Posts by tag: storytelling
The following writing is a guest post by Roberto Espinosa, an economist by training and a seasoned sales professional who has developed his career so far in the IT market. Passionate about technology and business, he helps entrepreneurs become better public speakers and storytellers. Storytelling is definitely one of the words du jour in
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Jul
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Name: Alex Barrera
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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)+
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Last week I came back from a pretty fun conference in Rijeka, Croatia. It was my first time in Croatia and despite having Croatian Airlines losing my suitcase for a whole three days, I had an incredible time. For starters, I was really impressed by the Rock Paper Startups conference
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May
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Name: Alex Barrera
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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)+
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Sometimes it’s easier to showcase an example of a great use of organizational storytelling. This IBM movie is one of them. Actually, it’s one of the best I’ve seen so far. It’s plainly brilliant, astounding and brings focus to what it’s important. The IBM campaign is formed by two clips,
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May
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
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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)+
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Transmedia storytelling is probably one of the hottest topics within the storytelling field right now. It’s not surprising due to the proliferation of digital media channels and the natural consequence, the rise of the prosumer. What is Transmedia storytelling though? I do like the definition from Wikipedia: [is] the technique
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May
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
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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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Last week I was invited to talk about Organizational Storytelling for one of the Digital Loop episodes run by two good friends, Paul and Ivan. I was really honored to be asked to participate as I have massive respect for both. It was a lot of fun, specially trying to
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Apr
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
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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)+
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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
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Apr
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
Name: Alex Barrera
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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)+
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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,
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Apr
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Name: Alex Barrera
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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.
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Mar
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
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 / 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
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Mar
by Alex aka Chief WOWnesscloseAuthor: Alex aka Chief WOWness
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 / 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
