) for the boys.
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In B2B marketing - content is king - an interview with Augustin Kennady of ShipMonk by Richard Lucas
This article ends with "how to" and "what to do" for those who are already sold on the idea. If you want to listen to top professionals Sonal Chokshi from a16z and Camille Ricketts is the Head of Content and Marketing at First Round Capital here not everyone will have the budgets to operate at their level, but the thought they put into their Content strategy and the resources and effort they deploy show how seriously they take it.
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This is not a regular Richard Lucas post – because it wasn't him who wrote it. My name is Hugo Dutka. I am a Polish high school student and I like meeting entrepreneurs. Richard suggested I share this story.
To cut a long story short, I was lucky enough to spend my last summer in California. I wanted to meet entrepreneurs in Bay Area, but Polish high school students tend not to know successful business people in Silicon Valley. Luckily, I knew Richard. So I sent him a short message:
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I am publicly committing to improving my personal productivity. Why ?
A few months ago I signed up on a course Productivity Step by Step run by Piotr Nabielec who spoke at a Krakow Enterprise Mondays event I hosted.
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The Project Kazimierz Podcast handover episode with Sam Cook is on line here This was recorded a few days ago when Sam made public what has been the case for a while, that he is handing over to me. Project Kazimierz is now 100% Richard Lucas's show. Good or bad - the złoty stops with me. Sign up iTunes here
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TEDx talk are short, up to 18 minutes. A pitch will often be shorter. No selling is allowed in a TEDx talk though some might argue speakers are "selling" their ideas. There is a lot of information on the TED.com web site here about preparing a TEDx talk. One of the reasons TED and TEDx are so successful is that we pay so much attention to 'speaker prep'.
TEDx-s invest far more time in speaker preparation than any other event I've ever been involved in or heard about.
I saw the below post on Facebook, and thought that my answer might be valuable to more than this FB friend's little brother, so here is the post and my answer..
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This post is in honour of and in respect to attendees of OMGKRK and All in UJ's Startup Academy which launches today.
The good news is that the Krakow Silicon Valley is real. You just have to look for it.
If you Google "Krakow Silicon Valley" or Kraków Doliną Krzemową You'll get plenty of hits.
When Pawel Płaszczyk came back to Krakow after years abroad he looked for Krakow Silicon Valley and couldn't find it.
He set up this web site http://www.it.wkrakowie.org.
It's an honour to be regarded as an authority by Techcrunch's John Biggs so rather than just answer in the thread, I am making a blog post. John posted the below in a thread here by Maciej Serafin who is looking for a native speaker freelancer.
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I've have a lot of meetings recently with a similar agenda
What do I/you do ? What do I/you want? (unspoken agenda) Do I/you like the idea of doing things together?
How can we help each other ?
of course, there is the "Get to know, background check, are you/I (?!) creepy, do I risk my reputation by being helpful, making introductions?"
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I am usually more than happy to lend my "social network endorsement" (for what it's worth) to people/events who/which look reasonable - provided it is transparent and people can see what my relationship is with the event. (If it is in my capacity as a TEDxKazimierz Licencee or any other "official role" I do a bit more due diligence) as I am subject to external rules and need to be concerned about how far I have a mandate to endorse.
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Just as Australians and New Zealanders come to Europe on tourist visas, and overstay while working in the shadow economy, hoping either to make enough money, and/or find a sponsor or spouse to regularise their status, Europeans allowed into the UK as tourists will start overstaying.
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"Bring the boys back home" is the cry of those who want war to end and troops to return to safety. In the context of Brexit, those forced to return to Britain is a group who will be repatriated against their will, but the larger group will be those who never get to leave in the first place because it is too difficult to get a visa.
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At the TED Summit yesterday a group of TEDsters and TEDx-ers gathered to discuss the profound shock we feel about Brexit.
One idea suggested by a participant was to lobby our MPs as they will have to face their electorate with the terrible consequences of this fateful move.
If you are reading this and you care about the freedoms, peace and stability of Britain and Europe, and you have a vote in Britain, please write your version of this to your MP. You can find out who it is here
If you know any British person who thinks like me, send them a link to this post
I will never forget you helped me if you do
please
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If you care about making University Education more entrepreneurial please listen to this interview with Richard Miller of Olin.
I am re thinking my approach - Olin is to Universities what the School in the Cloud is to schools. - maybe benchmarking against San Francisco and/or Cambridge is not ambitious enough. ...