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The 2008 Hero's Journey Entrepreneurship Festival (HJEF) is here! Come join us on March 8th as we celebrate the ultimate Renaissance Man--Leonardo da Vinci--while saluting those marking rugged journeys in the realms of screenwriting, video games, film, academia, and robotics--robots inspired by da Vinci's designs. This year's festival includes guest speakers:
SkipPress
Screenwriter, Script Consultant
Author, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting
Mark Rosheim
Robotics Engineer
Author, Leonardo's Lost Robots
Carlo Pedretti
Author, Leonardo Da Vinci
Brooks Ferguson
Producer, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Little Women, & Titanic and Craig Titley
Writer, Cheaper by the Dozen & Scooby Doo
Flint Dille & John Zuur
Authors, The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing & Design
Chronicles of Riddick (the video game)
Transformers (the video game)
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Begun in the Spring of 2007 at Pepperdine University, the Hero’s Journey Entrepreneurship Festival (HJEF) is devoted to those embarking on their journey to launch a venture. It serves as an opportunity to network and learn the basics about incorporating your venture, financing it, protecting intellectual property, and more. Take ownership of your career and creations. Make your passion your profession!
About Hero's Journey Entrepreneurship
The moral premise of Hero’s Journey Entrepreneurship is at the heart of American’s founding—the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. –The Declaration of Independence
The Congress shall have power to . . . promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; –The United States Constitution
Therefore, every student, artist, and entrepreneur ought to be given the tools to create new ventures to protect their intellectual property, and to pursue and profit from their dreams on their “Hero's Journey“ into entrepreneurship.
The journey of an entrepreneur is not that much different that of any epic hero. From Branson to Bogle, Buffett to Neo, and Skywalker to Frodo—entrepreneurs most often start off as humble heroes who hear a call to adventure and embark on a journey with little more than a dream and that priceless faith that ideals are real. From the Odyssey to the Constitution, Fistful of Dollars to Lord of The Rings; it's all about setting out on the journey, forming a fellowship along the way, enduring the road of trials, and returning on home with newfound wealth.
The Hero’s Journey entrepreneur navigates on out keeping higher ideals over the bottom line, endures the road of trials en route to the countless showdowns with competitors and convention. They seize the sword and return home with the elixir—with the rewards gained from risking their time, their talents, their passions, and their money in penning that novel, shooting that film, and creating that venture. And so often it is all based on some simple, pervading moral premise. For Google it is “Do no evil.” For Apple it is “Think different.” For Buffett it is “Our favourite holding period is forever.” For Bogle, Wallace, and Campbell it is “institutions must serve.” For Hero’s Journey Entrepreneur, it is “own the risk, seek the reward.” Are you a Hero’s Journey entrepreneur?
