This blog post is to go with my podcast interview with Russell Hicks - which goes live today. There will be the first airing of my new pre-roll, a new 'old' music voice over, and very different content. I was very, very pleased to have Russell on the show and it was a great pleasure to have a long conversation with a comedian whose work I genuinely admire.
So, who is Russell? Russell Hicks is a successful American Standup Comedian who lives and works mainly in the UK.
Read MoreI’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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThis 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:
Read MoreTEDx 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.
I recently sent him - on my brother Edward Lucas's recommendation - details of a correspondence about how badly the UK media production industry may be damaged when Theresa May's government leads the UK out of the Single European Market. He invited me to write a piece about why I am applying to be Polish.
Read MoreUntil yesterday I haven't been to a concentration camp site since I went to the Dachau site in Bavaria in 1984. That terrible and profound experience cemented my commitment to tolerance and freedom that has stayed with me to this day.
Read MoreMateusz 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.
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.
Read More1. 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
Read MoreTEDxWarsaw 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.
Read MoreRalph Talmont asked me if I wanted a couple of minutes on the stage at TEDxWarsaw 2015 In a two minute annoucement a lot gets left out. Lots of updates about the event itself and who spoke are here Thanks to Ewelina and Suzane from TEDxKazimierz team for their input into my talk, and who heard my nervous preparation the day before..
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