"Life is sacrifice and risk taking, and nothing that doesn’t entail some moderate amount of the former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not undertake a risk of real, reversible or even potentially irreversible, harm from an adventure, it is not an adventure."
—Nassim N. Taleb
'Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
For generations, young people have been given one formula for success: “Study hard, get good grades, go to the best university, and by hook or by crook, get a well-paying corporate gig that will set you up for life.”
If this formula ever worked, it’s broken now.
Millions of young people have learned the hard way that universities provide little of the practical knowledge required for success—or even getting a job—in the ever-changing, just-in-time global economy. There is no such thing as a job security.
The “lucky ones” who get positions with the big corporations quickly learn that this is a modern form of serfdom. They often feel alienated and frustrated, without any “skin in the game” giving them a piece of the brighter future.
Add to this mix increasing levels of automation, which is eliminating hundreds of millions of jobs around the world—and with AI help, it’s not just unskilled labor.
So, what should young people do? Despair? Not at all!
Remember the process economists call “creative destruction.” Yes, the old way of doing things is dying, but new ways are being born. Innovation is creating millions of new professions, spearheaded by this wonderful group of people called entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is hard work, but it gives people the chance to create whatever life they want. Entrepreneurs don’t wait for permission to live their dreams—they do it! Just look at Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, as two examples of what’s possible. And entrepreneurship offers a critical key to health, not just wealth: the ability to choose who you work with.
Ultimately, entrepreneurship is a path—arguably the best path—for achieving purpose and personal freedom in life.
CYCLE 2019 VISION: We see the entrepreneurial and creative spirit as a sustainable path to personal freedom. And personal freedom is the key to a freer society. There can be no liberty in a world in which no individuals understand, value, or exercise their freedom.
CYCLE 2019 GOAL: To help young people take the next steps in their life journey, explaining the entrepreneurial perspective and giving them practical know-how they won’t find anywhere else.
During the camp we will be conducting sessions in which participants will be working in small groups with a task of scaling real startups or mature companies, resolving challenges facing these companies. Each group will include participants with existing businesses, and, will present reports on the last day of the camp. These presentations should include various aspects of building the team chemistry, profit sharing agreements, etc. We will encourage all groups to continue working on the projects after the camp.
If you are a student, we hope you’ll join us for the latest edition of what has been a transformative, life-affirming experience for many young people over the years.
Lobo Tiggre 
is a writer, entrepreneur, and investor. He specializes in natural resource speculations– he has been teaching economics, entrepreneurship, and personal effectiveness for 15 years. Topic: business planning 101.
Virgis Daukas 
Virgis Daukas started Liberty Camps along with Steve Browne 25 years ago. Cycle is one of the projects that emerged since then. His interest is not just economic or political freedoms, but freedom from all conditionings that society, religion or state forces on individuals.
Vadim Fiddle, 
USA, has 30+ years of entrepreneurial experience, with unique knowledge of building businesses, worldwide distribution, and 10 + years of mentoring experience in several countries.
Vadim’s mission is to assist aspiring entrepreneurs via individual mentoring, promoting micro finance in developing countries, etc. During the camp, he will facilitate discussions centered on philosophy of entrepreneurship, importance of using the entrepreneurial and creative spirit as a sustainable path to freedom.
Jurgen Van Pletsen, 
Australia, a long time entrepreneur, with unique knowledge in business growth and marketing. Blink Technology, managing director. Jurgen was voted Top 50 SME Leader in Australia. Topics: Executing ideas in ever changing marketplace, building long lasting successful enterprise. Learning importance of sales execution.
John Chisholm 
CEO, John Chisholm Ventures, San Francisco-based entrepreneurial advisory and angel investment firm. Trustee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Past president/chair, worldwide MIT Alumni Association. Trustee, Santa Fe Institute. Founder & former CEO/chair of Decisive Technology (now part of Google), first company to automate surveys via the Internet. Founder & former CEO/chair of CustomerSat (now part of Confirmit), leading provider of enterprise feedback management systems. Author of Amazon best seller, “Unleash Your Inner Company: Use Passion & Perseverance to Build Your Ideal Business”. Contributor to Forbes on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, economics, education, complexity, freedom, and regulation.
Will be conducting presentation remotely.
Mitch Thrower, 
Mitch Thrower is a financier, entrepreneur, author and a 22X Ironman triathlete. He is the Founder and Chairman of Events.com, an innovative cloud-based Event Management Platform provider that provides a state of the art mobile-first SaaS application that enables the full event life-cycle, connecting event organizers and event goers. Thrower graduated from the Executive Institute at Stanford University. He has competed in 22 Ironman Triathlons, including 13 World Championships. He is the only photo journalist to ever photograph and film the Ironman Triathlon World Championships while competing in the event.
Topics: Entrepreneurship as an Endurance Sport, Overcoming Challenges, and 10 Secrets of Entrepreneurship.
Will be conducting presentation remotely.
Alex Gibb 
is a portfolio entrepreneur with investments in Ecommerce, Fintech, chatbots, machine learning, Edtech and beyond. Having spent 10+ years in financial services Alex decided to move permanently into the Angel investing space with Katalista Ventures, the first Triple Top Line focused accelerator and fund in the Baltics. Alex’s teams are established across Europe and sell to over 100 markets worldwide.
Alex’s background is broad, covering the public, private and non-governmental sectors, as well as three masters degrees. Alex is passionate about the revolutionary impact of the internet and the possibilities to disrupt business as we know it. .
Yagub Rahimov
is the CEO and the Founding Partner at 7Marketz Group, the leading global blockchain and Fintech media holding.
Starting his FinTech career at the age of 16, Yagub has established multiple companies with a special focus on alternative investment channels and machine learning. He is one of the early Bitcoin and Blockchain technology investors, with his first cryptocurrency purchase in July 2009. Yagub has been consulting and mentoring a select list of top quality blockchain startups, as well as investing in them. He has a vision that machine learning combined with the Blockchain technology will define the future of the FinTech ecosystem, bringing the much needed transparency.
Algirdas Orantas
is a Chairman of the board of Critical, a design community. it is critical thinking, exploration of possibilities. in order to improve and create meaningful changes for people, for society and our clients, it challenges traditional thinking habits. Algirdas is involved in strategy development and supervising, mentoring team leaders, facilitating partnerships.
Algirdas is also the owner of Etiquette, a strategic agency focusing on package design and branding, where he works on dream team basis, hosting challenge-hungry explorers who are not afraid to say “I haven’t got the answer yet” and ready to learn as well as experiment.
