“36 Hour Start-Up.â€
Background.
The long-term plan for The Do Lectures is to start a school for entrepreneurs. A school where you go to start your start-up. On a farm that grows companies instead of food. An ideas farm. An accelerator of great business ideas.
Where you learn by doing and not by reading. And the best teacher of all is the business that you start.
The incubator school will guide you
from your idea, your strategy, to branding it, to building it, to scaling it, to protecting it, to pitching it, to help finding funding for it.
You will have people guiding you have started start-ups. Real practical experience in a fast moving world. Our contacts from doing The Do Lectures give us contacts with some of the most amazing start-ups/people in the world.
The school will choose who attends, and will pay them a small fee to attend. The term will be 12 weeks. In return, we will get a small stake in your start-up, so we have a very good reason to make you succeed. We believe in business and how it can change the world for the better, so the school will be a business too.
The school will focus on businesses that use the internet to change the world.
The ‘36 hour start up is our way of of quickly beta testing the incubator school and accelerate the learning. That will help us start a school sooner rather than later. It will be a one-off event. It will be teach us if this will work. Or if it will fail. But it will do so at speed.
“36 hour start upâ€.
 Disclaimer:
If you like your sleep, this course is not for you. There will be no sleep. If you like working on your own, this course is not for you. If you like agreeing with everyone, this course is not for you. If you like a nice relaxed easy-going environment, this course is not for you. If you don’t like being challenged, stressed, up against it, this course is not for you. If you don’t like pizza at 4am, this course is probably not for you either.
Oh and by the way, trust us, we have never done this before.
Date: Mid May. Ish.
It will start on a Friday morning at 9am. And it will end 9pm Saturday evening.
The will be no
Fee to pay. There will be no more than 10 places. There will be mentors in the shed. And there will be other mentors via Skype all through the night.
More details will follow. But right now, you don’t have to do anything. Apart from think about why we should pick you to attend.
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My new start-up Breathe Sync needs your help.
See http://www.breathesync.com/2012/07/why-how-when-breathe-sync/ for more.
Checklist
Inspiration (check)
Drive (Check)
A great idea (Check)
Brand Plan (Check)
Strength (Check)
A BIG Smile (Check)
Website (Check)
Not the foggiest clue how to juggle everything (check)
See you there?
Lucy
Great to hear. A few questions:
Will this be in wales, or the us? Austin is a nice place
Is this primarily for individuals or teams?
Thanks!
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This sounds utterly epic. David Hieatt, you truly have a way with words. Bloody good job you’re in marketing.
Pizza at 4am? I’m sold
Just need to pick one of the ideas swimming round in my head to focus on…
I have too many ideas in my head, one i am trying to get off the ground is a boot rack for a mx5. This is a niche idea on the example of Tim Ferris princible of defining your customer.
I would love to start a business but keep thinking of diffrent ideas.
I like mechanics, pushbikes, motogp, teaching and working with others.
I thought of maybe starting a cycle school, mechanics workshop with benches that you go in and work on your own bike with the help of professionals if you need it. Hire a bench. Have a cafe with great perculator coffee brewing in the backgrond and music playing from a quad amp with tannoy speakers to make the place a nice hang out aswell.
I live in Croydon and the price of property is so high but on the flip side there are lots of bikers around this way.
In my career I have been a motorcycle mechanic, Petrol station manager, Telecom engineer, Social worker in a Secure unit, Noc engineer To name a few jobs and the skills:
I have built a brick arch, brick wall and the front drive to my house with my dad, Installed central heating, electrics, ethernet network, sanded the floors, decorated the house from top to bottom.
I am fifty though
Vinnychoff
My last big idea was an Inflatable Church I had it made and took it to festivals http://www.theinflatablechurch.com it’s been up and down ever since.
Also entered into a bar with a corporate but that didn’t work out http://www.cardiffartsinstitute.org so lessons learned.
Now 6 years on I am trying to get out of the traffic jam, to take an alternative route..
I have got the van it’s the purple and cream bedford in the Pinterest board below.
It’s actually in a garage in West Wales being converted to LPG.
http://pinterest.com/mattthehats/the-travelling-cafe-project/
I like hot dogs and tamworth pigs and am thinking about ‘Gourmet Hot Dogs’ and homemade toppings with freshly baked rolls.
Looking for help and excited by the idea
I want in – get in contact for a chat
Matt The Hat
PS: I live in Cardiff