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..
Read MoreThis 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.
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.
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.
Read MoreI'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?"
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreJust 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.
Read MoreI 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 More"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.
Read MoreAt 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
Read MoreIf 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. ...
As Curator of TEDxKazimierz I know that the process by which we allocate tickets is a source of many questions, much special pleading and miscomprehension. This post explains What we do and why we do it, and gives tips for those who are keen to improve their chances of getting a ticket.
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.
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,
Read MoreMost of the information in this article comes from an interview with Jenny Chen of WalktheChat (details below). Thanks to her for sharing her time.
Read MoreMichal 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 MoreTowards 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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