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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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.
Introduction
Alumni are "low hanging fruit" - an under used group who can be mobilized to good purposes. It's time for a revolution in alumni/student/pupil relations with respect to support of entrepreneurship. North Americans tend to be good at this - Europeans not yet. Every entrepreneur is an alumni of somewhere. Even a solopreneur that operates their business completely by themselves has learned what they know from somewhere.
Mateusz Paszkiewicz lecture at Social Media Thursday in Bialystok
I tracked down Mateusz as a result of my search for Snapchat experts. He made clear that Snapchat is not his "only thing" but this interview is focussed on Snapchat. My questions in bold
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I get a version of this kind of note from time to time. I have taken the worst bits from different e-mails and messages I receive to make something truly awful. I hope this post encourages those who write to investors to reflect on their approach. This post tells your what I think and feel, and what I write back (not the same) , and offers some reflections.
When I was approached by Toptal, a blue chip and highly successful outsourcing firm backed by top VCs to host a post from their blog, I speculated about how Kraków might look through the eyes of their community,
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Michal Kalina?-?former Social Media specialist at one of Krakow's most dynamic seed funds Innovation Nest has been Snapchatting for a while during his travels. Now he's showing backstage of creating his web&mobile development company Kolektiv.
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I won't analyse other than to note that
- he has a BIG vision
- he is aiming for 500 million monthly users.
-he loves his job
1. Support, attend and partner with regular monthly or more frequent monthly events and meetups across Poland (not just Warsaw) - with satellite events/monthly meetup like Open Coffee Krakow OpenCoffeeKRK (that used to take place in Google For Entrepreneurs Krakow ) and events Hive KrakSpot Startup Stage and those posted on #OMGKRK - Kraków's startup community and Crossweb - wszystkie Barcampy, spotkania i konferencje
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When Google for Entrepreneurs announced that it was leaving Kraków and opening its Campus in Warsaw many people in Kraków Startup Commmnity were a bit disappointed. However, it is better that Google Campus in in Poland than elsewhere, and as Dawid Ostrowski of Google Developers Relations pointed out Krakow has a lot of lessons to share in terms of building a dynamic startup community.
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At SKK - the company I founded and have returned to run in the last few months, - I've been thinking and researching our innovation processes. When I studied economics in the 1980s at Cambridge (UK), we learned how Karl Marx argued that the four drivers of the capitalist system were competition, capital mobility, the profit motive and technological progress. Marx was wrong about many things, and the dreadful impact of his ideas on world history is hard to overstate, but his insights about the importance of technological change to business are important. Businesses that do not innovate effectively will die.
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TEDxWarsaw 2015 on 18th May - was a memorable experience. As always TEDx-es live by the quality of their speakers. The wonderful venue of Teatr Polski only added to the sense of quality.
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I've been telling friends about the power of podcasting for many months. I grew up in a household in Oxford England with no TV, but where the BBC radio was always on. The money I earned as a 9-10 year old went on a radio which cost GBP20 in 1976, about GBP100 in today's devalued pounds.The great thing about radio compared to TV/film is that the pictures are so much better.
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I definitely want to add Callpage, led by Ross Knap from Krakow to the list. Vivid-Q (based in Cambridge and London), has Aleksandra Pedraszewska is a co founder and squeaks in. Archdesk.co.uk led by Michal Mojzesz already had a mention, but they are now funded, and they continue to be a very high potential Polish Startup. Reality Games led by Zbigniew Woźnowski has rapidly growing revenue and has been pouring money into products that could be make 2019 a year of incredible success.
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I was looking for an presentation on an old hard drive and found this - I wrote it in 2008, edited in 2010. There has been a lot of progress in the last 5 years, but much of this is still relevant, and this is a project that will never, ever be over and done with. It's curious how some of the topics and websites that were relevant back then are just gone now.
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I don't normally post meeting summaries of Open Coffee Krakow meetings but today I am to show what a dynamic atmosphere we have here in Kraków, I noted 23 useful announcements.
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I often listen to John's daily interview with entrepreneurs here and wanted to interview him. He is as interesting as the guys he interviews, and we can learn from his success. Thanks to him for the time
He responded with an audio interview,which I have put on Soundcloud here
I'll try to add questions in my own voice later but for now we have him asking the questions you can see below and here
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