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You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth
interdisciplinary series on Evolution,
Complexity and Cognition
(ECCO 2017-2018)
Time: Friday December 15, 14h-16h
Place: room D.1.07, VUB
The Idealists -- A better world through
ideas
Abstract:
The internet has connected all our minds and
now that we share almost all of our knowledge we progress faster than
ever.
However our best piece of knowledge, our
million dollar ideas, are not shared.
I have always believed that every person has
one such golden idea and I've found everyone cherishes thie idea as
their most prized possession. Their ticket out of their current
life. Their own personal lottery ticket.
It's the one thing they never share, not even
with their best friends, afraid that someone will steal it and take
away their key to a better life.
However, because most people don't have the
means, talent, drive or most importantly the guts to bring their
golden idea to life as an entrepreneur these ideas are literally taken
to the grave.
At this very moment there are still roughly 7
billion golden ideas around. Ideas that could change our world,
our future and every year only a few million are brought to life by
people who actually start up a company and this is what I am here to
change.
We will do this by founding the first real
ideas-factory.
A superincubator where to people can safetly
send their golden idea and after we have thoroughly checked and
validated it we are going to actually build a company for the
idea.
Over the last 2 years I have perfected the
blueprint for The Idealists, by reading every possible scientific
paper and book on idea-selection and how to most successfully grow
companies from start-up to grow-up.
Next to that I've joined an incubator with one
of my companies and perfected every possible step in The Idealists
process with experts such as a patent and IP expert, subsidy experts,
design experts, etc. And I think that the ideas and reserach you
have developed at the Global Brain Institute and VUB could be the
missing piece to complete the puzzle that is our blueprint and we
would love to be a practical test ground for most of your
ideas!
Short Bio:
I've helped set-up and run over 500 hairsalons
worldwide and built a sneaker company and a rating & dating-app
from scratch.
In the coming years I want to, next to turning
Yes Salons into a global brand and turn IllUMI and Attractiv into a
global hypes change the wrold for the better with The
Idealists.
I'm just a person that is incredibly creative
but at the same time extremely goal driven. I'm an optimist that
never gives up and because I'm always full of ideas find ways even
when there are none. I work extremely hard, but to me it doesn't
feel like work. It's a way of life.
I believe in decentralization and
cell-division and am an apt believer of giving people all the tools
and insights and getting out of their way in order to have them
excel.
I want to put right what is wrong in the world
and believe that ideas are the key to getting this done. I am
not against capitalism and individualism, but believe that we are
currently venturing beyond the limits of both and that it's now time
for an idea-revolution (where we bring all dormant ideas that make
lives better and the world more fair to life and to attention and thus
together make the world a better place through all of our
ideas).
Upcoming Seminars:
The second half of the seminar series will start in the Winter of
2018.
Thank you to all of the presenters who provided us with so many
new ideas, and thank you to all of the people who attended and made
this seminar series possible.
--
Cadell
