Most of the information in this article comes from an interview with Jenny Chen of WalktheChat (details below). Thanks to her for sharing her time.
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Towards the end of February 2015 I migrated this blog onto Richardlucas.com and posted “The Last Post” blog where I wrote that it would be the last post ever on this blog (unless I changed my mind). Like a Zombie, this blog has come back to life.
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I'm writing this post on the invitation of Jenny Belotserkovsky - one of the co-founders of Jews For Entrepreneurs.
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I just created a new Google form to recruit business partners, following a conversation with my friend, business and squash partner Pawel Nowak. Will it work ? I don't know. Below is the introduction you will read if you click on it.. to read the questions as well, you need to go to the form itself
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Every now and again I come across ideas and projects so worthwhile that I make contact with the people behind them.
BBC Radio has been running a series "100 Women" and there were impressive broadcasts from Ghana and Uganda.
through which I heard of Ernestina Appiah here Founder of Ghana Code Club and Rasheeda Yehuza of Tech Needs Girls
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Wedding photography is a business like any other. The rewards go to those who are focussed, professional and work hard. Wedding photographs are cherished forever so you know you need to make them as wonderful as possible and capture the moments of the day. Whether you're capturing one of the fabulous Cornish weddings or you're in central London capturing two millionaires wedding day.
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I spent a serious amount of time looking for answers to questions that are relevant to the businesses I am involved in, or researching business projects. If I find what I am looking for, I forward it on with a few comments to the person to whom it is relevant. Other times, I can’t find what I am looking for, which means an unsolved problem.
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(March 2018 update - Open Coffee Krakow is now in Rynek Glówny 28, thanks to Philippe Wahab and is in great shape. We organise our events on Meetup here The leaders are Lorenzo Brigatti, Kamil Łopata and sterling support from Jan Marczyński/ You can watch what happens with Facebook live here
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I needed this transcript for another article I was writing, so here it is. It's well worth sharing,
The 4.30 second talk was so much talked about that he was interviewed about it for example by an American chat show host Ellen.
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I got a call from a journalist Jerzy Sadecki interested in my investment in Lovekrakow.pl, a news website with stellar traffic. I don't know how much of my answers will be published, so am posting the correspondence below.
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I will never ever ever post to https://richardhlucas.wordpress.com (unless I change my mind), but before clicking submit for the final time, here are a few statistics, action items and reflections.
At the beginning of 2015 I decided to migrate my blog to richardlucas.com to which the help of Rafał - a recommended Wordpress consultant
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Gary Vaynerchuk said the other day that Linkedin is getting really big. I read elsewhere that top 10 lists work really well. So I thought I'd try writing a "top 20 sales questions" list and see how it worked. As my experience is selling to business - not consumers - it turned into a B2B list, and 20 questions was not enough. So you get 40 for the price of 20 (free). I wonder how the traffic will develop. It's on Slideshare here
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Thanks to Kamil from Colab for giving me this idea My blog is not yet the Ask Gary Vee show -- but who knows what the future holds. "You ask questions, I answer them- it's the ask "Richard Lucas" show. If you haven't watched an episode of Gary Vee then this may not make sense. GaryV has built two $50 mln revenue plus business through sheer hard work and energy... take him seriously.
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A busy Open Coffee Kraków this morning in Ambasada Krakowian. If I made mistakes or left you out apologies.. a blogger volunteer would be welcome. I explained the rules and idea (more detail here) everyone gets 1-2 minutes: where you present in English or Polish who you are, where you are from, what you are doing, what you want, how we can help you and what you can offer. English preferred, Polish OK. We welcome foreigners in Kraków, have a historical role as a trading centre, and are against nationalist, xenophobic trends West and especially East of Poland). We were honoured to have a French citizen with us today, and feel solidarity with all lovers of freedom today.
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It has long been a matter of regret that the fabulous engineers of AGH so seldom show up in the pro entrepreneurship and start up community, so hats off to Maciej Tyrała and Monika Wawryniak of the AGH Students’ Association for organising a round table to bring business and technology students together.
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A busy Open Coffee Kraków this foggy morning. Paweł Majka from the Krakow City Government's enterprise support department came. This is very good news. We hope it is the start of a trend. Only about 15 people at 08:00 but 43 by the time the meeting closed. If I made mistakes or left you out apologies.. a blogger volunteer would be welcome. I explained the rules and idea. (more detail here ) everyone can have 1-2 minutes: Telling others present who you are, where you are from, what you are doing, what you want, how we can help you and what you can offer. The introductions to everyone stops and networking happens at 09:00. English preferred, Polish OK. We welcome foreigners in Kraków, have a historical role as a trading centre, and are against nationalist, xenophobic trends West and especially East of Poland). It’s no problem if you are not an Entrepreneur, or a Geek. Geeks and Entrepreneurs are welcome. Anyone positive minded is welcome, whether investor, employer/employee, future business partner, clients, suppliers or someone who just wants to promote their project. People who make it by 08:00 in the morning to our events – which start on time – are a step or two ahead. Here is what was shared this morning and we had the pleasure to host:
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This was the 3rd Wintrepreneurs meeting we’ve held, and the first on the 3rd floor, the first documented meeting, and the first with a guest speaker - Angel Investor of the Year - Peter Cowley. Many thanks to Laura Jenkins and the Google team for providing the venue. The format of our meetings continues to be work in progress.
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I met Łukasz Krasoń at the TEDxWarsawSalon on the 15th September organised by Agata Dziekań and the TEDxWarsawSalon team.
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A bustling and very international Open Coffee this morning, only about 15 people at 08:00 but at least 40 by the time the meeting closed. If I made mistakes or left you out apologies.. a blogger volunteer would be welcome.
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