League of Entrepreneurs: Global Entrepreneurship Week - Scotland presents Mike Masnick, Founder of Techdirt.com, on the Open Web, Freedom and Silicon Valley

Mike Masnick, a 2X graduate of Cornell University (ILR - BS and Johnson - MBA), who founded the blog Techdirt as an MBA student-entrepreneur at the institution during his MBA studenthood, has become the most purpose-driven technology blogger and journalist in the world. Hosted initially in Scotland by the infamous Edinburgh-Stanford Link and the Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club of the University of Edinburgh in 2008, Mike returns albeit virtually for a one hour "Ask Me Anything" session with the League of Entrepreneurs, the world's leading Slack community of like-minded aspiring startup leaders.

More on Mike here in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org

Mike coined the term 'Streisand Effect'
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Mike visited Scotland in 2008 and gave this talk timhowgego.wordpress.com

Along with Chelsea Manning and Free Expression Director Annie Game, Mike was honored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) this past August of 2017 as a Pioneer. This award "recognize leaders who are extending freedom and innovation on the electronic frontier. This year’s honorees—a whistleblower, an editor, and an international freedom of expression activist—all have worked tirelessly to protect the public’s right to know". The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded by Mitch Kapor and others in 1990 as an international digital rights non-profit, and is arguably the most important organization today in the fight to keep the internet open, free, and away from government and corporate censorship and control.

This is a virtual event and will be held on November 16th (Thursday) from 4p to 5p during Global Entrepreneurship Week. Entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world are welcome to attend.

Code of Conduct:
Members are not permitted to obviously try to sell their services or investment opportunity to our entrepreneur or investor guests on the Ask Me Anything slack channel. Participants should wait their turn, add to the the discussion, provide positive feedback to their peers, ask good questions of our Silicon Valley Speakers, who are guests in our entrepreneurial community, which is global. Standard online chat protocol exists, including the limited use of CAPS for shouting, minimal graphics and emojis, good spelling and language. The 1 hour AMA sessions move rapidly, and our "Speakers" field many questions in rapid succession.

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The League of Entrepreneurs (LoE) is a virtual, global network of technology entrepreneurs that shares and communicates on the Slack platform. We believe in data, metrics, lean methodologies, and scientific, disciplined approach to building new global technology ventures rapidly. Amongst other offerings, we host monthly "Ask Me Anything" sessions with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on our Slack channel. We also are building local chapters for face-to-face intervention. Our local chapter in Edinburgh was born from CofoundersLab Scotland, founded and organized by Michael Clouser and James Schoemark. We continue same themes as envisioned by CoFoundersLab for its once-international network of local chapters, including creating a positive, motivating environment where entrepreneurs can find cofounders, in the midst of interactive meetings where entrepreneurs are encouraged to "get up and pitch" and tell us about what they are looking for not only in terms of cofounders, but also in terms of mentors, advisors, investors, and interns. We used a combination of straight presentations and Fireside Chats to engage with our guest entrepreneurs, which have included Rob Jones (formerly of Fanduel), Mike Ramsay (founder of Tivo and Silicon Valley venture capitalist with NEA), and local serial and social impact entrepreneur, Daniel Winterstein. We hold monthly meetings in Edinburgh, and are strong supporters of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), hosting and supporting numerous events in Edinburgh and Glasgow during the month of November. We also throw the annual Startups Christmas party for startup professionals, friends and family in Edinburgh, and invite those from all over Scotland to attend. We are currently growing our global network virtually, as well as seeking partners for local chapters around the world.