Posts by category: storytelling
24
Apr
by Alex aka Chief WOWness
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Name: Alex Barrera
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Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
in / storytelling
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Some weeks ago I had someone in the audience asking me the following question: “Isn’t there too many people trying to pitch their product with a story that it’s better that you differentiate yourself by not using stories at all?”. I had to agree with him. The problem is, once
04
Apr
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
in / storytelling
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One of the most common questions I get when I give a talk on storytelling for start-ups is how to expand the story all the way to the financial slides or business model slides. It seems unavoidable to be boring and dull while walking over those concepts. It is indeed,
02
Apr
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
in / corporate / storytelling
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Storytelling is one of those abilities that are really hard to sell, specially in a corporate setting. There are two main reasons. The first one is what I call, the “Once upon a time” issue. Most people, when exposed to the concept of storytelling can only think about fairy tales.
21
Mar
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
in / corporate / storytelling
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I believe few people truly understand the role of the storyteller. There is much written about the art of storytelling, but few people devote a single line to the person behind the curtain. Telling stories is becoming more and more important in any organization, but we still don’t understand what
19
Mar
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
in / storytelling / zen
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I recently was going through a company’s product, trying to understand how it worked and how could we tell a good story about it. The product was deeply technical. For those of you that have ever talked with an engineer, you probably know how the conversation looked like. While I’m
04
Mar
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
in / Education / storytelling
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I recently gave one of my storytelling workshops for start-ups online through The Next Web Academy. While I do many things online, this is the first time I gave a webinar and it was quite an interesting experience. We used GoToMeeting as the webinar software and while it’s very robust
28
Feb
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
in / innovation / storytelling
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Fascinating TED talk by neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe on the brain region that allows us to understand what others have in their minds, a field also know as Theory of Mind (ToM). I’m guessing you could say, this is the storyteller brain region 😉
08
Feb
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
in / press42 / storytelling
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One of the things I’ve been wanting to do this year has been scaling out the storytelling workshop. I’ve been doing it actively during the past year in different countries and different audiences. Everyone loves it but many tell me they would love to attend if it was just the
28
Jan
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
in / branding / storytelling
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The ancient archetype of hero’s journey in visual format. As the previous post, stunning visuals.
26
Jan
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
Email: [email protected]
Site: https://plus.google.com/110163117884995501916/posts/p/pub
About: CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.See Authors Posts (98)+
in / marketing / storytelling
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