Quick note from Rob & Dom: We’re really thrilled that Adele is joining us in our mission to build a platform that helps every corporate professional in the world make exciting career transitions and find work they love. We joke that Adele is Esc’s first groupie but in all honestly she is the best person [...]
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A massive thank you to George from Kicktable for an honest, amusing, inspiring and informative talk and Q&A at this week’s Esc Wednesday. Great buzz in the room and lots of exciting new connections made as well. Here is what we learnt: Be useful - If you’re searching for that idea to start a business around, [...]
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I regularly meet with an old school friend to discuss business ideas and I’m sure we’ve come up with some winners. The question is finding the ones we’re really passionate about. If you have an idea, share it right now as you are reading this. Stop and drop an e-mail to a friend, someone with [...]
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Have you ever done something that makes everyone you know shake their heads in disbelief? For me the first one that springs to mind was when I put the kettle on the stove and lit the gas. I only remembered it was an electic kettle made of plastic when it set on fire. Shake shake. [...]
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Please come to our next Escape Meetup at the Adam Street Entrepreneurs Club in central London after work on Tuesday 24th January. To attend please click here. The first Escape meetup of 2012 If you are reading this the chances are that you’re a professional of some sort. The fact that you’re on Esc means that you are probably [...]
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“It is impossible, obviously, to believe that anyone’s life is pre-destined – but who knows what is programmed into an individual’s chromosomes, into their DNA? Perhaps each of us, irrespective of class and other variables, is born with a propensity towards a certain kind of living. Each of us has a code which, in the [...]
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5 Things Adele Learned from Last Night’s Esc Wednesday: ‘How we built our careers around our passions’ Last night deep underground in London’s Adam Street Club, Ben Keene and Dave Cornthwaite, told us their stories. One of them rented a Fijian island. The other skateboarded from one coast of Australia to another. As you do. [...]
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Mikey and I went to an awesome talk at General Assemb.ly in New York this week. Called ‘Building Something People Love’ and given by a hugely impressive, enthusiastic and genuine Alexis Ohanian one of the Reddit founders. We left buzzing with ideas for how to do things differently, do things that interest people, do things that engage [...]
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Hello and thanks for clicking through to this post. If you’re reading this you’ve probably just joined Escape the City and registered a basic account. A basic account gives you access to our Opportunities section and (if you subscribed) will also mean that you receive our weekly ‘Top 10 Opportunities’ email newsletter. You are currently on [...]
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When we started Escape the City we envisaged creating a community whereby people could self-organise and (without needing our involvement) use the platform to meet each other and do great things together. So you can imagine our excitement when we heard about the Tel Aviv Meetup last week. This is what it’s all about!! Read [...]
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We’ve got a really exciting evening planned for November’s Esc Wednesday. Our special guests are Ben Keene and Dave Cornthwaite. Both are Esc Heroes, both have spoken at previous Esc events and both single-mindedly live their lives on their own terms. The title of the evening’s talk is: ‘How we built our careers around our [...]
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On Wednesday night Adele Barlow really kindly hosted our first of a new type of Esc event in London – a Meetup at Adam Street. Over 240 people RSVP’d and by all accounts it was a really useful, inspirational and fun evening. Check out the comments thread! Check out the photos. Our Meetups are different from [...]
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My name’s Adele and I run Step One (we make websites for startups), and help organisations with their social media. We blog here. I’ll be at the Escape the City London Meetup tonight, along with Alex O’Byrne and Chris Mooney – Alex is fantastic to talk to about development, apps, and escaping the city, and [...]
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Escape the City is a global community but London is where we were born. Although a lot of Esc activity happens online, you really see the community come to life when we meet up offline. Adam Street are fantastic hosts for our London-based Esc Meetups and Esc Wednesdays and we wanted to use this post to [...]
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Hello everyone, As you will know if you have spent any time on the Escape the City website… … or watched our video… … or read our manifesto… … or read our About Us… Esc’s concept is simple: 1. We believe that there is more to life than doing work that doesn’t matter to you in [...]
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All our life we jump through hoops. Often without asking why. It’s easy to feel stuck – a small cog in a big machine. It doesn’t have to be like this. Don’t waste your life living someone else’s. Don’t wait for permission. Life is too short to do work that doesn’t matter to you. Want [...]
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Hello everyone. Here is the UK and International version of your Monday newsletter. Below are the Top 10 Opportunities. You can view the full newsletter in your browser by clicking here. Escape of the Week – Coral Lodge 15.41, Moçambique SENIOR MANAGEMENT COUPLE - Ilha de Moçambique Work in paradise: develop a 5-star beach lodge and establish [...]
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Please come to our next evening Meetup at the Adam Street Entrepreneurs Club in central London after work on Wednesday 26th October. All Esc members who attend this Meetup on Wed 26th October will receive a complimentary year’s free evening membership at Adam Street Club. See below. To attend please click here. This month’s theme: Start-ups & the [...]
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So we’ve now been in New York for a week. It’s pretty surreal and extremely exciting. We’ll be here until Christmas – helping Mikey grow the US escapee community and working our behinds off on the website. I thought I would write a quick post reflecting on what it feels like to have started a [...]
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As those of you who follow Esc will know, we want to explore the ideas around the phenomenon of people ‘escaping the city’ with the aim of helping more corporate professionals to make brave and exciting transitions. There is certainly no single way of understanding all the various strands related to our concept (jobs, money, [...]
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