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23 Reasons to be at Do Start-Up.

1, You want to start something.

2, You want to change something.

3, You want to

disrupt something.

4, And you can’t wait anymore.

5, You don’t do conferences.

6, You don’t do name tags.

7, You don’t do conferences halls.

8, You don’t do convention.

9, The Broadband is awful. And we will do our best to keep it that way.

10, It’s hard to get to.

It will help you leave where you are.

11, The magic that happens here is not filmed.

12, The workshops are not filmed.

13, The pitches are not filmed.

14, The music is not filmed.

15, You will have conversations that will never be forgotten.

16, Yes, there are other people out there like you.

17, It gets cold. You will go home smelling of smoke. No bad thing.

18, You will swim in rivers and run on mountains.

19, You will build a company in 72 hours.

20, You will know what it’s like to be put in a food blender.

21, You will feel tired, challenged but alive.

22, This will change you.

23, Listen to that noise. It’s a starter pistol going off in your head.

Do Start-Up. April 25th-28th 2013.

Email: Anna.thomas@thedolectures.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday, 5th November, 2012

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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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Sunday, 4th November, 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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Learning to not be liked

Years of schooling, parenting and mass media nurture the importance of conformity. The lovely thing about conformity is that at worst, if you do it badly, people just won’t won’t notice you; there will be no snide comments, no criticism and no risk of looking silly.

There is of course, the downside. You won’t make much impact, will miss out on conversations with the most interesting people in the room, and worst of all, you’ll miss out on realising that to make a mark means that some, or many, will despise you for standing for what you do.

Sooner or later, we get old and infirm, and our faculties weaken. The smart money says that it’s good to start making that mark as you soon as you know things need to change. Leave hesitation and doubt behind, and step out of the shadows. Who knows what might happen if a few more tens of thousands had the courage and insight that Eden Project creator Tim Smit describes in this article.

Tim Smit: the Eden project’s impassioned gardener | Business | The Guardian.

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Sunday, 13th March, 2011

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Taking the piss out of hydrogen? Not any more

Pee power could fuel hydrogen cars | Environment | guardian.co.uk.

There’s a lot of smart development, design and thinking happening on hydrogen, and the role that it has an energy storage medium for a carbon future. The neat thing about unhooking hydrogen from urine is that the hydrogen isn’t stuck as tightly in ammonia molecules as it is in water.

Have a look at Hugo Spowers’ www.riversimple.com hydrogen powered car to see what the solution might look like.

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Wednesday, 9th March, 2011

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Sharing leadership

No More Heroes: Distributed Leadership | Management Innovation eXchange.

Leadership is no longer the role of one person. It’s time to start  sharing the lead, and the role of leadership, throughout the whole organisation. Companies in the front pack, such as WL Gore, think it’s essential. After all, it’s what nature’s been doing for nearly 4 billion years.

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World’s economic model is environmental suicide | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Ban Ki-moon: Worlds economic model is environmental suicide | Environment | guardian.co.uk.

The Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon said at Davos that “we need a revolution” to create a sustainable future. He’s not the only one to know that, and it’s good to see people at the top of the UN talking sense about speed and scale.

I guess then, that it’s time to stoke up the fires at the Do camp and getting our heads around the scale of shift that we can initiate when we push together, focused on the same direction. As a start point, Matt Hart from Do 10 and a bunch of us at TYF are shaping up a plan to breath some oxygen onto fresh sparks, by teaching the spirit of Do to 100,000 school pupils in the the next 18 months, face to face. On the way, we’ll teach them innovation 101 and give them a few real time business and social challenges to get stuck into.

If you can help us, drop by.

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Saturday, 29th January, 2011

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Good for Nothing

Good for Nothing.

Dan Burgess and conspirators at the Pipeline Project created Good for Nothing as an accelerator for social enterprises. 60 people gave £75k worth of their time for free to help three fledgling businesses earn their wings.

How about one of these in each major city or county in the UK, sharing ideas, with Do Lectures for a tapestry of inspiration. Ideas on a postcard…

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Wednesday, 12th January, 2011

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Gerald Miles’ veggie magic

Gerald Miles, spoke from the heart at Do 09. He grows vegetables the same way. This bag is full of 7kg of parsnip, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, leek, kale and swede. All for £7.50 as part of the Caerhys Organic Community Agriculture project. Activism on a plate

I’m no Fat Bastard: Are personal goals the cure for the economy?

In a time of economic recession, it seems to be politically correct to table your ambitions in an effort to show gratitude for your past accomplishments and your present status in life.  It’s not uncommon for me to talk to someone here in the United States that isn’t grateful for their current job in the mist of record unemployment.  I think that is great.

On the other hand, when expressing my desire to pursue a better jobs or a bigger dream, I’m labeled ungrateful for my current position.  This is horrible.  Are we really saying that during tough times on a national level we should give up on our personal dreams of reaching our full potential?

What if we inspired more people to want more out of life during a recession?  Better relationships, better education, better family time, or a better lifestyle.  How valuable are those dream?  Think about it. If the world is already in a recession, encouraging people to dream less and be satified only creates a larger recession.  Demand for products and services are what drive the economy.  So if we lower demand on the most basic level (our dreams), aren’t we in affect pouring gasoline on the fires of recession raging in the economy?

Wanting more doesn’t mean that I’m ungrateful for what I have; it means that I want more than I already have.  I know my potential and my current accomplishments are just the result of what I could do yesterday.  And those experiences have put me in a position to improve my results going forward.  It’s important to always be seeking to have your full potential manifest itself daily, while being grateful for the opportunity go after it.

More is never a bad thing when it comes to bettering yourself, your relationships, your experiences, your knowledge, your wealth, and your impact on the world.  Quite frankly, I think that the person who says they have enough is being selfish by not sharing his full potential with the world around him.

Want more today. Do more tomorrow.

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