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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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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So it’s early Sunday morning and TEDxKraków came to a close yesterday. Not everyone knows about TED and TEDx. A very successful businessman and friend called John told me just last week - "I really must look into this TEDx thing". Here is a short introduction about TED and TEDx by Chris Anderson.
For my friend John maybe the TED journey lies ahead (He gave a talk at TEDxKazimierz in 2017).
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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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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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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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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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Ralph 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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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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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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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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