David

The Do Lectures -Co Founder Don't just stand there, Do something - Dick Dastardly.

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Everyone has two films in them.

 

 

Imagine on your deathbed you were able to see two films of your life: One showed highlights of what you actually achieved. And then the other showed highlights of what you could have achieved with your ability, your talent, the opportunities that came your way etc.  

It

would probably bring you to tears to know what else you could have done. The heights you could have climbed. The people you could have met. The races you could have run. The ideas you could have made happen. The change you could have made.  If only when

you had come to the edge, you hadn’t taken that step back to safety.

If you had just kept going after failing that one time. If only you had believed in that crazy dumb idea enough to tell the world about it.  Yes, if only you hadn’t, well, played so damn small.  

The Do Lectures.  

Here To narrow the gap between the ‘Two Films’.    

The Spring Do ‘Start-Up’.  April 25-29th 2012.   

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Remember who gave you your first break….

 

No one forgets that person, do they?

They saw something in you, when perhaps no one else did.

And oh boy, were you grateful to them.

That first rung on the ladder may be equally spaced with all the others, but it doesn’t feel that way when you are starting out.

So now maybe you are in a position to give someone his or her lucky break.

The ‘Giving Chair’ programme is way for you and your company to do that.

Quite simply, you buy a ticket for The Do Lectures Start-Up Event (April 25-28th) and we give that ticket to a young remarkable entrepreneurial minded person.

At the Do Start-Up they will have 3 days of listening to 20 amazing speakers talking about starting a business. They will have access to 30 Skype video mentors. And be viagra cheap a part of 10 workshops at the event. And they will be a part of team that starts a company in the 3 days they are there. There is no event like it, for sure. And there is no experience like it either. The Guardian voted it in the top ten ideas festivals in the world along with Ted and Burning Man.

As part of the ‘Giving Chair’ Programme we will get an artist to paint the chair with your name or company name on the back of the chair, so everyone knows that you paid for that young person to be at the event.

After the event is finished, the chair will go into the auction to raise money for The Do Lectures.

Then after the event the student will come to your business and do a talk about what they learned at The Do Lectures. So your people get to learn what they have learnt too. They will

show you the film that they made of their time there too.

But more than anything else, you can help someone on that first rung of a ladder.

Just as someone did for you.

If you or your company would like to be part of the Giving Chair Programme, please email: anna.thomas@thedolectures.co.uk

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Wednesday, 31st October, 2012

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“36 Hour Start-Up.”

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 up”.

 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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